Presented by the Urantia University Institute (UUI)
What It Is
The Urantia Book Teacher Education Program (TEP) uses the Jesusonian model of teaching and pairs it with the combined experience of teachers and leaders of the Urantia movement who have been sharing the revelation for over 50 years. At its core, the program is designed to provide those who have an inner prompting to share the advanced teachings of the Urantia revelation regarding God, the cosmos, and our planetary history and eternal destiny with a coherent body of knowledge and skill set they can use to communicate more skillfully with spiritually hungry people looking for answers to life’s big questions.
What the TEP Will Do?
- Prepare those who feel called to teach or minister to the spiritual family of God in the light of the Urantia revelation and to spread the expanded gospel of Jesus presented in The Urantia Book to their faith communities and the broader culture.
- Provide a program of study leading to a comprehensive and integrative understanding of the major themes and concepts of The Urantia Book that enables participants to better articulate the revelation to their native cultures and to a wide and varied audience of individuals and groups.
- Nurture the development of the participant’s inner spiritual life towards the goal of authentically embodying an awareness of the Presence of God in one’s life through faith and spiritual practices.
- Train for effective ministry based on Jesus’s model of loving service with an emphasis on spiritual transformation and mastering techniques of meeting individuals where they are at in a dialogue of souls.
2023 Beta Test
The 2023-2024 academic year is a test of the Teacher Education Program. Students who are participating in this year have been specially selected based on the value that they might bring in providing quality feedback about the course.
2024 Cohort
The 2024-2025 program year will begin with an in-person orientation session over five days at Urantia Foundation in Chicago. This personal experience allows participants to meet their instructors/guides and form a cohesive cohort. Participants will become oriented to the program’s structure, goals, and curriculum, and engage in some basic skill-building sessions. The cohort also establishes Circles of Trust that build strong spiritual relationships in a small group setting.
Who’s Involved?
The TEP is a collaborative endeavor by representatives from Urantia University, Urantia Foundation, Urantia Association International, and the Urantia Book Fellowship that is supported, in part, by a Mustard Seed Grant from Urantia Foundation.
Building on the Teachings of Jesus
What the TEP Will Do?
Prepare those who feel called to teach or minister to the spiritual family of God in the light of the Urantia revelation and to spread the expanded gospel of Jesus presented in The Urantia Book to their faith communities and the broader culture.
Provide a program of study leading to a comprehensive and integrative understanding of the major themes and concepts of The Urantia Book that enables participants to better articulate the revelation to their native cultures and to a wide and varied audience of individuals and groups.
Nurture the development of the participant’s inner spiritual life towards the goal of authentically embodying an awareness of the Presence of God in one’s life through faith and spiritual practices.
Train for effective ministry based on Jesus’s model of loving service with an emphasis on spiritual transformation and mastering techniques of meeting individuals where they are at in a dialogue of souls.
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A Review from student, Barbara Newsom:
A School for Teachers and Ministers of the Fifth Epochal Revelation
“The program will provide a foundation for all who would like to incorporate the teachings of the Urantia Revelation into their lifelong educational processes. In the “early days,” the Forum met as “the Seventy” before the book was published, and until the 1970s as The Urantia Brotherhood School. Dedicated student-teachers through the decades now begin a new stage of collaboration among student-teachers from educational programs around the world to meet the needs of generations of the 21st Century for decades to come.
“Our first trimester has exceeded my expectations of quality, from the courses designed by our trimester leaders over the past three years to the presentations by the TEP participants every week. We have talented artists, researchers, facilitators, and teachers that stimulate new acquisition of knowledge and insights through experiential learning every week and spiritual growth through our Circles of Trust.
“I am confident that next year’s program will be even better, and I think my fellow student-teachers would agree. We explore and progress joyfully together. As I believe our celestial friends would say, “Please come and see.”
Now accepting applications for 2024-2025