Jonathan Sargeant

To inspire your faith: Faith Asking Questions

St Francis College is happy to announce "FAITH ASKING QUESTIONS", the new St Francis College online short course. Our team at FormEDfaith, Jonathan Sargeant and Fiona Hammond made it!

There are 17 experts answering 27 big faith questions as voted by members of the Anglican Diocese Southern Queensland.
These are questions addressed in ways you'll never forget, to inspire your faith forever!
https://www.stfran.qld.edu.au/faith-asking-questions

We’ve grouped the 27 questions under 6 themes. Here they are…
1. Religion and why it makes a difference
2. The Creator and being created
3. Who am I and what am I here for?
4. Evil and what to do about it
5. Grace and learning to forgive, learning to hope
6. Life, death and what comes next

The course is for personal or group use, or you can curate your path through the course too. There’s over 3 hours of intriguing video to inspire your faith, along with discussion/reflection questions and transcripts for study afterwards. It’s great!

"So What Does Anglican Mean?"

You’re at a barbeque and conversation with some new friends takes an interesting turn. You mention you went to church that morning, an Anglican one in fact. The next question? “So what’s Anglican mean?”

And you’d say…?

The new St Francis College Short Course: Being Anglican is designed to enable you to answer that question. Five episodes (mostly under 10 minutes each except for the big finish!) come with discussion questions, transcripts so you can ponder more deeply and extra reading in case you want to ponder even more deeply still.

The content for the short course comes from a session Archbishop Phillip led in which he explored the word ‘Anglican’ in an interesting and unique way. You’ll have to watch to find out what that means!

Jonathan and Fiona love making these short courses for St Francis College and the next one is in planning at the moment.

Anyway the promo for Being Anglican is above to give you a taste, but the full course, free of charge is here… Enjoy!!

St Francis goes to Hong Kong

Jonathan Sargeant with Senior Lecturer Matthew Jones and the class

Jonathan Sargeant with Senior Lecturer Matthew Jones and the class

Jonathan Sargeant recently traveled to Ming Hua University in Hong Kong to lecture with students there, a first for the Anglican Theological College.

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Working with an attentive group of postulants, school teachers and other theological students, Jonathan facilitated activities, lectures, group assignments and theological reflection to lead the group through 12 weeks of lectures in five action-packed days.

“This was a first for Ming Hua”, Jonathan said. “This was the first time an intensive subject has been delivered. It was a first for me too, lecturing overseas! But the students were great, with incisive questions, always eager to know more.”

“THL366 Christian Education is a subject that is very suited to mixtures of lectures, group work, discussion, and featured a unique version of online integration, too. We used devices continually to share information, thinking and research. Ultimately it was a great experience and I’d look forward to doing it again!”