Courses

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Registration opens on Monday, September 8.


The Divinely Designed Evolutionary Plan - enroll now!

Papers: 49, 50, 51, 52

There is a divinely designed evolutionary plan that will someday prevail in advancing mankind through the unfolding of the seven major planetary epochs on Urantia. We will learn about these exciting epochs, as well as the diversity of mortal will creatures inhabiting and evolving within our starry universe home. We will explore our isolated planet’s tardy evolutionary progress as compared to that found on more normal worlds in Nebadon. While Urantia continues to grapple with the tragic repercussions of rebellion and default, we are assured that ultimately our world will triumph and attain its magnificent evolutionary destiny.

Teacher-Facilitator: Chris Gravel


Caligastia: Urantia’s Failed Planetary Prince - enroll now!

PAPERS: 50, 53, 66, 67

Join us as we learn about the Planetary Prince order of local universe sons. Journey back 500,000 years to when Caligastia, a brilliant secondary Lanonandek Son, was sent to Urantia to serve mankind as our Planetary Prince. Explore his 300,000-year reign, during which he and his corporeal staff labored to advance the planet’s primitive civilization; witness their methods, struggles, and accomplishments. See the “war in heaven” play out in our local system and planet. Learn how Caligastia’s deliberate and willful participation in the Lucifer rebellion redirected human history.

Teacher Facilitator: David Anderson


Training and Testing of the Apostles for Public Work - enroll now!

Papers: 138, 139, 140, 141

We will explore the choosing of Jesus’ twelve apostles, their interesting individual strengths and weaknesses, and their first forays into public ministry. We will delve into the powerful ordination sermon that Jesus presented to these kingdom ambassadors and ponder the extraordinary master philosophy of life that is still so relevant to us today. Join us as we study how Jesus tested and trained these men, and how they struggled to grasp the dynamic new spiritual philosophy destined to transform Urantia.

Teacher Facilitator: Hara Davis


The Art of Rearing and Educating Children - enroll now!

Papers: 84 and sections from various others

It is in childhood that basic character traits and a spiritual understanding of the world are formed through experience, environmental influences, and human relationships. Children are the future of our planet. If we raise them in the spirit of truth, beauty, and goodness, the world they create will help our planet to evolve and advance. Raising children is also an experience that develops parents and caregivers spiritually. It is a process with the power to spiritually transform, not only individuals, but entire communities, and even our planetary destiny. We will explore these ideas using extensive examples from Adam and Eve, Jesus, a society on our neighboring planet, and the mansion world experience.

Teacher Facilitator: Krystyna Wardęga-Piasecka


Agondonter Steel: Becoming Rebellion Proof - enroll now!

Papers: 31, 40, 50, 52, 53, 67

Course Description: What is an agondonter? What does the experience of being an agondonter yield in the soul of mortals? Throughout this course we will study the great heroes of the Lucifer rebellion who forged “agondonter steel” by fully uniting their minds with spirit, thus creating the superhuman values that made them rebellion proof. We will explore the tragic consequences of rebellion on Urantia and the subsequent Adamic default, but we will also rejoice over the insuperable rewards derived from living on an isolated world. We will learn how to grow agondonter faith amidst adversity, with an eye to our ultimate future career as members of the Mortal Corps of Finality in the eternal service of the Paradise Deities.

Teacher Facilitator: Judy Cosky