Academic Courses

• The History of God, Jewish Studies Program, City College of New York, Spring 2010

• The New Sciences of Religion, University of Peradeniya, Spring 2008.

• A Short Course on Everything: An Introduction to Science and Religion, University of Peradeniya, Fall 2007.

• Becoming Human: Evolution of Religion, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2003.

• Problems in Modern Religious Thought, Swarthmore College, Fall 1999.

• Science and the Sacred, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 1996, Fall 1996, Summer Session 1998.

• Intellectual Heritage, two semester, writing intensive, core curriculum of great books in philosophy, literature, religion, and science  from ancient and modern periods, Temple University, 1994 -1998.

• Cosmos and Creation, co-taught with Norbert Samuelson, Temple University, Spring 1997.

• Introduction to Asian Religions, Senior Lecturer, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 1994.

• Death and Dying, Temple University, Fall 1992.

• Introduction to World Religions, Temple University, Spring 1992, Spring 1993.

• Introduction to Western Religions, Temple University, Fall 1991.

• Introduction to Asian Religions, Temple University, Fall 1989, Spring 1991, & Spring 1994.

• Religion and Society, Comparative Religious Ethics, Temple University, Spring & Fall 1990.

 

• Science and the Sacred, a four part study course for adult learners.  First taught at St. David's Episcopal Church in Wayne, PA over four months in 1998-1999 with over 90 participants.

• Social Witness for the 21st Century, a nine week course for the resident students at Pendle Hill: A Quaker Retreat and Study Center, Spring 1993 and Spring 1994.

• Quakerism 101: Faith and Practice (A six session adult education program for Quaker Meetings): Downingtown MM, Fall 1993; Germantown MM, Fall 1994.

• Quakerism 201: Faith and Witness (A six session adult education program for Quaker Meetings): Goshen MM, Winter 1989; Kennett MM, Fall 1989; Plymouth MM, Winter 1991;  Downingtown MM, Spring 1991: and London Grove MM, Fall 1991.

• Youth Leadership Training, designed and organized a four day program for 75 urban teenagers.  Workshops were conducted on goal setting, community building, affirmation, unlearning racism, and nonviolence.  Program was part of the 300th anniversary observance of the Germantown Protest Against Slavery in April 1988.

• Vorbereitungs Seminar,  group leader in a four week training for new volunteers from Aktion Sühnezeichen/ Friedensdienste .  Training program was an intensive encounter with German history and society around issues related to the Holocaust.  Program included a ten day visit to Poland with an extended study-work camp at Auschwitz.  March 1983 and September 1983.

• Re-Storying Ourselves Though Mythic Drama, four and five day workshops for twenty and thirty people respectively at Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology, May 1994, and Friends General Conference, July 1994 (co-taught with former wife, Babette Jenny, Psy.D.)