{"id":7196,"date":"2017-06-03T21:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=7196"},"modified":"2018-10-11T21:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T21:02:58","slug":"two-crucible-webinars-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2017\/two-crucible-webinars-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Two \u2018Crucible Webinars\u2019 are offered this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Church of the Brethren Newsline<br \/>\nJune\u00a03,\u00a02017<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7197 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/crucible-webinar-the-art-of.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/crucible-webinar-the-art-of.png 600w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/crucible-webinar-the-art-of-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Congregational Life Ministries is partnering with organizations in the United Kingdom to present \u201cCrucible Webinars\u201d in June and July, on the topics \u201cThe Virtual Self\u201d and \u201cThe Art of Resilience: Nurturing Practices for Flourishing.\u201d Sponsors include the Church of the Brethren Congregational Life Ministries, Anabaptist Network UK, Bristol Baptist College, Mennonite Trust, and Urban Expression UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Virtual Self\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0is presented by Simon Jay on Wednesday, June 14, from 2:30-3:30 p.m. (Eastern time). Jay lives in Birmingham, England, and with his wife, Rachel, set up the Haven Community Project. They intentionally moved into the area leading an Urban Expression team working alongside the community. He is a graduate student at Bristol Baptist College, and is involved with various agencies dedicated to foster caregiving. \u201cAs we create and interact with our online digital presence, what is happening to our identity?\u201d asked a description of the webinar. \u201cIs this new world of online identities enabling us to connect with more people or creating isolation? Can we use this forum as an influence for good or are their other agendas influencing us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Art of Resilience: Nurturing Practices for Flourishing\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0is presented by Alexandra (Alex) Ellish on Thursday, July 20, from 2:30-3:30 p.m. (Eastern time). After six years of ministry in London\u2019s multicultural east side, Ellish moved with her family to join an Urban Expression church-planting team in East London. She is a coordinator with Urban Expression UK and works with the Anabaptist Network and Mennonite Trust as a development worker. Her ministry focuses on engaging younger adults and activists interested in following Jesus in a peacemaking tradition and building relationships with organizations committed to nonviolence and social justice.<\/p>\n<p>A continuing education credit of 0.1 for each webinar is available for ministers who attend the live events only. A link to the webinars and more information is at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/webcasts\">www.brethren.org\/webcasts<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>Go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/Newsline\">www.brethren.org\/Newsline<\/a>\u00a0to subscribe to the Church of the Brethren Newsline free e-mail news service and receive church news every week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congregational Life Ministries is partnering with organizations in the United Kingdom to present \u201cCrucible Webinars\u201d in June and July, on the topics \u201cThe Virtual Self\u201d and \u201cThe Art of Resilience: Nurturing Practices for Flourishing.\u201d Sponsors include the Church of the Brethren Congregational Life Ministries, Anabaptist Network UK, Bristol Baptist College, Mennonite Trust, and Urban Expression UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[806,1273,1304],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-7196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-congregational-life-ministries","tag-spiritual-life","tag-training"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7199,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions\/7199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7196"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=7196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}