Amana Colonies seminar offers continuing education credits.

"The Other Stream: Alternative Forms of Radical Pietism" is a continuing education opportunity for clergy, ministry students, and others. The seminar July 5-6 in Amana, Iowa, follows the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference in Des Moines. It is offered by the Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership and the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies.

Participants will study the influence of radical pietism on the Brethren through a study of the Amana Colonies, home of the Community of True Inspiration which co-existed and interacted with the early Brethren in Europe. The community came to America much later than the Brethren and settled in Iowa, where it developed several villages operated as a communal society until the mid-twentieth century.

The seminar will begin at 3 p.m. on July 5 with a tour of the Amana Heritage Museum. On July 6 participants will meet at the Amana Church. Leaders will include David Eller, Wally Landes, Jim Benedict, and Jeff Bach from the Church of the Brethren, and Lanny Haldy and Peter Hoehnle from the Amana Church Society.

Cost is $80, and covers entrance into the Amana Heritage Museum, a bus tour, "Amana People: History of a Religious Community" by Peter Hoehnle, some meals, and continuing education credit. Participants are responsible for their own lodging.

To register or for more information, contact the Young Center at youngctr@etown.edu. Training in Ministry students who wish to create a course for credit should contact their advisors. Registration deadline is May 15.

Source: 4/12/2006 Newsline
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