Writing a Spiritual Autobiography

Writing a Spiritual Autobiography

Winter (14+ hours) | This course is completed

10 Hilton Field Road Hanover, NH 03755 United States

Pond Room

NEW

1/15/2018-2/26/2018

12:00 PM-2:00 PM EDT on Mon

$80.00

Few of us have the same spiritual or religious beliefs that we may have had as children. Whether one has gained faith or lost it, or whether one’s definition of faith has changed, this course provides an opportunity for reflection and sharing. Each participant will be expected to write during class for 20 minutes on a suggested topic of the day. During the course, those short essays will become the chapters of each person’s spiritual autobiography. The instructor will suggest reading resources that participants may wish to explore; but the emphasis of the course will be on the writing that each member does in class, which may be revised each week as a “homework” assignment. Varieties of perspectives, faith traditions, and experiences are welcomed. No orthodoxy is assumed. To facilitate discussion and sharing, the course is limited to 12 participants.

  • There will be an optional text for this course.
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Richard is the Emeritus Dean of Dartmouth’s William Jewett Tucker Foundation and also the Emeritus Dartmouth College Chaplain. This Osher course grows out of a course he taught at Dartmouth called “Religion and Politics”, which enabled students to have interesting conversations with their extended families at Thanksgiving. A Presbyterian minister, he has taught several Osher courses in the past, and is the author of the semi-autobiographical novel Near to the Heart.