{"id":26,"date":"2023-02-08T21:03:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.layschoolofministry.org\/press\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2026-06-03T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:13:08","slug":"continuing-education-classes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.layschoolofministry.org\/press\/continuing-education-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuing Education Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"

2026-27 Lay School of Ministry Continuing Education<\/b><\/p>\n

Transformations: Prophets, Mystics, Healers<\/b><\/p>\n

September 11 & 12 <\/b>
Michael J. Chan, Vice President for Mission and Inclusion at Concordia College
Hopeful in the Ruins: The Prophets and the Work of Hope<\/i><\/p>\n

October 9 & 10<\/b>
Shauna Hannan, President of Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Prophetic Engagement<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n

November 13 & 14<\/strong>
Emilia Seay Allen, Theatre- and Ritual-maker, teaching artist, storytelling coach
Word Made Flesh: Embodied Storytelling<\/i><\/p>\n

December 11 & 12 (Zoom only)<\/b>
Carolyn Schneider, ELCA Missionary in Guyana
<\/span>Medieval Mystics Envision the Transformation of the Self<\/i><\/p>\n

January 8 & 9 (Zoom only)<\/b>
Ingrid Rasmussen, Lead Pastor at Holy Trinity Church, South Minneapolis
Beauty in an Age of Brutality<\/i><\/p>\n

February 12 & 13 (Zoom only)<\/b>
Amanda Avila Kaminski, Director of the Institute for Constructive Peace and Innovation
Mystics, Witches, Reformers: Encounter with the Divine as Catalyst for Moral Imagination and Innovation<\/i><\/p>\n

March 12 & 13
<\/b>Cody J. Sanders, Associate Prof of Congregational and Community Care Leadership at Luther Seminary
Cultivating Communities of Care and Healing<\/i><\/p>\n

April 9 & 10
<\/b>Toni Mattson, Trinity Equestrian Center Co-founder, Eau Claire; Author,
How God Uses Passion, Experience, and Even Pain to Reveal Purpose;
<\/i>The Ministry of Staying<\/i><\/p>\n

May 7 & 8.<\/b> TBA<\/p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.layschoolofministry.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.layschoolofministry.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.layschoolofministry.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.layschoolofministry.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.layschoolofministry.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.layschoolofministry.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"http:\/\/www.layschoolofministry.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.layschoolofministry.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}