Title: Church of the Brethren webcast series is launched March 2, 2007 Church of the Brethren News Service Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford, News Director 800-323-8039 ext. 260 -- cobnews@brethren.org
CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN WEBCAST SERIES IS LAUNCHED
(March 2, 2007) Elgin, IL -- Webcasts--sometimes called "podcasts"-- are now being offered through a joint project of several Church of the Brethren agencies and the denomination's Annual Conference. Sponsors include the Association of Brethren Caregivers, Bethany Theological Seminary, Brethren Benefit Trust, the Church of the Brethren Credit Union, the General Board, and On Earth Peace.
Initiative for the project came from Bethany Seminary, which is hosting the webcasts at www.cobwebcast.bethanyseminary.edu, with impetus from Enten Eller, the seminary's director of Distributed Education and Electronic Communication, who is serving as executive producer for the webcast series.
Every two weeks, coinciding with each issue of Newsline, a Brethren news list serv, new audio webcasts will be offered featuring information from one of the agencies. Webcasts may be listened to online using most computers by visiting www.cobwebcast.bethanyseminary.edu, or they may be downloaded and played on an MP3 player. Free subscriptions (through an RSS feed) are also offered. For more information, visit the cobwebcast website listed above.
Inaugural webcasts issued Feb. 28 are about the socially responsible investment (SRI) ministry of Brethren Benefit Trust. Interviews with Eller and Nevin Dulabaum, director of Communications and interim director of Socially Responsible Investing for Brethren Benefit Trust, and Dawn Wolfe of the staff of Boston Common Asset Management, tell the story of how Brethren-owned shares helped launch a landmark move by insurance company Aflac, the first US corporation to give shareholders a nonbinding vote on executive compensation.
For more information go to www.cobwebcast.bethanyseminary.edu, or contact Enten Eller at Bethany Theological Seminary, 800-287-8822 ext. 1831 or webcast@bethanyseminary.edu.
The Church of the Brethren is a Christian denomination committed to continuing the work of Jesus peacefully and simply, and to living out its faith in community. The denomination is based in the Anabaptist and Pietist faith traditions and is one of the three Historic Peace Churches. It celebrates its 300th anniversary in 2008. It counts about 130,000 members across the United States and Puerto Rico, and has missions and sister churches in Nigeria, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and India.
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For more information contact:
Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford Director of News Services Church of the Brethren General Board 1451 Dundee Ave., Elgin, IL 60120 800-323-8039 ext. 260 cobnews@brethren.org
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