Discover the Kingdom of Love Within
A contemplative journey through the New Testament — from Paul's radical vision of a borderless Church to the New Jerusalem alive inside you — for seekers ready to live their faith from the inside out.
"The New Jerusalem is not somewhere you are going — it is something Love is building in you, right now, one act of kindness at a time."— David Clilverd
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Articulate Paul's New Testament vision of the Church as the spiritual Israel of God and explain its radical inclusivity across race, gender, age, and nation.
- Interpret the New Jerusalem as an inner, spiritual reality — the presence of divine Love dwelling within every person — rather than a future geographic location.
- Trace the theology of 'God is Love' (1 John 4) across scripture and apply it as a unifying principle that transcends religious and cultural boundaries.
- Practise daily habits of intentional kindness toward other people, all living creatures, and the natural world, grounded in a coherent spiritual framework.
- Engage respectfully and confidently in conversations about faith, unity, and love with people of different religions, denominations, and worldviews.
- Develop a personal spiritual vision statement — your own 'New Jerusalem' — that guides how you live, relate, and care for the planet.
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The curriculum
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6 modules · 17 lessons
The Church as the True Israel of God
Establishes the theological foundation of the entire course. Students explore Paul's revolutionary claim that the Church — open to all people regardless of race, gender, age, or nation — is the true Israel of God and the New Covenant community. This module must come first because every later module builds on its inclusive ecclesiology.
- 1.1Paul's Letter to the Galatians and the New Covenant PeopleIncluded
- 1.2One Baptism, Every Nation — Romans and the Universal CommunityIncluded
- 1.3Radical Inclusivity in Practice — The Early Church as a Living ExperimentIncluded
The New Jerusalem — A City Built Inside Us
Moves the course from ecclesiology to mystical geography. Students learn to read Revelation 21–22 not as a future blueprint for a physical city but as an inner spiritual landscape — the presence of divine Love dwelling within every person and every genuine community. This re-reading is sequenced after Module 1 because students must first understand who 'the people' are before they can understand where 'the city' is.
- 2.1Reading Revelation 21 as Inner LandscapeIncluded
- 2.2The Temple is Us — Paul's Body-of-Christ TheologyIncluded
- 2.3No Temple, No Sun — The City That Needs No ReligionIncluded
God is Love — Tracing the Heartbeat of Scripture
The theological and ethical heart of the course. Students study 1 John 4's extraordinary claim that 'God is Love' — not merely that God loves, but that Love itself is the nature of God — and then trace this heartbeat across the full sweep of scripture and world religion. This module is sequenced third because students now have the ecclesiological and mystical foundations needed to appreciate why Love must be the unifying principle of all they have learned.
- 3.11 John 4 — The Most Radical Sentence in the New TestamentIncluded
- 3.2Love as the Thread — From Genesis to RevelationIncluded
- 3.3Love Beyond the Walls — Spirit of God in All ReligionsIncluded
Kinship with All Living Things
Translates the spiritual vision into embodied ethical practice. Students discover that the Love at the heart of God extends not only to all human beings but to every living creature and to the planet itself. Romans 8, the Psalms, and Jesus's own care for creation provide the scriptural grounding. This module is sequenced fourth — after students have grasped who God is and what Love means — so that their ethics flow from theology rather than mere sentiment.
- 4.1The Groaning Creation — Romans 8 and the Living PlanetIncluded
- 4.2Every Creature Matters — Kindness to Animals as Spiritual PracticeIncluded
- 4.3Daily Kindness as Spiritual DisciplineIncluded
Speaking the Language of Unity
Equips students with the conversational and relational skills needed to live out the course's vision in the real world. Students learn to listen before they speak, to find genuine common ground without papering over real differences, and to articulate a love-centred faith with both clarity and humility. This module is sequenced fifth — penultimate — because students now have the theological depth and ethical grounding to engage others credibly, and the conversations they practise here will feed directly into their personal vision statements in Module 6.
- 5.1Listening Before Speaking — The Discipline of Respectful DialogueIncluded
- 5.2Common Ground Without Compromise — Articulating a Love-Centred FaithIncluded
- 5.3Navigating Disagreement with Grace — When Love and Truth CollideIncluded
Your New Jerusalem — Writing a Personal Spiritual Vision
The culminating module in which every thread of the course is woven into a single, personal, and living document: the student's own New Jerusalem — a spiritual vision statement that articulates how they understand God, Love, community, creation, and their own calling. Sequenced last because it requires everything that came before. The module is also the course's liturgical close: students are invited to share, celebrate, and commission one another.
- 6.1Gathering the Threads — Personal Theological InventoryIncluded
- 6.2Writing Your New Jerusalem — A Personal Spiritual Vision StatementIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The Restless Churchgoer
Faithful but quietly frustrated, they're ready to explore a bigger, more generous vision of Christianity than the one they were handed.
The Progressive Bible Reader
They love scripture deeply but read it critically, and they're hungry for theology that takes both the text and the world seriously.
The Spiritual Seeker
Not aligned with any one tradition, they are drawn to the mystical thread in the New Testament and want to explore it on their own terms.
The Creation-Care Christian
Passionate about animals and the environment, they want a scriptural foundation — Romans 8, kinship theology — for the convictions they already hold.
The Interfaith Dialogue Practitioner
Working or living alongside people of different faiths, they want the language and confidence to hold a love-centred faith across religious divides.
The Contemplative in Formation
Drawn to prayer, silence, and inner life, they want structured depth — not devotional fluff — to anchor their growing contemplative practice.
Questions
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Your teacher
A note from your teacher
David Clilverd
Maybe you have been sitting with a quiet restlessness for a while now. You love your faith — or you love what faith could be — but something keeps nagging at you. The version of Christianity you were handed feels smaller than the Love you sense at its centre. The walls feel too high, the map too small, the answers too quick. You are not looking to walk away. You are looking for a door that opens wider.
I know that feeling. It is exactly what drove me back to the New Testament — not to the familiar verses tidied into doctrine, but to the wild, strange, generous texts that most of us have never really sat with long enough to hear. Paul writing to the Galatians and essentially dismantling the entire idea of a chosen people — and replacing it with a community bound by Love alone. John, in four words, collapsing every theological wall ever built: God is Love. The seer of Revelation describing a holy city with no temple, no sun, no religion — only the radiant presence of Love dwelling everywhere and in everyone.
These texts changed how I see everything. Not just how I read scripture, but how I look at a stranger, how I treat an animal, how I feel my own small life held inside something vast and beautiful. And this school is my attempt to share that seeing — to sit around the fire with you, passage by passage, and let these ancient words do what they were always meant to do: blow the walls off.
This is not a course that will hand you a tidy systematic theology. It is a course that will ask you to think, to feel, to question, and ultimately to write — in your own words — a vision of the New Jerusalem that is yours. Because I believe that is the point. The holy city is not a destination you are waiting to arrive at. It is something you are being invited to become.
If you are ready to go deeper — into scripture, into love, and into yourself — I am genuinely glad you are here. Come as you are. Bring your questions. The fire is already lit.
— David Clilverd
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