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College students and young professionals gather at a home worship service hosted by Carey and Gannon Sims (upper left), the co-directors of a campus ministry in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Photos by Mike Morones

Christian Leadership, Education, Higher education

A campus ministry thrives in the pandemic by appealing to young people and planting house churches

In a student ministry at the University of Mary Washington, two pastors have overseen the birth of several house churches by relying on the power of creativity and connection.

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Education, Seminary, Innovation, Institutional innovation

The task for a new day

In selections from his latest book, “Beyond Profession,” the former executive director of The Association of Theological Schools draws on his experience and shares his vision as part of the Theological Education Between the Times series.

Libby Davis Manning, her husband and a friend tend to the beehives on her Indiana farm. Photos courtesy of Libby Davis Manning

Christian Leadership, Innovation, Education

Libby Davis Manning: What I learned about ministry from beekeeping

“Terroir,” the word for the local environmental factors that give a particular wine or honey its distinctive flavor, can be applied to ministry, writes the director of the Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program.

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Education, Seminary, Innovation, Institutional innovation

Mark Jordan: The puzzles of teaching Christian tradition

Theology teachers need, not new systems or solutions, but a renewed commitment to formation, writes a professor at Harvard Divinity School for the Theological Education Between the Times series.

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Education, Seminary, Innovation, Institutional innovation

Amos Yong: Theological education is the work of the Spirit

In a new book for the Theological Education Between the Times series, a leader at Fuller Theological Seminary draws on his professional experience and his church tradition to offer a path forward.

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Education, Seminary, Innovation, Institutional innovation

Chloe Sun: Listening to the voices of the silence -- the politics beyond intercultural competence

As part of the Theological Education Between the Times series, a seminary professor writes about the effects of endemic power structures on students who come from abroad to study in the West.

In his new book, Jennings discusses this image, "Family worship in a plantation in South Carolina," which illustrates what he calls the racial paterfamilias. Image courtesy of The New York Public Library digital collections

Education, Seminary, Innovation, Institutional innovation

Willie James Jennings: By naming the foundational problems of theological education, we can aspire to an alternative vision

In the inaugural book of the Theological Education Between the Times series, an associate professor at Yale Divinity School describes his hope for forming gatherers of people rather than sustainers of an old, sick model of domination.

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Education, Seminary, Innovation, Institutional innovation

Ted A. Smith: Finding a faithful way forward for theological education

A new series of books explores the challenges faced by schools preparing the next generation of theology scholars and other religious leaders, writes the director of the project that is bringing together diverse groups of people with a stake in theological education.

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Education, Seminary, Christian Leadership, Management

Frank Yamada: Theological schools are diverse, and the pandemic will affect them differently

The long-term financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic remains to be seen, but the struggles will be as diverse as the schools themselves, says the executive director of The Association of Theological Schools.

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Reconciliation, Racial & ethnic, Education, K-12

Ellen Ann Fentress: When your high school has a racist history

As graduates of segregation academies confront their pasts, the churches that helped create and sustain the schools must as well.

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A campus ministry thrives in the pandemic by appealing to young people and planting house churches

The task for a new day

Libby Davis Manning: What I learned about ministry from beekeeping

Mark Jordan: The puzzles of teaching Christian tradition

Amos Yong: Theological education is the work of the Spirit

Chloe Sun: Listening to the voices of the silence -- the politics beyond intercultural competence

Willie James Jennings: By naming the foundational problems of theological education, we can aspire to an alternative vision

Ted A. Smith: Finding a faithful way forward for theological education

Frank Yamada: Theological schools are diverse, and the pandemic will affect them differently

Ellen Ann Fentress: When your high school has a racist history

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