New Webinars and Autobiography Course from “A Church Dismantled—A Kingdom Restored”

Over the past two years, sociologist and pastor Dr. Conrad Kanagy has offered a thesis that “God is Dismantling the Church.” Through a podcast and book series, he has used his own story of a mid-life Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis as a metaphor of lament and hope for the Church. Kanagy is now offering five webinars entitled “A Kingdom Restored” and a course entitled “Re-storying Your Story.” While the webinars focus on the restoration of the church, the writing course teaches participants to recover and write their own stories by listening deeply to their lives. Besides his memoirs, Dr. Kanagy is the author of a forthcoming biography of theologian Walter Brueggemann. Both the webinar and the course share the theme of restoration amid our personal and ecclesial “dismantlings.”

The five webinars are scheduled for Fridays from Noon to 3 p.m. EST and the writing course Thursdays from 1 to 3 p.m. EST beginning September 8. Registration for both includes video and audio recordings. The cost of the five webinars is $150.00 and for the course $200.00--or both for $300.00. The webinars are capped at 100 registrants and the course at 25. For more information and to register go to  FIVE WEBINARS. 

Webinar topics and a current list of presenters are:

• August 5 -  “Renovating the mission of God in A Church Dismantled.” (Nelson Okanya, Rev. Roger Greene, Dr. Rev. Patrick Keifert)
• Sept. 9 - “Confronting religious trauma in A Church Dismantled.” (Dr. Leah Thomas, Dr. Kathleen O’Connor, Dr. Louis Stulman)
• Oct. 8 -  “Recovering evangelical pietism in A Church Dismantled.” (Rev. Frederick Trost, Scott Holl)
• Nov. 4  -  “Growing in wisdom as we age in A Church Dismantled.” (Dr. Christine Roy Yoder, Executive Team and residents of Garden Spot Village)
• Dec. 2 -  “Back to the Bible in A Church Dismantled.” (Rev. Clover Reuter Beal, Rev. Dr. David Stabenfeldt, Rev. Ken Quiring)