Intro to Spirituality & Discipleship/Ministry | Short Course

Topics include: the life of prayer, spirituality and the Bible, spirituality and mission, mysticism.

What are the details of the course?

This course will be taught over 7 Mondays:

26th Apr

10th, 17th, 24th May

7th, 14th*, 21st June

*Please note 15th June will be taught on Zoom.

Lunch is served at 12.30pm and you'd be welcome to join staff and students for lunch, followed by Prayer in the Day at 1.20pm, with teaching starting at 1.45pm and finishing at 4.30pm (with a coffee break). You will be learning alongside students who are working towards Durham University qualifications, but as a Short Course participant you will not need to submit any written work.

The course is taught by Christian Selvaratnam.

Revd Dr Christian Selvaratnam is the Dean of Church Planting at St Hild College and founder of the Centre for Church Planting. Having founded the Church Planting Track and Seedbed programme at St Hild College, Christian is now the Director of Camino, a new programme for resource church leaders involved in strategic church planting and multiplication. Before this, he worked for fifteen years at Alpha International in various roles including as Head of Alpha UK and National Director, and concurrently for fourteen years as the Ordained Leader of G2, a Church of England church plant in York, and as the Pioneer Minister at St Michael le Belfrey, York.

Our code of conduct is here: https://sthild.org/UserFiles/File/Introductory_emails_2025/Code-of-conduct-and-Learning-Framework-June-24.pdf

St Hild College is able to cancel your enrolment with us if you do not adhere to the code of conduct.

Please note that St Hild college may contact you regarding any medical and study needs provided in the process of purchasing a short course ticket. If further needs arise subsequently, or are disclosed later, we will do our best to support you and make reasonable adjustments. But, we reserve the right to withdraw the ticket if your needs are beyond the capacity of our resources.

St Hild reserves the right to change the venue, tutor, timings, or other course details.

Refund (minus 10% administration fee) available up to 7 days before course start date