Learn From Bishop Justin and Anglican Studies

Grab this opportunity to learn from Bishop Justin about Being Church.  

Being Church will explore what it means to be ‘Church’.  

The first half of the course unpacks Scripture, theology, church history and our Anglican story in Aotearoa.  

Then, Bishop Justin steps in to take participants through Canoeing the Mountains by Tod Bolsinger. This book considers how to navigate change and difficult times. +Justin will use it to help us see how we are to be agents of renewal in our own mission units, ‘being church’ as a transformative movement of local faith communities.   

This is a wonderful opportunity to learn from +Justin through some inspiring content.  

Being Church is the final paper for 2023 from the Wellington Diocese Anglican Studies programme.  

It will be taught by entirely on Zoom in 10 1-hr lectures on Mondays at 7 pm on the 11th, 18th, and 25th of September; 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th of October; 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th of November.   

Our lecturers are Rev. Heidi Nayak and Bishop Justin Duckworth and there will be a special guest lecture by Rev. Rota Stone.  

It follows on from our other wonderful papers from 2023, Old Testament, Intergenerational Community, Sharing Sacraments and Doing Theology.    

This paper is one of our 5-credit Zoom-only taster courses, designed to be as accessible as possible.  It is free of cost and anyone from the Diocese of Wellington can enrol.  As always, you may enrol for credit (meaning you have to write one assignment) or for audit-only (no assignment required).  You may enrol in this paper as part of our Diploma or simply as a one-off.  To enrol, fill out the simple online form here: https://www.stjohnscollege.ac.nz/regional-programmes If you have any questions, please contact Heidi Nayak at anglicanstudies@anglicanmovement.nz.   

The vision of the Anglican Studies programme is “theological education as discipleship” and we are keen to build up a learning community of students who integrate what they learn into all areas of their life as disciples and ministers of the Gospel.  To that end, discipleship groups (a.k.a. Huddles) are a core part of our programme.  We will be running fortnightly discipleship groups alongside the weekly lectures – this is for any students not already in a 3DM Huddle.