An online full semester course on Dynamic Youth Ministry will be offered this fall by Starr King School for the Ministry. Topics include leadership, spiritual development, professional support for youth advisers, denominational polity, adolescent life issues, building intergenerational community, and an analysis of various models of youth ministry and programming.

Registration is open from August 23 to September 3. Contact instructors Megan Dowdell or Betty-Jeanne Rueters-Ward for a course syllabus or to register. Tuition is $1,808. The course begins September 8.

Other online courses this fall at Starr King include: Introduction to Liberal Religious Education, by Helen Bishop; UU Journey Toward Wholeness, the Rev. Sean Parker Dennison; Organizational Systems Thinking for Religious Leaders, Helen Bishop; Our Theological House: An Introduction to Theology for Unitarian Universalists, the Rev. John Buehrens; Aging and Religious Leadership, the Rev. Dr. Devorah Greenstein; Congregational Polity, the Rev. Mark Harris.

A complete course list is available on the Starr King website.

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Don Skinner

Don Skinner is editor of InterConnections and a member of the Shawnee Mission UU Church in Lenexa, Kansas.

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