Visit Online Bible College Classes for Free!

If you ever considered going to Bible college, but can’t leave your job or don’t want to relocate, consider this:

All Maritime Christian College courses are online.

I’ve been teaching courses online for several years, but all courses are online and live.

You can sample a course for FREE! When school resumes next week, you can sit in on a live class.

Check out the courses on the attached schedule. This semester we have:

Life of Christ
Homiletics
Eschatology
Christian Literature
Theology and Design of Worship

These courses are already underway, but by visiting them you can get a feel for what an online Bible College experience is like.

This online experience is free, but you have to have a Zoom code to participate. Please DM me with your information. Also, please share this with others.

This is a great chance for students who are currently out of school because of Covid-19 concerns to check out MCC.

Note: all courses on the schedule are Atlantic Daylight Time, so you have to adjust. If you visit my Eschatology course, it starts at 8 AM EDT!

Do You Want to Understand the Bible?

This fall I am teaching an online course in Biblical Interpretation. The class is offered online and meets from 10-11:15 AM (Atlantic time, 9 AM Eastern) every Monday and Wednesday beginning on September 10th.

The course is offered by Maritime Christian College, Charlottetown PE, and is open to anyone who has internet access and the time to commit. The course is offered for two hours credit. Tuition for the course is $360 plus fees and textbooks, or $180 if audited (no assignments or tests graded). Senior audit discount (60+ is only $90 to audit).

During this course, you will learn how to read and interpret Scripture. Our online class sessions are live and you are able to interact with other students. Check out the syllabus below to locate course requirements and reading lists, then join us!

 

For full information, contact Maritime Christian College through this link

If you are curious, download the course syllabus here.

Closing a Seminary, 1937

Sometimes Religious Freedom can just be removed by a bureaucrat.

Finkenwalde Seminary

It may be noticed that the underground seminary established by Deitrich Bonhoeffer trained ministers for the Confessing Church while flying a Nazi flag in front of its school. Everything taught there opposed the Nazis but the Nazis were allowed this victory over them before they closed the school permanently and arrested its faculty and students. The flag out front had little to do with the resistance within.

Bonhoeffer himself was arrested and hung by the Nazis at age 39.

The letter below is from the SS and German Police instructing the Gestapo to close the school.

From the Reichsführer SS and Chief of the German Police to the Office of the Secret State Police (Gestapo)

Berlin, August 29, 1937

The persistent actions of the bodies of the so-called Confessing Church in training and examining young theologians in their own organizations, in defiance of the institutions set up by the state, constitutes a deliberate violation of the Fifth Decree for the Implementation of the Law for the Protection of the German Evangelical Church of December 2, 1935 (Legal Code of the German Evangelical p 315 Church; page 130 [Reich Legal Gazette I, page 1370]) and is inclined to undermine both the authority and the welfare of the state.

By agreement with the Reich and Prussian minister of science, training, and public education and with the Reich and Prussian minister of church affairs, I hereby direct:
In accordance with § 1 of the decree of the Reich president for the Protection of the People and State of February 28, 1933 (Reich Legal Gazette I, page 83), the substitute seminaries, study communities, and offices of instruction, students, and examination established by the so-called Confessing Church are to be dissolved, and all theological courses and retreats conducted by them forbidden.

Violations of this decree are to be prosecuted according to § 4 of the aforementioned law. In equivocal cases, my decision is to be secured.

With authorization: Heydrich
Authorized: [signature] Chancellery Employee

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theological Education at Finkenwalde: 1935–1937, ed. Victoria J. Barnett and Barbara Wojhoski, trans. Douglas W. Stott, vol. 14, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2013), 314–315.