After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))

The question is not what they should know. Too many educational institutions are lost in that question, looking obsessively at the commodities of learning. The question is, what should be the shape of the journey to know? What should be the character of the search? How might there be a shared inwardness that opens the joy of not knowing inside the

It is not only life formed in fragment but also life formed as fragment, that is, life formed in reduction.

Fragment in this first sense is a reality of being creatures who can only apprehend with our senses—in bites, in touches, in smells, in sounds, and in focused but shifting sight. We live in the reality of these pieces where the world is always too much for us to hold all at once. We creatures live in pieces, and we come to know our redemption in pi

These two ways of educating born of the master’s house have never been mutually exclusive. Both education as master formation and education as emancipatory weapon aim at cultivating mastery—the freedom of mastery (moral formation) or the mastery of freedom (emancipation)—and both silence the sound of a door opening to a life together, toward a form

The urgent work calling us in theological education is to touch the divine reality of longing, to enter into its power and newness as the logic inside the work of gathering

It grew beautifully and powerfully inside of colonialism and colonial Christianity, took hold inside the educational foundations of the modern West, and now constantly flashes across the cognitive landscape of the educated imagination. The formation of the self-sufficient man has always been the greatest temptation for Christian formation because C

That desire to see a changed world must be allowed to find its connection to the desire for one another.

faculty line up their intellectual loves with their desire to instill their particular vision of orthodoxy or their desire to form students in a theological radicalism that they believe will free us from the problems of orthodoxy.

a design that aims to teach her and us what to see and what to ignore, especially in ourselves.