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EOL offers courses at NYTS and at Queens College that are essential to the general curriculum for MD iv and DM in students, helping them explore relationships between research on urban ministry and more effective vital congregations. But you do not have to be an NYTS student to enroll! Students elsewhere can transfer credits. Clergy and lay people can "audit" courses to learn new skills of congregational and community analysis.

Our ‘Church and Community Analysis’ course is designed as an integrating learning experience, bringing community data into dialogue with biblical, theological and historical knowledge. Along with readings and discussions, the course engages participants in interactive research designed to clarify the ecologies in which urban congregations are situated and to share this newly- generated knowledge in collaborative settings to help pastors and congregations address more effectively the social and pastoral needs found within their communities. Special attention is given to building technical, financial and other congregational capacity for transforming ministry in urban settings. 

At Queens College, Dr. Livezey offers ‘Religion and the American City,’ which explores how the ‘urban revolution’—our globally linked, frenetically mobile, normatively multicultural, and economically information driven cities—both constrains and provides opportunities for religious vitality and agency in urban communities.  Utilizing the literature of urban theory and religious studies, we examine the activities of New York’s diverse religious organizations and their impact on the city’s changing cultural, economic, and spatial structures. (This course is next offered Fall 2007).

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