The Culture Care course is a key component of the comprehensive three-year Masters in Theology program at King's College Seminary. The program is structured to cover required courses in the first year, electives in the second year, and a comprehensive exam and thesis defense in the third year.
Incorporating principles from Jewish agricultural laws, specifically Leviticus 19:23-25, the M.A. (Theology) program at King's College Seminary also adopts a time-based approach to candidate impact. The program sets a 5-year limit for candidates to complete their studies and contribute to the Campus Set-up. This limit is analogous to the Biblical commandment to refrain from consuming the fruit of newly planted trees for the first three years, to offer the fruit as a sacrifice in the fourth year, and to freely eat the fruit from the fifth year onwards. In the context of the M.A. (Theology) program, this approach is designed to give candidates ample time to "grow" and "mature" in their theological studies and practical skills, before making significant contributions to the Campus Set-up in the later years of their candidature.
The Culture Care course, central to the seminary's mission, is tailored for candidates seeking non-levitical qualifications under DAVT ordination. This course, a distinctive blend of secular and theological education, enables students to pursue full ministerial accreditation under DAVT. It underscores the sacredness of non-levitical ordination, which is more about the individual's character and identity than their role in the church, nation, or society. The course is a prophetic act, marking the individual's reception of God's ordained mandate and ministry by an ecclesia. It is a crucial part of the seminary's mission to provide a well-rounded education in theology, fostering critical thinking, spiritual growth, and a deep understanding of theology.
<aside> <img src="https://prod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/49de0235-e8bc-4eca-bf20-2a9d6d267a02/e4cfb2d0-e354-4b89-a0db-0279fd0acc0a/kings_college_skinny.png" alt="https://prod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/49de0235-e8bc-4eca-bf20-2a9d6d267a02/e4cfb2d0-e354-4b89-a0db-0279fd0acc0a/kings_college_skinny.png" width="40px" /> “Do you want to know how you might win the culture war? It is to care for culture, it is to love your enemies, facing the devastation of ground zero. I have thought about that, struggled with it, and of course that is an impossibility. Of course that might be something that only an artist can say, because art is about making impossibilities possible, to give you a portal of this new vista that may not have existed before.” Makoto Fujimura, speaking to ARC Nov-1 2023
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<aside> <img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/781adce3-3f3e-4e76-8ce7-d9135335604b/D62DB733-941B-4F12-979D-EF3351B7181D.jpeg" alt="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/781adce3-3f3e-4e76-8ce7-d9135335604b/D62DB733-941B-4F12-979D-EF3351B7181D.jpeg" width="40px" /> Join our 2-week volunteer vacation at our extension campus at Mountain View Guesthouse at White Elephant Gate in Old Chiangmai and help us update a traditional theological curricula to align with post-Covid realities. Help us build the academic infrastructure needed for accreditation as a Fellowship of Theology, Family, and Human Development. You'll work with a multi-disciplinary team for approximately 100 hours on a structure that includes a new course numbering system for our accelerated MA program. Together, we aim to build a better degree offering that is at the impact centre of all seven modalities. You'll have to pay your own expenses to attend, but it's a great opportunity to improve theological education and make it more relevant to changes in work, home, and society.
Accelerated MA prog (remote campus: CNX)
Mountain View Academic Basecamp
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Culture Care seeks to answer two important questions: What makes life worth living? and Why tomorrow is better than yesterday?
Key learning objective: What makes life worth living? Why is tomorrow better than yesterday? Your elemental archetype is evidence for the existence of God and a prime example of intelligent design.
Each of you will be assigned a specific team based on self-organised validation of archetype and defaults. What do you recognise in yourself that makes you special? Where have you seen yourself engrossed to the point of losing track of time?
Each learning group or team will go on to examine the eight key default natural abilities (DNA) within each archetype and you will be able to change groups to fine-tune your self-research.
<aside> 👑 “Mamlakah is how all the pieces fit together, how the whole is greater that the sum of its individual parts. The fragment stands alone but together all the individual fragments form a much bigger picture, a clearer vision of what makes life worth living. Mamlakah is Hebrew for “kingdom” - the conceptual idea of the many becoming one, the broken becoming whole again. It’s all about you, but you are not what it’s all about. We are “fragments” of something much bigger, wiser, stronger and higher than ourselves. Together, we are ordained for greatness. Fitly framed in love we bless heaven and flourish.” Mart Henry Bongabong Artists-in-Residency (MHB-ART) programme, 175a/b Geylang Road S(389247).
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What makes life worth living for you is wrapped up in the ability to live in such a way as to get to the finish in good time and with strength left over. You are more in the will of God today that you’ve ever been is something that heaven has been wanting to tell you for the longest time. You are living your life by design by understanding your defaults so that you can face whatever life throws at you.
You notice others too - their pains, their hurts, their needs. You are being shaped into a vessel of honor to discover the will of Him who calls us, to serve the people around you in all usefulness. Your gifts and abilities have made room for you on the team. You are welcome on the team not only for what you can do but for what you are. No one is going to contribute to the cause and community in the exact same way you do. You're not indispensable but you are irreplaceable.