Below is the schedule for the upcoming online course (our very first class offering of this type) and the Site Administration directed study.

March 16-19             Biblical and Theological Foundations

Directed Study        Site Administration

March 16-19

Biblical and Theological Foundations

About the Online Course

What makes our church camps so uniquely wonderful and sets us apart from other camping organizations is our firm foundation in our beliefs as Christians. This course will enable participants to deepen their knowledge and strengthen their understanding of our biblical and theological roots as the core value for all that we do in our outdoor ministry settings.

At the end of this course, participants will:
• Articulate Biblical themes that form the foundations of outdoor ministry
• Have tools for training staff to lead effective Bible Studies
• Learn how theology should shape the practice of ministry in each outdoor ministry site
• Engage in guided theological discussions
• Understand how campers/participants may encounter Christ through the mundane and extraordinary events of living in community

This course will be held online (daily schedule to be determined) and will be taught by Dr. Martha Moore-Keish of Columbia Theological Seminary (Decatur, GA), and Caitlin Joy Hubler of Emory University (Atlanta, GA).

About the Instructors

Martha Moore-Keish

Martha Moore-Keish grew up in Tallahassee, Florida. She attended Harvard College and Union Theological Seminary in Virginia (now Union Presbyterian Seminary), where she met and married her husband Chris. She earned the Ph.D. in theology from Emory University, and then worked for three years in the Office of Theology and Worship of the Presbyterian Church (USA). During 2003-04 she taught liturgical studies at Yale Divinity School, before moving to Atlanta in summer 2004 to take the position as Assistant Professor of Theology at Columbia Theological Seminary. She has published two books: Do This in Remembrance of Me: A Ritual Approach to Reformed Eucharistic Theology (2008) and Christian Prayer for Today (2009). Martha and Chris have two daughters, Miriam and Fiona, three cats, and a flock of chickens.

Caitlin Joy Hubler

Caitlin Joy Hubler is a PhD Candidate in Hebrew Bible at Emory University. Her work engages conceptions of divinity within the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near East. Hubler’s dissertation, “Deutero-Isaiah’s Aniconic Logic: Divine Ontology in the Templeless Age,” investigates assumptions about divine ontology and representation in Deutero-Isaiah. Her writing has appeared in the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, and the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (forthcoming). Prior to her doctoral studies, Caitlin taught high-school introductory Greek and worked as Editorial Assistant at the Society of Biblical Literature. Hubler received a B.S. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia and an M. Div. from Columbia Theological Seminary.

Schedule for the Online Course

The core of the class is face-to-face Zoom sessions from 1:00 to 3:00pm Eastern on March 16-19. Another 12 hours of content will be on your own schedule. This will be accomplished through class projects, small group time, watching videos, and one-on-one time with the instructors. There will be required reading (titles will be available at least two months in advance) and a limited amount of pre-class work (available online as of March 1) before the Zoom sessions begin. The final project for the course will be due on Friday, April 3.

Tuition