This event is brought to you by the department of Lifelong Learning at Virginia Theological Seminary

Are you ready to ditch the one-size-fits-all social network platforms? Have you considered using a customizable private social network platform for your faith community? Join Matthew David Morris, “Mother Superior” for The Chapel, a private social network and online chapel founded by Nadia Bolz-Weber in conversation with Keith Anderson, Associate for Digital Content for Lifelong Learning at Virginia Theological Seminary, on how to use customizable private social networks for building your unique digital community within your context.

Matthew David Morris is an Anglo/Hispano priest living in Denver, Colorado who currently serves as the director, organizer, and visioner for The Chapel, a private social network and online chapel founded by Nadia Bolz-Weber. His most recent responsibilities in diocese ministry included serving as a Digital Resources Specialist for the Bishop of Oregon in 2020, helping clergy and congregations overcome the changes and challenges of hybrid ministry in the present moment. He’s a graduate of Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado as well as an artist, a teacher, a cultivator of good questions, and a lover of the human heart.

The Rev. Keith Anderson is a pastor ordained in the ELCA and a popular author and speaker on how our digitally-integrated and networked culture shapes faith and the practice of ministry. Keith's work focuses on the understanding and use of social media and digital technologies for ministry, ministering in a culture of increasing religious non-affiliation, and extending ministry and the Gospel beyond our church buildings into local and digital gathering spaces. Keith is a pastor at Upper Dublin Lutheran Church in Ambler, Pennsylvania, and he is the author of The Digital Cathedral: Networked Ministry in a Wireless World (Morehouse, 2015) and co-author with Elizabeth Drescher of Click2Save Reboot: The Digital Ministry Bible (Church Publishing, 2018), the second edition of their popular book. Keith is also the Associate for Digital Content for Lifelong Learning at Virginia Theological Seminary.

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