Doctor of Ministry Program

• Four required on-campus seminars, offered in one-week intensive or hybrid (one week online, one week on campus) format in January/June
• One travel seminar to the Texas-Mexico Borderlands (location subject to change)

• One required on-campus class, “Writing the Integrative Project,” (takes place after all five seminars are completed)

• Integrative Portfolio

• Religion in American Life
Inspired by Jesus’s mission of recovery of sight to the blind, this course makes visible the assumed and often invisible structures of civil religion, American religious history, socio-political-economic forces, and the reification of nationalism in material culture and public rhetoric.
• Power
Following Jesus to proclaim release to the captives, this course addresses power and powers biblically, theologically, ethically, and practically. 
• Justice
To bring good news to the poor demands knowledge of the good news itself as well as knowledge of the poor—those who live deprived of economic resources and those deprived of hope. This course explores God’s vision for justice in contemporary life.
• Freedom
The complexity of Jesus’s call to let the oppressed go free is on display in the chronic and urgent public matter of immigration, border security, dignity of persons, money, and race lived out in the borderlands. This course integrates the learning of the first three courses. A component of this course is a travel seminar to the Texas-Mexico borderlands.
• Preaching and Communication
This course opens up the work of proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favor as rooted in scripture and tradition and yet contextual as truth enacted in the arts of language.
 

Integrative portfolios contain the following elements:

Evidence

Evidence is anything that demonstrates your work in courses or in related experiences on which you reflect critically. It may be:

• Essays or papers written for courses

• Projects undertaken for courses

• Course evaluations written by instructors

• Sermons or articles written for publication in newsletters

• Descriptions or transcriptions of interviews with significant figures in the ministry context

• Journals, recordings, or photographic records of travel seminars

• Visual, dramatic, or literary creations that reflect on course themes and subjects

• Other items that demonstrate student learning

Reflections

A reflection is a short, written work (1-2 pages) in which you reflect on some evidence or experience included in your portfolio. These reflections provide the opportunity to describe how you have integrated personally what you have learned in a class or through an experience. Ideally, you will connect learning in one course with learning in other courses. This process may raise questions for further research or reflection, including describing developing ideas for the integrative project.

Integrative Project

After you have completed course work in one of the two concentrations, you will design and execute an integrative project. The integrative project is a substantive piece of work. It may be a written thesis, a collection of shorter works closely connected to a research issue or question, a mixed-media presentation, or in other form as described in the project proposal and approved by the reader and academic dean. 

Costs for the Academic Year 2023-2025

Entrance Fee: $300

Five Seminars, each: $2180

Travel Seminar Fee: $500, Subject to change with location

Integrative Project Supervision: $2000

Graduation Fee: $400

Total Cost: $13,020

NOTE: DMin students regularly take one semester per residency session at $2,000 per course.

You can read the details about the application process in our Catalogue (page 24), but essentially it is this: Submit your application and fee, endorsement letter, four recommendations, two essays, transcripts, and background check. The final step is an interview with the director of ministerial formation and advanced studies, then your application will go before the Admissions Committee.

Deadline for application materials for January Cohort is September 1, Deadline for application materials for June Cohort is February 1.