Program Components

Core Curriculum: The Path of Crow: Journey to Your Inner Treasure

Community Service

Training in Ministerial Duties

Study of World Religions

Required Reading

Non-Ordination Path: Independent Study

The Path of Crow: Journey to Your Inner Treasure ~ Program for Independent Study

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Interfaith Seminary Program
Ordination Path: Interfaith Minister

Required Reading

Spiritual Allegories:

An Ordinary Life Transformed: Lessons for Everyone from the Bhagavad Gita

by Rev. Stephanie Rutt (Eastern Perspective)

Hobblebush Books, available at Barnes and Noble Bookshops

ISBN: 13:978-0-9760896-6-7

This book evolved from 10 years of Bhagavad Gita study groups, facilitated by Rev. Stephanie Rutt, with participants from all religions and walks of life. It provides an interfaith perspective of the universal truths, expressed in this beloved scripture of India, which challenge each of us to rise up and live out our destiny in service to a greater good.

Hinds' Feet on High Places

by Hannah Hurnard (Western-Christian Perspective)

Living Books, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

ISBN: 978-0-8423-1429-9 (Paperback)

This well loved allegory from the Christian tradition describes the journey of Much Afraid as she seeks to follow the Good Shepherd to the High Places. Along the way, there are challenges and lessons to be experienced and integrated which seekers from all faith traditions will recognize: triumph over adversity; transforming grief and pain into something incomparabley precious; learning to surrender what does not serve to know the love of God in new and, sometimes, unexpected ways.

Spiritual Practice, Prayer & Meditation:

Open Mind, Open Heart, 20th Anniversary Edition (Deluxe Edition)

by Thomas Keating, (Christian Perspective)

Continuum

ISBN: 0-8264-18899

Father Keating describes the rich contemplative tradition of Christianity most intimately experienced through the practice of centering prayer.

A Gradual Awakening

by Stephen Levine, (Eastern Perspective)

Anchor Books, Doubleday

ISBN: 0-385-26218-3

This simple book offers a wealth of wisdom on the practice and experience of meditation from the Buddhist perspective.

A Study of the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic

Course created by Rev. Stephanie Rutt (Christian Perspective)

Research includes the work of Neil Douglas-Klotz & Rocco A. Errico as well as references from the Life Application Study Bible.

This course is part of an extended course created and offered through the Tree of Life School for Sacred Living focusing on the Lord's Prayer and Beatitudes in Aramaic and the Gnostic gospels.