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Authors of published or forthcoming books in the popular \u201cAfter Christendom\u201d series will lead a series of six webinars this year and next, presented by the Church of the Brethren, the Center for Anabaptist Studies at Bristol Baptist College in the UK, the Anabaptist Network, and the Mennonite Trust.<\/p>\n
Following are dates, times, topics, and leadership of the webinars:<\/p>\n
Oct. 21, 2014, \u201cThe Fading Brilliance of Christendom\u201d with Stuart Murray Williams.<\/strong> He is the author of \u201cPost-Christendom\u201d and \u201cChurch after Christendom,\u201d editor of the \u201cAfter Christendom\u201d series, a trainer\/consultant working under the auspices of the Anabaptist Network, director of the Center for Anabaptist Studies at Bristol Baptist College, and one of the coordinators of Urban Expression.<\/p>\n Nov. 20, 2014, \u201cReading the Bible after Christendom\u201d with Lloyd Pietersen.<\/strong> Pietersen has a doctorate from Sheffield in Biblical Studies, has written extensively on the Pastoral Epistles, was a senior lecturer in New Testament Studies at the University of Gloucestershire, and currently is a research fellow at Bristol Baptist College and serves on the Steering Group of the Center for Anabaptist Studies.<\/p>\n Jan. 29, 2015, \u201cHospitality and Community after Christendom\u201d with Andrew Francis.<\/strong> Francis is a community theologian, published poet, writer of several books including \u201cHospitality and Community after Christendom\u201d and \u201cAnabaptism: Radical Christianity,\u201d served as the UK Anabaptist Network\u2019s first development worker, and as executive vice-chair of the UK Mennonite Trust until 2013.<\/p>\n Feb. 26, 2015, \u201cYouth Work after Christendom (revisited)\u201d with Nigel Pimlott.<\/strong> Pimlott has worked for Frontier Youth Trust for many years and is the author of numerous books and youth work resources, with a current book project titled \u201cEmbracing the Passion\u201d about Christian youth work and politics.<\/p>\n May 6, 2015, \u201cAtheism after Christendom\u201d with Simon Perry.<\/strong> Perry is chaplain at Robinson College, University of Cambridge, and author of \u201cAtheism after Christendom: Disbelief in an Age of Encounter,\u201d with other publications including a piece of historical fiction titled \u201cAll Who Came Before\u201d and a theological monograph, \u201cResurrecting Interpretation: Technology, Hermeneutics and the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus,\u201d among others.<\/p>\n June 2, 2015, \u201cGod after Christendom?\u201d with Brian Haymes and Kyle Gingerich Hiebert.<\/strong> Haymes is a Baptist minister who has served in several pastorates, the last being Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, London, and has been principal of Northern Baptist College, Manchester, and Bristol Baptist College. Hiebert is a Canadian Mennonite who holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Manchester.<\/p>\n Each webinar begins at 2:30 p.m. (Eastern) and runs for 60 minutes. There is no charge to participate, but donations are welcome. Registration and more information about the topics will be available soon at www.brethren.org<\/a> . For questions contact Stan Dueck, the Church of the Brethren\u2019s director of Transforming Practices, at sdueck@brethren.org<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Authors of published or forthcoming books in the popular \u201cAfter Christendom\u201d series will lead a series of six webinars this year and next, presented by the Church of the Brethren, the Center for Anabaptist Studies at Bristol Baptist College in the UK, the Anabaptist Network, and the Mennonite Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"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":[806,1304],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-9174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-congregational-life-ministries","tag-training"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9175,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions\/9175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9174"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=9174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}