Plans for the Semester.... to be updated

Comprehensive calendar of assignments, readings, & papers. 

Does not include the SPF Projects:

• Spiritual autobiography & Spiritual practice presentation

..... I .... want.... to .... cry.....

***If possible I need to Sign up For spiritual Autobiography Group 4 so I can do it for reading week. 

• Spiritual Personal Formation
• Invitation to Theology

For the first section of the classes until the first break/Reading Week

Tuesday 9/17

• Class
• Finished reading Caputo Lessons 4-6

Thursday 9/19

• Class 
• Do the 5 paragraphs paper - module 2

Friday 9/20

• 20's Gala for Work
• Start theology paper - module 2

Saturday 9/21

• Finish Theology paper
• Read all 3 SPF readings & Complete Journal 2 - module 2

Sunday9/22

• Hiking
• Clean house
• On What Cannot Be Said: Preface, 6, 11,12,13, 15, 16 - module 2
• Theology Lecture 2 - module 2

Monday 9/23

• GYM
• Niebuhr, “Mystery and Meaning” (14 pgs) - module 2
• SPF video (25 mins) - module 2
• SPF lecture 2 - module 2

Tuesday 9/24

• Class 
• On What Cannot Be Said Chapters 17, 18, 20  - module 2
• Start planning Spiritual Practice outline 
• Start planning autobiography outline 
• Brigid and Aine
• Lilith
• Lucifer

Wednesday 9/25

• GYM
• Game Night/D&D
• On What Cannot Be Said Chapters 22, 25, 26, 27 - Module 2 
• Fishbane Chapter 1 (1-45) - Module 3 start

Thursday 9/26

• Class
• Friedman Introduction in Failure of Nerve, 1-28 - Module 3
• Chapter 2 in Failure of Nerve, 51-94 - Module 3
• “Hive of Nerves” in My Bright Abyss, 85-102 - module 3
• Journal 3 SPF - Module 3

Friday 9/27

• SPF Autobiography pitches to sus out which paper to write; --> Surrendering into the Void
• Play with poetry vs Prose
• Involve Music? 
• Tale of the untold her -- Lilith 
•  Lucifer?
• Brigid & Aine?
• 
  
• FUCK SCHOOL I NEED TO RECHARGE

Saturday 9/28

• McFague, Models of God, Preface and Chapters 1 - Module 3

Sunday 9/29

• 
  
• Theology Video before bed.30 min. - module 3
• McFague, Models of God, Preface and Chapters 1- Module 3
• Discussion Board 3 - Module 3
• SPF Lecture 3 - 1hr

Monday 9/30 . 

• Gym

• McFague, “A Meditation on Exodus 33:23b”* - Module 3

• McFague, “Metaphorical Theology”* - module 3
• Write outline for TRUTH paper. its more extensive than previously thought.
• Outline for Autobiography

• Spiritual Practice Presentation DUE

Tuesday 10/1

• Class
• Friedman - Chapter 4(132-157) - Module 4
• SPF Journal #4

Wednesday 10/2

• Gym
• Darts
• McFague, Models of God, Chapter 3 - Module 3
• Keller, On the Mystery, Prologue and Chapters 1 - Module 4

Thursday 10/3

• Class
• Morrison “Recitatif” in Schwehn and Bass, 353-370 - Module 4
• Friedman - Chapter 5 (158-186) - Module 4
• Friedman Chapter 7 (204-226) - Module 4
•  Keller, On the Mystery - Chapter 2 - Module 4
• Discussion Board 4 - Module 4

Friday 10/4

• Gym
• Wells “Rethinking Service” in Schwehn and Bass, 374-387 - Module 4
• Keller, On the Mystery, Chapters 4&5 - Module 4
• Start SPF Autobiography 

Saturday 10/5

• SPF Autobiography paper 

Sunday 10/6

• SPF Lecture 4
• SPF FINISH AUTOBIOGRAPHY PAPE

Monday 10/7

• Gym
• Baldwin The Fire Next Time, 47-75 - Module 5
• AUTOBIOGRAPHY DUE
• Wildman, God Is, All - Module 5 - I read 3 out of the 9. These were ROUGH.
• Discussion Board - Module 5

Tuesday 10/8

• Class
• Lindner “The Perils and Possibilities of Multiplicity” - Module 5
• Baldwin  The Fire Next Time, 76-106 - Module 5
• Wildman, “Really Ultimate Reality”* - Module 5

Wednesday 10/9

• Gym
• SPF Mid term outline
• SPF Journal  - Module 5
• Wildman, God Is, All - Module 5 -- read at least 2 more.

Thursday 10/10

• Class
• Eli Wiesel Night Opening & 1-65 - Module 6

Friday 10/11

• Gym
• D&D 

Saturday 10/12

• SPF Midterm - multi dimensional  - finish
• Wildman, God Is, All - Module 5 -- read at least 2 more.

Sunday 10/13

• SPF MIDTERM DUE. (Multidimensional)
• 
  

Monday 10/14

• Gym
• Cohn-Sherbok, Holocaust Theology: A Reader, Introduction and Chapter 1 - Module 6
• 2 personal chapters
• SPF Lecture 5

Tuesday 10/15  

• Class
• SPF 1/2 Readings - Module 6

Wednesday 10/16

• Gym
• Darts
• Discussion Board - Module 6 

Thursday 10/17

• Class
• Work on Theology Mid term - truth
• SPF 2nd half of Module 6 readings
• SPF Journal  - Module 6

Friday 10/18

• Gym
• Work on Theology Mid term - truth 
• Eli Wiesel Night 65-115 - Module 6

Saturday 10/19

•  Finish Theology midterm - truth
• Meet Michael?

Sunday 10/20

• THEOLOGY MIDTERM DUE - truth
• Theology Lecture 3 - Module 6
• Theology Video - 1 hr - Module 7 

Monday 10/21

• Gym
• SPF Lecture 6
• 2 autobiographic chapters

Tuesday 10/22

• Class
• Plaskow, “Facing the Ambiguity of God”* - Module 7

Wednesday 10/23

• Gym 
• D&D/Game night

Thursday 10/24

• Class
• Rubenstein, After Auschwitz, Chapters 1, 8* - Module 7 

Friday 10/25

• Gym
• Rubenstein, After Auschwitz, Chapters 9, 13, 16* - Module 7 

Saturday 10/26

• Visit Mom? Something social?

Sunday 10/27

• Discussion Board - Module 7 
• SPF Lecture 7

Monday 10/28

• Gym
• 2 autobiographic chapters

Tuesday 10/29

• No Class
• SPF Readings Module 7 1/2
• Cohn-Sherbok, Holocaust Theology: A Reader, Chapters 3-4, 6, - Module 8

Wednesday 10/30

• Darts

Thursday 10/31

• No Class
• SPF Readings Module 7 2/2
• SPF Journal - Module 7

Friday 11/1

• Gym
• Cohn-Sherbok, Holocaust Theology: A Reader, Chapters 9-13 - Module 8
• Discussion Board - Module 8

Saturday 11/2

• Start Theology "Goodness" Paper -- Due 11/17... and factor in being out of it for my surgery.

Sunday 11/3

• Work on Goodness Paper 
• SPF Readings 1-4  - Module 8 
• SPF Lecture 8

Monday 11/4

• GYM
• SPF Readings 4-8 Module 8 
• SPF journal 8 
• 2 autobiographical chapters

Tuesday 11/5

• Class

• Tillich, “Art and Ultimate Reality”* - Module 9

• Loomer, “S-I-Z-E is the Measure”* - Module 9

Wednesday 11/6

• GYM
• D&D
• Finish Godness Paper

Thursday 11/7

• Dean, Coming To: A Theology of Beauty, Chapter 4* - Module 9

• Dean, “Liberal Realism: T.S. Eliot and the Ambiguity of God”* - Module 9

• Class

Friday 11/8

• Day of Surgery... no school. 

Saturday 11/9

• Recovery.. no school

Sunday 11/10

• Recovery... no school

Monday 11/11

• Bednarowski, “Theological Creativity and the Powerful Persistence of Religious Symbols”*

• Driver “Ritualizing: The Animals Do it and So Do We” (PDF on Canvas) - module 9
• SPF Lecture 9
• 2 autobiographical chapters

Tuesday 11/12

• Class
• Fishbane Chapter 2, 46-107 - Module 9

Wednesday 11/13

• No darts or Game night - recovery 

• Thatamanil, “Constructive Theology as Theopoetics”* - Module 9

• Discussion 9

• Theology Lecture 4 - Module 9

Thursday 11/14

• No Class - Theology Video 1.5 hour
• FINISH GOODNESS PAPER

Friday 11/15

• Wiman “Varieties of Quiet” in My Bright Abyss, 117-144 - Module 9
• Journal 9
• SPF Paper

Saturday 11/16

• SPF paper

Sunday 11/17

• THEOLOGY PAPER DUE (Goodness)
• SPF Paper Finish
• SPF Lecture 10

Monday 11/18

• SPF PAPER DUE (Religious Horizons)
• 2 autobiographical chapters

Tuesday 11/19

• Class
• Coakley “Deepening Practices” (PDF on Canvas) - Module 10
• Start planning Final Project?

Wednesday 11/20

• Cone, The Spirituals and the Blue Chapters 1 - Module 10
• Driver “Ritual’s Social Gifts” (PDF on Canvas) - Module 10
• Fishbane Chapter 3, 108-155 - Module 10
• Journal 10

Thursday 11/21

• Class
• Cone, The Spirituals and the Blue Chapters 2& 3 - Module 10

Friday 11/22

• Cone, The Spirituals and the Blue Chapters 4 & 5 - Module 10
• Lourde - Poetry is not a Luxury,” in Sister Outsider, 24-27 - Module 11
• lourde - “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”, in Sister Outsider, 28-32

Saturday 11/23

• Cone, The Spirituals and the Blue Chapters 6 & Reflection - Module 10
• Discussion 10

Sunday  11/24

• Alexander, Saving Beauty, Chapter 1 - Module 11
• SPF Lecture 11

Monday 11/25

•  Alexander, Saving Beauty, Chapter 2 - Module 11
• 2 autobiographical chapters

Tuesday 11/26

• Class
• Weiman - “Preface,” in My Bright Abyss, ix-x - Module 11
• Weiman “Sorrow’s Flower,” 15-32 - Module 11
• Weiman “Tender Interiors,” 33-39 - Module 11

Wednesday 11/27

• Alexander, Saving Beauty, Chapter 3 - Module 11

Thursday 11/28

• No Class
• Alexander, Saving Beauty, Chapter 4 - Module 11
• Discussion 11
• Weiman “God’s Truth is Life,” 39-63 - Module 11

Friday 11/29

• Weiman “O Thou Mastering Light,” 63-81- Module 11
• Weiman “Dear Oblivion,” 81-85 - Module 11
• Weiman“God is Not Beyond,” 103-116 - Module 11
• SPF Jounal 11
• GYM?

Saturday 11/30

• Caputo, What to Believe? Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology, Lessons 7 - 9 - Module 12

Sunday 12/1

• SPF Final Project 
• SPF Lecture 12

Monday 12/2

• SPF Final Project 
• Wiman  “Mortify Our Wolves,”in My Bright Abyss, 145-162 - Module 11
• Wiman “A Million Little Oblivions,” 163-178 - Module 11
• 2 autobiographical chapters

Tuesday 12/3

• SPF Final Project 
• Lorde - “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism,” in Sister Outsider, 115-125
• Lorde - “Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger,” 138-169 - Module 12

Wednesday 12/4

• SPF Final Project 
• Tolstoy - “The Death of Ivan Ilych” in Schwehn and Bass, 570-618 - Module 12
• Jounral 12

Thursday 12/5

• yay my bday
• Class
• SPF Final FINISH

Friday 12/6

• surprise .... no school

Saturday 12/7

• Surprise...... no school

Sunday 12/8

• surprise... No school

Monday 12/9

• SPF FINAL DUE (Integrative Project)
• Theology Lecture 12

• Caputo, What to Believe? Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology, Lessons 10

• 2 autobiographical chapters

Tuesday 12/10

• Last SPF Class - no more assignments! 

Wednesday 12/11

• Caputo, What to Believe? Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology, Lessons 11 & 12
• Lesson 12 Discussion

Thursday 12/12

• Last SPF Class
• Theology Final

Friday 12/13

• Theology Final 

Saturday 12/14

• Theology final finish 

Sunday 12/15

• THEOLOGY FINAL DUE (Beauty)

DONE WITH THE SEMESTER