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Are you wondering what the best practices are for teaching, mentoring, or ministering to young people today? Learn from Candler School of Theology professors who have been invested in theological education for youth for several decades.
Sample Content
One free preview lesson from each of the four units — no registration required.
What You'll Learn
From teaching Scripture to navigating the hardest seasons of young people's lives — practical formation grounded in decades of Candler scholarship.
Practical tools, creative teaching strategies, and biblically sound content designed to make the Scriptures come alive for young hearts and minds.
How young people develop a living faith identity — and how ministry leaders can create the conditions for genuine spiritual formation in community.
Young people go through seasons of profound change. This unit equips you to walk alongside them with wisdom, presence, and theological grounding.
Practical tools for reaching young people navigating trauma, conflict, marginalization, and the challenges of contemporary adolescent life.
Curriculum
Each unit moves from biblical foundations to practical ministry skills — building the knowledge, posture, and tools needed to serve young people faithfully.
What does it look like to open Scripture with young people — not just for them? This unit equips you with creative, biblically sound strategies for teaching that invites young people into active engagement with the text.
Faith identity doesn't form in isolation — it develops in community, through practice, and over time. This unit explores the theology and practices behind genuine youth formation in congregational and community contexts.
Adolescence is defined by transition. This unit gives ministry leaders the theological and practical tools to walk with young people through seasons of change — transitions in family, identity, vocation, and faith itself.
Young people today face extraordinary pressures — trauma, social conflict, mental health challenges, and systemic injustice. This unit equips you to minister with wisdom, compassion, and theological depth in the hardest moments.
Your Instructors
Dr. Corrie's teaching draws on commitments to both peace with justice and the education of young people, particularly the development of teaching and ministry that empower people for global citizenship. She joined Candler's faculty in 2007. Having focused her doctoral work in 19th century philosophy and theology, Corrie became increasingly interested in practical theology as her work with youth and in peace and justice activism deepened. Her research interests include transformative pedagogy, theories of nonviolence, and conflict transformation.
A graduate of Furman University, Dr. Weaver completed an MDiv and ThM at Emory's Candler School of Theology and a PhD in Christian ethics at Emory's Laney Graduate School. She is a candidate for certification with the Center for Nonviolent Communication and offers classes on empathy and pedagogy at Candler.
How It Works
Work through each lesson at your own pace — no deadlines, no schedule, no expiration date. Move as quickly or slowly as your ministry life allows.
Short, focused video lessons from Dr. Corrie and Dr. Weaver — watch on your schedule, revisit anytime.
No required live sessions. Learn whenever it fits your schedule — mornings, evenings, weekends, whenever.
No deadlines, no cohort schedule — begin whenever you're ready and progress through the material entirely on your own timeline.
Earn 3 Continuing Education Units and a Candler Foundry certificate upon successful completion of all four units.
Start immediately at your own pace.
No application, no schedule — just enroll and learn.