Sexuality Issues for Religious Professionals

Instructor: Debra Haffner
Dates and Times: One week: July 18-22, 9:00am-1:00pm
Description: Sexuality Issues for Religious Professionals is designed to offer students the knowledge and skills they need to address sexuality issues in their future ministries. The course will begin with opportunities for students to reflect on their own sexuality attitudes, values, and beliefs, as well has how their sexual identity and personal sexual history may affect their ministry. The course will cover foundational knowledge about sexuality issues, the interrelationship of sexuality and religion, and opportunities for the development of skills to provide counseling, education, preaching, and public witness on sexuality issues.

Required texts may be purchased from Lifequest Publications at 800/774-3360:

A Time to Build: Creating Sexually Healthy Faith Communities
A Time to Speak: Faith Communities and Sexuality Education
A Time to Seek: Study Guide on Sexual and Gender Diversity
A Time to Healing: Keeping Children Safe and Ministering to Sex Offenders

Course Credits & Cost: 1.5 credits - $990 / 2 CEUs - $345
Course Number: RSFT-2493 (credit); RSFT-0001 (CEUs)
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