Fall 2022 | Cover Photo and Introductory Note

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

Cover photo by Johannes Plenio/Unsplash