About this cohort
This Doctor of Ministry cohort will invite established and emerging writers in multiple genres and contexts (those in traditional ministry and those whose work and writing move them into broader arenas of service) to think deeply, theologically, and artfully about their work.
As people whose very life arrives from the Word, Christians ought to be those with the deepest reverence for language. Yet, too often, our writing is stilted, banal, cliched, moralistic, and bereft of the beauty and care our craft requires. If we are dealing with holy work simultaneously immersed in gritty humanity and divine transcendence, then our writing ought to carry a haunting lilt while piercing the heart and the mind. The Sacred Art of Writing aims to walk with students into this joyful, sacred calling.
The DMin is a ministry degree that uniquely seeks to form people in lives of service to God, the church, and the world. As such, the Sacred Art of Writing program is distinct from an MFA. We will tend to matters of craft as one essential thread but also to theological and spiritual themes inherent in this vocation and essential for the writer's life and soul.
