Heather Kimmel, General Counsel for the United Church of Christ, addresses the current interest of faith communities in operating as sanctuary churches, the legal risks, and ways churches can minister to undocumented persons.
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The Recovery Journey: Resources and Practices for Spiritual Directors (Spiritual Directors International)
This on-demand webinar explores specific practices, tools, and resources for spiritual directors companioning people with addiction and their loved ones, such as prayer, meditation, ritual, and embodied practice. Spiritual direction with people in recovery also includes commitment to social justice issues that directly affect addiction and codependency. Come and explore resources from a variety of faiths and cultural traditions utilizing specific case examples.
Important Note: Participants in this webinar should have a basic understanding of addiction and twelve-step recovery programs.
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Listening to Children with a Spiritual Director’s Heart (Spiritual Directors International)
This on-demand webinar is designed to introduce parents, grandparents, and teachers to some simple mindfulness and meditation practices for young children. It provides ideas on how to meditate with children—including how to write a personalized guided meditation for your child—and introduce some helpful questions and processes to assist young children in reflecting upon experiences and events in their lives. It explores the role of gratitude as a spiritual practice for children, as well as some beautiful contemplative practices to share around the dinner table and before bed.
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Reimagining Supervision (Spiritual Directors International)
This on-demand webinar discusses supervision as a grounded, safe, compassionate relationship between peers, one designed to provide new ways forward for both spiritual directors and spiritual directees.
The webinar frames supervision as a process we engage in to better serve our spiritual directees. It focuses supervision on the inner experience of a spiritual director in relationship to the spiritual directee and discusses the role of teaching and consultation in supervision. Further, it explores various supervision formats and highlights reasonable ways for those with only a few spiritual directees to make use of supervision.
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Clergy Renewal/Sabbatical Webinar (Metropolitan Community Churches)
This on-demand webinar discussed renewal leaves that are both self- or church- funded, as well as the Clergy Renewal Grant program through the Lilly Foundation. Questions were received and responded to during the webinar.
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Convener: (Rev. Joe Cobb)
Reverend Joe Cobb is Pastor of MCC of the Blue Ridge in Roanoke, Virginia, having served since 2009. In anticipation of my fifth year in ministry we began exploring options for a sabbatical and decided to apply for the Clergy Renewal Grant through the Lilly Foundation. We were awarded this grant on our second application, and it allowed for funds to underwrite my renewal leave and the church’s renewal activities while I was away. My adventure took me to the Camino Frances’ (The Way of St. James or Santiago de Compostela), to Italy (for explorations in the heart of St. Peter’s Square, a week of cooking Italian food, and Northern Italy where we spent time in Assisi), and to Taos (an enchanted and deeply spiritual place for soul-centering.)
Rev. Terri Echelbarger
Rev. Terri Echelbarger is the Founding Pastor of Many Journeys MCC in San Mateo, CA. The Board of Directors implemented a sabbatical plan with their first budget and her first contract. She’ll reflect on how that sabbatical time has enriched not just her ministry but the church as a whole.
Rev. Tom Emmett
Originally from Colorado, Pastor Tom Emmett has been with MCC Omaha for over 10 years and is preparing for his second sabbatical. He loves the mountains, traveling to central Mexico, the Spanish language, isolating retreats, books, history and playing the cello. (All of these interests are integrated in his sabbaticals.) Having both written a successful grant to the Lilly Endowment as well as working with his Congregation to fund his upcoming sabbatical, Tom is pleased to share his insights about the sabbatical experience. A good sabbatical offers possibilities not only for clergy, but for the Congregation. Intensive and intuitive planning are critical as is the integration of experiences and learnings.
Rev. Lori Hatch-Rivera
Rev. Lori Hatch-Rivera has been the Senior Pastor of MCC of the Spirit in Harrisburg, PA for 6 years. Prior, she served as the Associate Pastor of Administration at SunCoast Cathedral MCC in Venice, Florida for 6 ½ years. She currently attends Lancaster Theological Seminary where she is working on a DMIN degree, the project focused on Pastoral Care in our own voice for the LGBTQ community.
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Sex, Bodies, Spirit (Metropolitan Community Churches) – Sacred, Not Secret (Part 3): Beyond the Norm (Kink/BDSM)
This is part of an ongoing informational and discussion series by Metropolitan Community Churches that advance this topic among clergy and churches from any denomination. All are invited to attend!
Rev. Dr. Robin Gorsline and Malachi Grennell are the authors of an exciting blog about sex, bodies, and spirit (sexbodiessspirit.net), and they are bringing their passion and expertise to a monthly gathering on Adobe Connect that will address issues of sex and spirit, in order to further advance this concern and educate all of us around the ongoing need for our churches.
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Reclaim Confession as a Progressive Practice for Lent (Center for Progressive Renewal)
In this on-demand webinar you will learn how you can reclaim confession as a progressive Christian practice, talk about the ‘vulnerability revolution’ in secular culture and how our churches can benefit and grow from walking more authentically together, while going through a step-by-step practical approach for experimenting with testimony in your community this Lent, or at any time of year.
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Follow Jesus on the Way to Justice (Center for Progressive Renewal)
For “doers” in our congregations, it is often difficult to connect the sometimes individualized season of Lent with the communal struggle for justice and social transformation. In this on-demand webinar you will join Rev. Dr. Lindsay Andreolli-Comstock, Executive Director of the Beatitudes Society, to explore the connections between Lent and social justice.
Come discover best practices for engaging new movements with authenticity and challenging the powers that be in your community.
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The Moral Imperative of Climate Change (Metropolitan Community Church)
The study of climate change is developing very quickly. Significant new information is coming out—literally—every day. This on-demand webinar explains the basics, but it also mixes in some new information to help to provide viewers with an understanding of the world and our future.
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Presenter: Dr. Stephen Mitchell Wagener
Dr. Mitch Wagener teaches climate ecology, entomology, and related courses at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. His research interests include the impact of historical events—such as the Industrial Revolution—on the environment.
Mitch began life in the Midwest, growing up a barefoot boy in the Ozarks and attending high school in Branson, Missouri—before it became so famous. After graduating from the University of Missouri with a degree in Fisheries and Wildlife, he moved to Fairbanks, Alaska to attend graduate school. Mitch received a masters degree in Stream Ecology and a doctorate in Soil Ecology during his 13 years in Alaska. There, too, he met the lovely Rita Kabali, a native of Uganda, East Africa, to whom he has now been married 33 years. They have two lively daughters, Rohanna 27 (a history teacher in an inner-city middle school) and Danika 19 (a student at Ithaca College). Mitch enjoys—among other things—watching his daughter play lacrosse and explaining climate change to the public.
Ph.D. Soil Ecology. August 1995. University of Alaska Fairbanks.
M.S. Stream Ecology. December, 1984. University of Alaska Fairbanks.
B.S. cum laude. Fisheries and Wildlife. May, 1981. University of Missouri, Columbia.
Extreme Prejudice (Southern Poverty Law Center)
Source: Teaching Tolerance
Lack of education about religious diversity has left students—particularly Muslim and Sikh students—vulnerable to bias and bullying by classmates and teachers who don’t understand the full context of religious extremism. This hostility can make it difficult for students to learn and even puts their physical safety in jeopardy. Expanding your students’ knowledge of world religions—and the diversity that exists within them—is critical to combating these dangerous stereotypes and fostering empathy in the school community. This on-demand webinar is from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding and it explores strategies that can help you teach about extremism accurately and safely, such as discussing extremism across multiple religions, examining the economic and political contexts in which extremism arises, highlighting religious peacemakers and empowering your students to make their school more inclusive.
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