Bible with Adults
This is a web page developed as an adjunct to a class taught at Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, MN. Please be advised: these sites are contextualized in presentations, and are not meant to be either definitive or endorsed without critical reflection.
How do we help to open up the book of our faith with adults?
This course, team-taught by Mary Hess and Richard Nysse, fulfills the middler level IC requirement. A syllabus is available here.
Required reading
- Learning to listen, learning to teach by Jane Vella
- Daniel (Westminster Bible Companion), by Choong-Leong Seow
- Conversations with Scripture: Daniel, by Desueza and Jones
Then choose from a list of books
- The Bible Made Impossible, by C. Smith
- Reading the Bible with the Damned, by B. Ekblad
- Soul Stories, by A. Wimberly
- Reading Other-wise, by G. West
- Democratizing Biblical Studies, by E. Schussler-Fiorenza
Useful handouts we might use (some are from years past)
- I/C questions
- Basic curriculum questions
- Trio of triads
- Diane’s ppt on challenges and visions
- Faith 20/20 scenarios
- Emmaus methods devotional
- Reading devotionally (instructions)
- No Prep Bible Study (Shallue)
- Bible study methods
- Backwards Design
- Questions gone bad
- Scott Cormode on “multi-layered leadership”
- “Deep calls to deep” (scriptural reasoning)
- Analyzing an adult learning event . Diane’s powerpoint on devotional reading
- Diane’s ppt on historical study
- Diane’s notes on historical study
- Diane’s handout on literary study
- Diane’s ppt on literary study
- Lutheran Theological study
- Theological reading ppt
- Lectio/visio divina
- Art sites
Video presentations
- Rolf Jacobson at Jubilee
- Deanna Thompson at Jubilee
- Diane Jacobson interviewing Eugene Peterson
- Abbot Klassen on lectio divina
Various curriculum/prayer resources
Other resources
- WorkingPreacher.org
- TextWeek.com
- Biblical art
- ElectronicNTResources
- Feautor.org
- Sermonspice (commercial videos)
- AllPosters (commercial art)
Engaging biblical themes in popular culture
- Motion pictures related to aging and adult development
- The New Media Bible
- social theory and pop culture
- HollywoodJesus
- Teaching the Bible through pop culture
- Lights, camera, faith!
Adult learning
- Kegan’s own handout on the five orders of mind
- Berger handout on key ideas in Kegan’s thought
- An interview with Robert Kegan
- Another interview with Robert Kegan
- A transcript of a Kegan address to an Episcopal church meeting
- David Orr’s essay
- Parker Palmer’s essay
- More diagram
- Mary’s convocation lecture from 2002
- Mary’s Hein-Fry lecture
Adult spirituality
- Definitions of religious education and spirituality
- Dykstra on “collaborative inquiry” . Self-care inventory
- Christian leaders website
- The Alban Institute report on leadership
- Other Alban reports
- Graceful aging bibliography
- Tisdale on adult spirituality
A motley assortment
- Resources for creating safe spaces (developed by the Episcopal Church’s program of ministry with young people)
- Talking Together As Christians About Tough Social Issues (a guide developed by the ELCA)
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