Smart Giving with Fr. John Blossom

Tuesday, December 10 | 12 p.m. (Central)

Join us for a presentation and Q&A with the Rev. Canon John Blossom, an Episcopal priest and planned giving expert. Blossom will provide an overview of various types of giving (including immediate gifts, deferred gifts, and gifts that increase personal income) to help you find ways to maximize your charitable contributions.

During his 50 years of ministry as a priest, Blossom has worked in inner city parishes and start-up parishes and  as Canon for Evangelism of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in Peoria, Illinois. Father Blossom served the church as a non-stipendiary priest, and in his secular life he built a nationally prominent retirement plan administration and investment advisory company which he sold in 2020. He currently serves as Vice President -Planned Giving for the Brotherhood of St. Andrew.

 

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Evelyn Underhill’s Prayer Book: Passionate Prayers from across the Centuries

Tuesday, February 4 | 7 p.m. (Central)

Dr. Robyn Wrigley-Carr is Associate Professor in Spirituality and Spiritual Care at the University of Divinity in Australia. Her PhD (University of St. Andrews, Scotland) examined Baron Friedrich von Hügel as a spiritual director. Subsequent research has focused upon the writings of Evelyn Underhill, one of von Hügel’s spiritual directees. Dr. Wrigley-Carr is the author of The Spiritual Formation of Evelyn Underhill (2020) and Music of Eternity: Meditations for Advent with Evelyn Underhill (The Archbishop of York’s Advent Book, 2021). She discovered and edited Evelyn Underhill’s Prayer Book (2018).

Dr. Wrigly-Carr is the keynote speaker of the 2025 Breck Conference.

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Past Essentials in Ministry Webinars

Mental Health and the Parish
Matthew S. Stanford, PhD, Hope and Healing Center, Houston
Clergy Finance Issues
Toni Marie Sutliff and Zach Peterson, Church Pension Group
Preventing and Responding to Abuse
The Rt. Rev. Justin Holcomb, Bishop of Central Florida
Energizing the Laity through Mission and Outreach
Cynthia Efird, retired U.S. Ambassador to Angola
Sacramental Preaching
The Rev. Dr. Hans Boersma, Nashotah House
Transforming your Ministry Spaces into Places of Healing
Abel Makahamadze, ZimWorx
A Crash Course in Fundraising for your Church
Robin Little, Nashotah House
Galatians & Pastoral Care
The Rev. Dr. Wesley Hill, Western Theological Seminary
Parish Evangelism
Carrie Boren Headington, Canon for Evangelism, Episcopal Diocese of Dallas