What this school is for
Theological study takes a long time and usually costs a great deal. This school exists to remove one of those two. Below is what we hold ourselves to, and beside each one, the place on this site where you can check it.
Every course is free — to read, to be quizzed on, to be certified for. There is no plan to charge later. The running costs are carried by BluePetra Ministry, so there is no reason to bill a student.
There is no payment step anywhere in registration. A screen asking for a card number is not this school.
No prior degree, no church membership, no ordination is required to begin. Pastors and lay members read the same lectures. Every lecture can be read in full without an account; an account is only for progress and certificates.
A place that teaches should not hide where it is teaching from. What this school holds, and which questions it deliberately leaves open, is written down in one document and published. You may disagree — and it is better to know before you begin.
The curriculum follows the shape of an M.Div programme, but this is not an accredited degree-granting institution. What is issued is a certificate of completion, not a degree, and it does not transfer as credit elsewhere. This sentence is on the About page because knowing it now beats finding out later.
There are no deadlines, no cohorts, no classmates to keep up with. Read the courses you want, in the order you want, at the speed you want. A lecture is usually about eleven minutes. Come back after months away and your place is still there.
Underneath each lecture, what readers have written collects: how other traditions read the same passage, what happened when someone tried it in an actual congregation, and questions with their answers. Tell us where we are wrong and we will fix it.
No advertising. No tracking scripts. We collect only what the studying needs and sell none of it. Email comes only if you ask for it, and at most once a week.
These figures are counted from the database rather than written into the text. As the school grows, this page grows with it.
Alongside these, 223 glossary entries, 1,342 biblical places and 260 dated events open directly inside the text. 4,575 lectures carry diagrams drawn for them.
The best introduction is to read one lecture.
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