The Apostolic Johannite Church is pleased to announce a welcome addition to its already substantial Conclave lineup – Dr. Gregory Singleton.
Gregory Holmes Singleton is a native of Alabama, and a resident of Chicago for the past 43 years. Prior to settling in the Chicago area in 1970, he lived in California (earning his B.A. in History, Philosophy and English at California State University, Northridge), New York City (earning his M.Div. at Union Theological Seminary), and back to California (earning his Ph.D. in History at UCLA). He has taught at Northwestern University, Seabury-Western Seminary, and Northeastern Illinois University, where he became Professor of History Emeritus upon his retirement in 2005. Singleton was a post-doctoral fellow in social theory at the Committee for Social Thought (University of Chicago) and a senior research fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion (University of Chicago). He has published widely on the social, intellectual and cultural history of religion in the United States.
Dr. Singleton will be speaking on The (relatively small) Limitations and (ENORMOUS) Advantages of Educating and Forming Clergy on a Shoestring Budget.
Dr. Singleton has four decades of experience in secular higher education, teaching as an adjunct in a mainline seminary, and coordinating the education and formation of prospective clergy and the continuing education of clergy and laity in small Independent Sacramental Movement communities. He will lay out both the limitations and advantages (as well as the opportunities and pitfalls) of planning, implementing and sustaining educational and formational programs in small communities with limited financial resources. Following that, he will invite open and extended discussion of both conceptual and pragmatic issues associated with this topic.
For more information, see his curriculum vitae and list of on-line articles and blogs