Today’s student is very aware of social issues on both local and global levels: human trafficking, poverty, gender identity, race, educational disparities, and politics to name a few. Advocates, community organizers, educators, and social workers living and working in urban contexts, in particular, have a greater awareness that their responsibility includes care for the marginalized and engagement of pressing community issues. The Biblical Justice Certificate provides the foundations and flexibility to meet the aspirations of those seeking justice for their cities.
You will articulate culturally relevant biblical and theological frameworks for addressing social issues.
You will reach a proficiency in your aptitude to study current social trends.
You will identify the challenges posed by contemporary culture to Christian belief and practice.
You will design appropriate seminars addressing social concerns in your community for community and church leaders.
These four courses are designed to provide a biblical, theological, and missiological foundation for your engagement in issues of justice.
EMC Library, Biblical Justice
An introduction to the ministry of social justice from biblical, historical, missiological and contemporary points of view. This course will provide the student with a biblical paradigm to engage the topic of social justice in our neighborhoods.
$200
EMC Library
Race and ethnic relations prepares learners for the likelihood of increasing interracial and interethnic contact and helps them grow in their awareness of the level of radicalized attitudes and experiences in their sphere of contact and influence.
$200
An introductory course for those new to diaspora and refugee ministry. The learning experience touches on various contemporary refugee crises as well as some prominent historical and biblical movements, and types of refugee movements.
$200
Personal Enrichment, Free Courses, Biblical Justice
You'll learn about critical social theories and the various ways in which Christians have understood them. We focus special attention on critical race theory and how its application as a tool has produced both positive and negative effects.
Free
Personal Enrichment, Biblical Justice
This eight-week study looks at God’s mandate to work for justice and mercy, with a focus on what Jesus says about this topic in the book of Luke. It addresses two main questions. First, what is justice? And, secondly, what is our obligation?
$25
Join Dr. Ronald Hesselgrave as he facilitates a conversation of biblical justice through the third gospel
