Required texts

Anderson, H. & Foley, E. (2001). Mighty Stories and Dangerous Rituals: Weaving Together the Human and the Divine. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Hess, M. (2005). Engaging Technology in Theological Education: All that we can’t leave behind. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.

Haggis, P. (2004). Crash. DVD available on reserve in the library and at local video rental stores.

Recommended texts

Aaron, Charles. “Black like them,” in Utne Reader, March-April 1999, pp. 68-73. Originally printed in Spin Magazine, November 1998.

Anderson, E. Byron. “O for a heart to praise my God”: Hymning the self before God.” In Liturgy and the Moral Self, edited by Anderson, E. and Morrill, B. The Liturgical Press, Collegeville, 1998. pp. 111-1125.

Bass, D. (1997). Practicing Our Faith. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (Especially the chapter on discernment.)

Bevans, S. (2002). Models of Contextual Theology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Blair. C. (2001). The Art of Teaching the Bible. Louisville, KY: Geneva Press.

Blood, R. (2002). The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining your Weblog., Perseus Books.

Bondi, Roberta. (1998). “Praying the Lord’s Prayer: Truthfulness, intercessory prayer, and formation in love,” in Liturgy and the Moral Self, edited by Anderson, E. and Morrill, B. The Liturgical Press, Collegeville, pp. 153-167.

Boyd, Danah. (2007). "Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace ." Apophenia Blog Essay. June 24 . http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html

Brookfield, S. (2006). The Skillful Teacher. San Francisco: Harper & Row.

Cormode, S. (2002)."Multi-layered leadership: The Christian leader as builder, shepherd, gardener," in Journal of Religious Leadership, Vol. 1, #2, pp. 69 - 104.

Johnston, R. (2000). Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue. Grand Rapids: Baker.

McCloud, S. (1993). Understanding comics. New York: Harper Perennial. Chapter two, pp.24-59.

Medrano, A. (2004). “Making religious media: Notes from the field,” in Belief in Media. Hess, Horsfield and Medrano (eds.), Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing.

Nakamura, L. (2002). Cybertypes: Race, ethnicity and identity on the internet. New York: Routledge.

Palmer, P. (1983). To Know As We Are Known. San Francisco: Harper & Row.

Palmer, P. (1998). The Courage to Teach. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Pungente, J. and Williams, M. (2004). Finding God in the Dark. Boston: Pauline Books.

Tanner, K. (1997) Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

Weinberger, D. (2002). Small Pieces Loosely Joined. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing. Additional explorations available at: http://www.smallpieces.com/.