The Doctor of Ministry (DMin) in Formation and Soul Care at Friends University is a doctoral-level program seeking to equip Christian practitioners with a comprehensive biblical, theological, and practical paradigm for Christian formation and soul care for a 21st-century context. The program is four years total with three years devoted to the core curricular schedule examining biblical theology (“Awareness of God”; year one), self-knowledge and soul care (“Knowledge of Self”; year two), and its implications for mission and engagement in the world (“Mission to Others”; year three). A fourth-year will be devoted to writing and finalizing a doctoral project.

A DMin program is not a research doctoral program. More broadly, it is a program that serves practitioners in and for the church (i.e. “Doctors of the Church”).