RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY ONLINE COURSES

Whether you grew up in a Judeo-Christian religious tradition or simply experienced the larger cultural effect of those traditions, these courses from Prajna Studios will help expand your understanding of what those traditions can offer and provide practices for living those traditions in your daily life.

The Way of the Wisdom Jesus

Going Beyond the Mind to the Heart of His Teaching

Taught by Cynthia Bourgeault

If you put aside what you think you know about Jesus and approach the Gospels as though for the first time, something remarkable happens: Jesus emerges as a teacher of the transformation of consciousness. In this online course, Episcopal priest, author, teacher, and retreat leader Cynthia Bourgeault serves as a masterful guide to Jesus’s vision and to the traditional contemplative practices you can use to experience the heart of his teaching for yourself.

How to Be a Mensch

The Jewish Tradition of Mussar

Taught by Alan Morinis

At the heart of Judaism, no less fundamental than the observation of ritual and the wisdom of Jewish law, revelation, and text, is the teaching of the transformation of the heart and soul of the individual. Dr. Alan Morinis, founder of The Mussar Institute, introduces the extraordinary thousand-year-old tradition of Mussar to help practitioners acquire Torah and internalize the wisdom of the tradition.