{"id":5813,"date":"2012-10-03T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=5813"},"modified":"2018-11-03T20:18:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:18:07","slug":"webinar-highlights-wonder-and-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2012\/webinar-highlights-wonder-and-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar Highlights Wonder and Imagination to Feed the Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"mceItemTable\" style=\"width: 250px;margin-bottom: 0.5em;margin-left: 0.5em;float: right\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/anabel-c-proffitt.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Webinar speaker Anabel C. Proffitt<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u201cThe Wonder of It All: Using Wonder and Imagination to Feed the Spirit\u201d is the title of a two-part webinar presented as a collaboration of the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Congregational Life Ministries and the Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership. This free online event is intended for pastors and other interested church members, and no pre-registration is required.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can we contrive to be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it?\u201d said an invitation from Stan Dueck, director of Transforming Practices. \u201cThe sense of wonder holds these two states in a creative tension that feeds our spiritual lives with a sense of gratitude and awe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The speaker is <strong>Anabel C. Proffitt<\/strong>, associate professor of Educational Ministries at Lancaster (Pa.) Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, she is author of numerous articles on religious education and is completing a book titled \u201cThe Sense of Wonder: Pathos and Play in Religious Education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Dates and times:<\/em><br \/>\n&#8212; The first session on &#8220;What Is Wonder? Where and How Do We Find It?&#8221; will be<strong> Oct. 8, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Pacific<\/strong> time (1:30-2:30 p.m. eastern); repeated on Oct. 11, 5-6 p.m. Pacific (8-9 p.m. eastern).<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; The second session on &#8220;Cultivating Religious Imagination in Life and Ministry&#8221; is <strong>Oct. 29, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Pacific<\/strong> (1:30-2:30 p.m. eastern); repeated on Nov. 1, 5-6 p.m. Pacific (8-9 p.m. eastern).<\/p>\n<p>Link to the webinar at <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/preview!www.brethren.org\/webcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.brethren.org\/webcasts<\/a> . Ministers may receive 0.1 continuing education units for live sessions only. For more information contact 800-323-8039 ext. 343 or <a href=\"mailto:sdueck@brethren.org\">sdueck@brethren.org<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Wonder of It All: Using Wonder and Imagination to Feed the Spirit\u201d is the title of a two-part webinar presented as a collaboration of the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Congregational Life Ministries and the Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership. 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