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General Course Series
Jesus the Storyteller: Awakening Love & Inspiring Action
This three-module mini course explores several parables that draw us closer to Jesus while still inviting us to see something new. These stories confront false powers, stretch our imagination, and continue to inspire genuine transformation of heart and life.
Self-study mini-course is $9.95, registration required. When it is being offered, the live online hybrid version of the course is $29.00.
Jesus the Healer: Power, Mystery, and Meaning (Mini-Course)
This three-module course explores how healing was tied to divine authority, the interdependence of body and spirit, and how Jesus and his followers transformed healing into an awakening to one’s true identity in God. By the end, you’ll see Jesus’s ministry not as a distant legend, but as a bold vision still relevant today.
Self-study mini-course is $9.95, registration required. When it is being offered, the live online hybrid version of the course is $29.00.
Two Revelations, Two Johns, One Secret
The ancient world was filled with revelations offering hidden teachings about safety in transformation, consciousness, and spiritual awakening. In this Bible and Beyond course, we explore two extraordinary texts from early Christianity: the biblical Revelation to John and the Secret Revelation of John. Written in the shadow of Roman oppression, these texts wrestle with suffering, power, salvation, and the nature of reality itself. Self-study course is $29.00. When it is being offered, the live online hybrid version of the course is $69.00.
Mary Magdalene: A Leader for the First and Twenty-First Centuries
Christians have imagined Mary Magdalene as the repentant prostitute for well over a thousand years, but now, after the discovery of the Gospel of Mary and other early Christian writings, we know there is not a shred of truth to that. She was also the one person most closely associated with the resurrection of Jesus. Was she actually one of Jesus’s disciples? Or even the first apostle? Self-study course is $49.00. When it is being offered, the live online hybrid version of the course is $129.00.
Ancient Christian Texts for Modern Healing
This course focuses on healing in the first centuries after Jesus and how those ideas can be made practical today. The course introduces several extracanonical texts including the Nag Hammadi works. Experienced readers of the texts and those new to the material will find engaging material, challenging learners to engage in healing the world we live in now.
Self-study course is $49.00. When it is being offered, the live online hybrid version of the course is $129.00.
After Jesus Before Christianity: New Discoveries
This course, After Jesus Before Christianity: New Discoveries, is presented by Dr. Shirley Paulson and Dr. Deborah N. Saxon. The course is designed to help students gain a better understanding of early Jesus people by examining information from a wide variety of sources, including extracanonical texts found in the last century and the book After Jesus Before Christianity.
Self-study course is $49.00. When it is being offered, the live online hybrid version of the course is $129.00.
Nag Hammadi Series
Introducing Nag Hammadi and Related Texts
Introductory Course For the Nag Hammadi Series – The Nag Hammadi collection and other major 20th-century textual discoveries inspire and challenge today’s Christians. This course introduces these remarkable ancient texts. Learn what they’re about, why they were lost for so long, why they are so controversial, and what impact they could have on modern Christianity. Self-study course is FREE, registration required.
The Gospel of Thomas Goes Public (Second Edition)
First in the Nag Hammadi Series – Presenter Dr. Shirley Paulson explains the complex but extremely important relationship between the recently discovered Gospel of Thomas and the Bible, while helping you gain confidence in your own ability to interpret and make use of it. Self-study course is $49.00. When it is being offered, the live online hybrid version of the course is $129.00.
Healing Violence in the World: Letter of Peter to Philip
Second Course in the Nag Hammadi Series – Learn about some surprising new ideas about Jesus in this little-known text, the Letter of Peter to Philip. Jesus gives his ambassadors (i.e. disciples) instructions in six steps that lead his followers (from long ago and now) to experience peace, joy, and even healing in the face of violence. Self-study course is $49.00. When it is being offered, the live online hybrid version of the course is $129.00.
The Thought of Norea: Christ’s Sister Savior
Third in the Nag Hammadi Series – In this course, students will discover that a female divine Savior was among a few other Saviors who helped the early Christ followers. The Thought of Norea, found in the Nag Hammadi texts in 1945, not only indicates the reality of this female Savior, but in her divine-human state, she illustrates for humanity how her divinity might be attainable by others. Self-study course is $49.00. When it is being offered, the live online hybrid version of the course is $129.00.
The Secret Revelation of John
Fourth Course in the Nag Hammadi Series – This course explores the ancient writing titled the Secret Revelation of John. [Note: this is not the biblical Revelation TO John.] The remarkable 1945 discovery of this ancient text expands our modern understanding of the early Christ people in extraordinary ways. Written about the same time or just a bit later than other biblical texts, it reveals a side of the Jesus movement that had been lost to the world for over 1600 years. In this online course, Dr. Shirley Paulson explores the book’s three major ideas – gems – that support its healing and saving message. Self-study course is $49.00. When it is being offered, the live online hybrid version of the course is $129.00.