Whitaker Online School

Welcome to The Whitaker Institute Online School! It’s our own online school where you can take dozens of courses. Enrollment is free to congregations in the Diocese of Michigan, in partnership with ChurchNext.

Already have an account? Click here to login to the Whitaker Online School:  https://whitakeronline.pathwright.com/

Intersted in an acccount? Please email the Rev. Canon Susie Shaefer for a registration link!

Looking for Diocese of Michigan courses and resources on anti-racism and spirituality? Click here.

RACIAL JUSTICE COURSES – Watch short intro video here!

• Whiteness and Racial Justice By Kelly Brown Douglas
• Theology and Racial Justice By J. Kameron Carter
• Reparation and Racial Justice By Jennifer Harvey
• Racism and Racial Justice By Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• Spirituality and Racial Justice By Presiding Bishop Michael Curry

Here is a partial list of other available courses:

1. Angels in Artwork
2. Make Me an Instrument of Peace: A Guide to Civil Discourse
3. The Living Diet
4. Mr. Rogers’ Simple Faith
5. Introducing Islam with Mustapha Elturk
6. Introducing Judaism with Joseph Krakoff
7. The Episcopal Way with Eric Law and Stephanie Spellers
8. Designing Liturgy
9. Introducing Church Marketing with Jake Dell
10. Introducing the Altar Guild with Hobey Hinchman
11. Introducing Stewardship with Kristine Miller
12. Crisis Communications with Meredith Gould
13. Deepening the Spirituality of Your Congregation with Graham Standish
14. Radical Welcoming with Stephanie Spellers
15. Building a Spiritually Mature Congregation with Thomas Bergler
16. Talking about Same Gender Unions with Jeffrey Lee
17. Digital Strategies for Churches with Kyle Oliver
18. Re-Inventing Your Church Board with Dan Hotchkiss
19. My Church Is Not Dying: Finding Hope in Mainline Churches
20. What Vibrant Congregations Do
21. Five Keys to Renewing Your Church with Jay Sidebotham
22. The Vestry Journey
23. Vision and the Vestry
24. Vestry Team Building and Conflict
25. Ministering with Millennials
26. The Ministry of Acolytes 5: An Acolyte’s Way of Life
27. The Spirituality of the Book of Common Prayer with Karl Ruttan
28. Praying the Collects with Ellen Wondra
29. Introducing the Gospels with Michael Card

And dozens more – with new courses added every month!