All conferees who will be in grades 9, 10, and 11 in the fall of 2007 register for JUNIOR courses.

All conferees who will be in grade 12 or above in the fall of 2007 register for SENIOR courses.

First Period Courses - 2008

THE HOLY EUCHARIST
Sister Mary Charles, Beth Harrison, and Daniel Montgomery
(Required course for all THIRD year conferees.)
A study of the central act of worship, devotion, and sacramental life of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.

DOGMA
Father McKinnon, Elizabeth Fielder, and Will Prusik
(Required course for all FOURTH year conferees.)
Something is happening to us today... We are waging a war of religion... a life-and-death struggle between Christian and pagan.  It is a war of dogma.  The word dogma is unpopular and that is why I have used it... It is a lie that dogma does not matter; it matters enormously.  It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity's only a mode of feeling... It is on the contrary a hard, tough, exacting and complex doctrine steeped in a drastic and uncompromising realism."  From Creed or Chaos by Dorothy L. Sayers..

MORAL RELATIVISM
Father Stambaugh, Jesse Shedden, and Helen Mulhern
(Required course for all conferees attending the Conference for the FIFTH or more years.)
Moral Relativism is a politically correct notion that ethical truths depend on the individuals and groups holding them.  It is very popular but very anti-Christian.  No Surprise!  As usual, the politically correct are wrong!  The text for this course is A Refutation of Moral Relativism by Peter Kreeft.

Second Period Elective Courses for Juniors

WORSHIPPING GOD IN VERSE
Michael Zadig, Elizabeth Fielder, Jonathan Harrison, Sarah Marcisak, and Taylor Watts
The critic, John Caird, wrote that poetry is man's best means of perceiving most profoundly the actions and consequences of his own emotions.  We will see how people have described, experienced, and spoken to God through verse.

SEVEN DEADLY SINS
David Perry, Elizabeth Hudson, Kate Wood, and Daniel Montgomery
You must be kidding!  Sin isn't deadly, it's fun.  Only self-righteous Puritans get uptight about sin.  Relax and enjoy life while you're young.  This is the only chance you'll have.  Right?

THE BAPTISMAL COVENANT
Father Stambaugh, Father McKinnon, and Jesse Shedden
Did I say that?  What am I going to do about it?

Second Period Elective Courses for Seniors

WORSHIPPING GOD IN VERSE
Michael Zadig, Elizabeth Fielder, Jonathan Harrison, Sarah Marcisak, and Taylor Watts
The critic, John Caird, wrote that poetry is man's best means of perceiving most profoundly the actions and consequences of his own emotions.  We will see how people have described, experienced, and spoken to God through verse.

SEX FOR CHRISTIANS
Father Robinson, Emma Melo, Emily Marcisak, and Will Prusik
"I do not the good that I want, but I do the evil that I do not want."  St. Paul's words describe the sex lives of many Christians.  Knowing what is right and wrong, sexually, is not enough.  We need to know how to do the good and avoid the evil.

PAGANS, ATHIESTS, AGNOSTICS, THEISTS, HERETICS
Sister Mary Charles, Mark Dwyer, and Mrs. Davis
Christians live with people whose beliefs are very different from their own.  What do they believe?  As Christians how should we deal with their beliefs?  Ignore them?  Try to convert them?  If so, how?

Third Period Elective Courses for Both Juniors and Seniors

Third Period Elective Course for Juniors

THE CHRISTIAN IN THE 21st CENTURY
Emma Melo, Emily Marcisak, and Taylor Watts
Christian, the world is waiting for you like a lion to tear you apart and strip you of your faith.  While it is easy to be a Christian at St. Michael's Conference, it's another matter in the "outside world" in the common routines of work, school, sports, parties, dating, etc.  How do you keep the faith there?

ACTIVITIES FOR YOUTH
Chris Wood, Mrs. Davis, Beth Harrison, Jonathan Harrison, and Sarah Marcisak
A study of ways the youth of the church can be involved in positive ways in their parish and diocese, and be aware of major "events" that are affecting The Episcopal Church.

Third Period Elective Course for Seniors

HEAVEN AND HELL
Helen Mulhern, Kate Wood, and David Perry
"We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet in the center, rather in a world where every road after a few miles, forks into two again, and at every fork you must make a decision."  From the Preface of The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis, which will be read and discussed.

THE TRUTH ABOUT MUHAMMAD
Father Cheney and Nathan Davis
Islam's founder, far from being the Jesus-like "man of peace" of media presentation, was, in fact, cruel, licentious, and the originator of the violent jihad ideology that is his most lasting legacy.