It has been said that the technological advances of the twenty-first century must be matched by comparable advances in human relations. In this two-session course religious professionals will use spiritual practices to enrich their online ministry. Participants will be asked, who are you being when you are doing all those things online? What technological advances can help you cultivate an authentic pastoral presence, whether through email exchanges, social media, or videos? What gadgets can you use to enrich the quality of your prophetic outreach as you address the moral issues of our time? Whether struggling with email or Facebook, or whether succeeding at building a robust online ministry, it is imperative for religious professionals to be individually and collectively conscious about the primary purpose of using technology: to advance human relations.

The registration will close on Sunday, November 3, 2014, at which time each individual will be invited to briefly connect with Reverend Nate to prepare the first session.

Reverend Nate Walker is a Unitarian Universalist minister and a Strategy and Development Consultant for the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute in Washington, DC. He previously served as a fellow at Harvard Divinity School and is currently completing his doctorate in law, education, and religion at Columbia University and teaching in the department of philosophy and religion at Rowan University. He is the author of Exorcising Preaching: Crafting Intellectually Honest Worship (Chalice Press 2014) and the co-editor of Whose God Rules? (Palgrave Macmillan 2011) and co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Religion and American Education.

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Kari Kopnick

Family Ministry & Learning (2014) at the Church of the Larger Fellowship

For seven years, Kari served as the Director of Religious Exploration at the Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Seattle, Washington. She also served on the board of the Liberal Religious Educators Association. 

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