Fall 2022 | Audacious Odysseys: Charting the Future of Theological Education - Introduction and Cover Photo

How to prepare future ministers, scholars, and theologically minded public leaders for times like these? Amid the churn of forces—the volatile role of religion in society, the reckonings around justice, the ordeal of student debt, the politics of polarization—is theological education in crisis? These Reflections contributors meet the unsettled moment by speaking to the most urgent questions and strategies. There’s no one path forward, but what the YDS-related writers share is a conviction to move into the unknown future with creativity, hope, and audacity. As YDS professor Joyce Mercer ’84 M.Div. puts it, “What’s this rambunctious spirit of God asking of us?”

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