Harbor, Pepperdine Bible Lectures

Teacher: Doug Peters  

Teacher: Zac Luben What might ministers learn from the ways poets view the world? This class will explore that question by looking at the work of Charles Taylor, Hartmut Rosa, and Andrew Root.

Teachers: Luke Norsworthy, Suzanne Stabile We haven't met anyone who doesn't want to belong or have meaning. Yet many of us seem to miss out on both. Drawing upon on timeless wisdom from the Living Word, Enneagram Master teacher Suzanne Stabile and Luke Norsworthy will discuss how to find both.

Teacher: Jeff Walling  

Teacher: Taylor Walling Restoration churches have always claimed to model themselves after the New Testament church. The church that started on Pentecost. The church that prayed and walls shook. The church that added to their number daily. Among the many characteristics of the Spirit-filled early church, future generations have to reclaim a counter-cultural unity, unceasing prayer, and a living witness to the world. We must disciple tomorrow's church in daily dependence on and communion with God's very Spirit, for the sake of all generations to come.

Teachers: Luke Norsworthy, Suzanne Stabile We haven't met anyone who doesn't want to belong or have meaning. Yet many of us seem to miss out on both. Drawing upon on timeless wisdom from the Living Word, Enneagram Master teacher Suzanne Stabile and Luke Norsworthy will discuss how to find both.

Teacher: Jeff Walling  

Teacher: Taylor Walling Here's a thought experiment: you ask a teenager in your church what it means to be part of the churches of Christ or the Restoration Movement. How do they respond? The answer depends on the story they've inherited. Too often the story handed to the next generation has been either so narrow it strains against adaptation or so broad it lacks a clear identity. This class will present a framework for telling a story of restoration more lasting and helpful to future generations.

Teacher: Mallory Wyckoff What we believe to be true about God informs what we believe to be true about everything and everyone else. When God is conceived solely through masculine language, metaphors, and imagery—whether in sermons, religious art, or in private prayer—we are robbed of countless ways to experience the Divine, to consider ourselves as humans, to order our communities in ways where everyone has the ability to flourish. In this workshop, we’ll inventory our functioning image(s) of God, explore feminine imagery and metaphors, and seek to live into a fuller expression of the Divine—and of ourselves.

Teacher: Dewayne Winrow I will provide a candid and personal assessment of the pre-pandemic conditions, pandemic challenges to being the church, and post-pandemic rebuilding based on these challenges.