New Courses in 2026 from People's Catholic Seminary- Enroll Now

PCS 204 - Jesus the Healer: Power, Mystery and Meaning

Join us for one evening with Dr. Shirley Paulson as she presents a lecture on Jesus the Healer.

Wednesday January 7, 2026

7PM Eastern Time

Cost: $29

For more information and to enroll, click here: https://pcseminary.teachable.com/p/pcs-204-jesus-the-healer-power-mystery-and-meaning

 

 

PCS 510 – Introducing Nag Hammadi and Related Texts

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

7PM Eastern Time

Course Facilitator: Dr.Shirley Paulson

This course meets every other week for six sessions beginning on January 14, 2026. Online weekly discussions start Wednesday, January 14, 7PM Eastern (6 Central, 5 Mountain, 4 Pacific).

Cost: $100

For more information and to enroll, click here: https://pcseminary.teachable.com/p/pcs-510-introducing-nag-hammadi-and-related-texts

 

This course delves into some remarkable ancient Christian texts that were discovered relatively recently in the twentieth century. An extremely important discovery, made near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, the Nag Hammadi collection includes 52 books, and 40 of them were a complete surprise to modern scholars! Nobody knows why they were lost for 1600 years, but these new-old documents expand our knowledge of Jesus and his early followers. In fact, although they expose some prevalent misperceptions about early Jesus followers, the real roots of Christianity, the innovation and insights contained in these documents are quite inspiring. The course specifically focuses on some of the more famous discoveries, such as the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary, as well as a few lesser-known works.

 

The course is divided into six sections, each section containing four lectures. You can watch the recordings at your convenience and enjoy continuing access to it. The full course includes nearly three hours of recorded instruction.

 

 

PCS 601 – Creating Homilies for Liturgical Seasons

Monday, January 19, 2026

4PM Eastern Time

Course Facilitator: Dr.Bridget Mary Meehan

This course meets every other week for six sessions beginning on January 19., 2026

For more information and to enroll, click here: https://pcseminary.teachable.com/p/pcs-601-homiletics-and-preaching

 

Participants will work in a cohort to create inspiring homilies and homily starters, to implement effective delivery, and to incorporate contemporary scholarship of scripture through various approaches, including Chat-GPT for sermon development throughout the liturgical seasons.

 

COMING SOON –

 

PCS 205 –Unpacking the Sunday Old Testament Readings for Lent 2026

Thursday, January 29, 2026

7PM Eastern Time

Course Facilitator: Rabbi Anna Maranta

This six-session course will meet every other week beginning on January 29, 2026

More information to follow

 

 

 

Blessings on Inés Leonor Pujol ARCWP and loving prayers for your priestly ministry!

We rejoice  with Rev. Ines Leonor Pujol  ( right) ordained aa priest on Jan.3rd, 2026 by Bishop Christina Moreira ARCWP (left)
May your priestly ministry to the people of God be blessed with abundant joy and fruitfulness.

 

CAC faculty member Brian McLaren introduces the 2026 Daily Meditations theme: “Good News for a Fractured World.”

Our world is deeply fractured. We see the symptoms all around us. We see it in politics. We see it in social media. We see it in our families and denominations. Those fractures couldn’t come at a worse time. We need to come together as never before to address our environmental and climate crises, to resist authoritarian movements that have the power of billionaires, the power of social media and AI, at their disposal to divide us further and further. We need to come together to explore better ways of living with ourselves, with one another, and with this sacred beautiful earth.

But just when we need to come together, we see ourselves fracturing and retreating into our opposite corners of isolation, our little echo chambers, where we only hear what we want to hear, which often is the opposite of what we need to hear. These fractures make us feel afraid and sometimes depressed, reactive, and paralyzed, and soon we feel ourselves being sucked into being part of the disease instead of part of the healing.

For spiritually alive people, for people of deep and genuine faith, we don’t want to surrender to despair and cynicism, reactivity and fragmentation. We want to be healed and empowered, so we can participate in healing and empowering other people.  [1]

Many people today feel disillusioned by the divisions that Christianity has helped create. Yet even amid this fracturing, faithful people are reimagining what it means to follow Jesus with compassion and courage.

Across every traditional Christian denomination, there are widespread calls for change. Imaginative scholars, liturgists, organizers, networkers, and pastors are creating resources and spaces for beautiful new things to be born….

These redeemers of Christianity are out there, by the hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands. Catholic and Protestant, Pentecostal and Mainline, Eastern Orthodox and other … I know them. Some are heads of communions, bishops, seminary presidents, and professors, with well-known names, with best-selling books and big platforms. Some are pastors and church planters, leading and forming faith communities of all shapes, sizes, and denominations. Some are nuns, friars, Catholic workers, organizing for the common good. Some are podcasters, publishers, bloggers, producing creative content to help in the transition process. Some are artists, integrating needed truth with arresting beauty. Most are quiet people, living ordinary lives of extraordinary love and grace. When they’re attacked, they keep moving forward with humble, gracious confidence. When they’re discouraged, they find new inner strength. When they think about leaving Christianity, which probably happens quite often, they say, “Not today. Not me.” You know this is true, because there’s a good chance that you’re one of them….

It will never be perfect. Of course. It’s a human enterprise, and we humans complicate everything. But at least this emerging Christianity could become humble and teachable, curious and self-critical, creative and humane, diverse and harmonious. [2]