![]() He is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary (1980) and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (2012). MICHAEL BOYLE is an interim pastor and previously served as a church planter, District Superintendent, and an Associate Professor of Pastoral Studies at Moody Bible Institute (2007-2018). Though a seminary education is irreplaceable, One Volume Seminary is the next best thing to give you the training and equipping you need to succeed in ministry. from preaching the Word to premarital counseling. Proclaiming the Word in Worship and Preachingįrom baptizing a convert to balancing a budget.One Volume Seminary provides sixty essays with practical advice for every aspect of church life-always grounded in the Word of God-under six main headings: ![]() Editors Michael Boyle, Laurie Norris, and Kerwin Rodriguez combine their years of pastoral wisdom, one-on-one counseling, high-level scholarship, and savvy street-smarts from the church’s frontlines to offer you a one-stop-shop for ministry training. This book is written by former and current faculty of Moody Bible Institute and Moody Theological Seminary. If any of these descriptions fits you, One Volume Seminary is the resource you need. Or maybe you just graduated and you don’t want to forget it all. Maybe it was many years ago and you need a refresher. It also signalled that we no longer saw ourselves as only a seminary given that our organisation now included a growing community of graduate ministers.Maybe you’re involved in ministry but you never had the chance to go to seminary. Instead the individual ordinand steps forward into a period of silence, receiving their ordination as an inner and self-directed movement.ĭuring this second half of our history, in 2011, we changed our name to One Spirit Interfaith Foundation, indicating our wish to maintain connection with our USA colleagues as they too evolved their identity. In essence the ordination was no longer conferred by the single central teacher. In parallel the conceptual underpinnings of ordination made a significant shift. In this period we learnt – literally and symbolically – that the essence of the teaching that this training was expressing was not dependent on any one person, and that it could be delivered authentically and in ever-evolving ways by a cohesive faculty working in different parts of the UK. This meant, most significantly, that the teaching was now led by more than one central teacher. This period could be described as the democratising of our organisation: the leadership base widened, most clearly evidenced in the training being offered now not only in London but in Manchester, Edinburgh and near Gloucester too. When the founder leaves, change is inevitable as the organisation recalibrates its position and potential. In 2004 we became a registered charity, operating under English law as an educational trust.Įvolving philosophical concepts of 'the teacher' and 'the ordination' In 2002 we changed our name to The Interfaith Seminary, echoing changes taking place within our colleagues in the USA. Now known as Miranda Macpherson, she teaches and leads spiritual retreats around the world. Miranda stepped out of the Seminary’s leadership in 2006. The first two year programme to train interfaith ministers and spiritual counsellors in the UK was launched in October 1996 in London with the first Ordination held in 1998.Īs our organisation’s leader for its first 10 years, Miranda developed a steady growth in student numbers recruited a talented team of faculty and visiting speakers and led the development of new teaching methods and materials. With the support of the USA school and others, Miranda was inspired to open The New Seminary in the United Kingdom. In the mid 1990’s the founder of our UK organisation, Miranda Macpherson (then Holden) undertook the USA training. ![]() ![]() Years later Diane Berk, a core part of the New Seminary faculty, founded the Interfaith Seminary, also in New York. The New Seminary arose from this inspiration, enabling others to come and develop within this intention. Together with others, Rabbi Gelberman was inspired to support the exploration of how diverse religious and spiritual leaders might together serve the true needs of the world. The OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation’s origins go back to 1981 when The New Seminary was founded in New York, USA by Rabbi Joseph Gelberman.
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