It’s more than unmuted…
Virtual meetings are here to stay. Two governance experts offer advice on making them work
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Summer 2024
21 Articles
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Articles
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It’s more than unmuted…
Virtual meetings are here to stay. Two governance experts offer advice on making them work
Yes, we’re in in a virtual world – but how make that work, that’s the trick.
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Beware the risks of exceptionalism
Theological education is in a kairos moment, the author asserts, characterized by self-reliance and distinctive separateness. It is time to embrace a common good?
Theological education’s preoccupation with preeminence is creating a decided arrogance among our schools, evidenced in optimistic self-reliance and independence, Rod Wilson writes. A kingdom perspective that values collaboration may be a necessary remedy.
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Synchronicity
With the support of Lilly Endowment Pathways grants, a providential confluence of vision, execution, and mission has unified Kairos University around competency-based education
To call Kairos University’s success with competency-based education an experiment diminishes the vision and hard work that has fueled its extraordinary growth. Now entering its second decade, the school is leveraging a Lilly Endowment Pathways for Tomorrow grant to secure its vision.
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Being in Community
Finding our place, both in person and online, is vital
The ways we experience community continue to shift, with repercussions for theological education where certain critical virtues should pertain. I am curious to know how many communities are hybrid or fully online out of convenience rather than design.
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On Your Mind | Letters to the Editor
Your thoughts about theological education, including on chaplaincy innovation and simulator training for ministers
I loved Richard Topping’s “Theology Through the Lens.” I admired the photographs, products of this re-creation.
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A future based in reality
Wesley’s David McAllister-Wilson reflects on finding the ground between ‘Chicken Little’ and the bluebird of happiness
With more than 40 years at Wesley Theological Seminary, David McAllister-Wilson considers what boards and leaders in theological education should consider when they look ahead.
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Podcast picks | From our ears to yours
Common sense for leaders coping with change
These podcasts will help provide a way to work through change.
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Present Moment | Bright past, bold future
Reflections on “time within a time” at New York Theological
New York Theological Seminary’s 120-plus-year legacy will continue in partnership
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Two-way street for understanding
New video series interprets Judaism for Christian seminarians
Female leaders can face a “double-bind” dilemma, which can create difficulty in leading
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Future Promise | Sincere encouragement
The critical role of the student board member
Boards should consider finding ways to keep students and young alumni invested in board work
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Better together
Three Chicago schools decided to share a campus. Now it’s a model of ecumenical collaboration.
When the academic school year commenced in fall 2023 at Catholic Theological Union (CTU), a new presence graced its Chicago campus – or rather, presences.
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The Census | How do you pay for an education?
Paying for a theological comes at a cost – both to the student and the school
The tension between the cost of a theological education to a student and the cost to the institution is something we’d like your opinion on.
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Remark(able) | For Board Reflections
When should a board consider hiring an interim executive leader?
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Who’s missing at the table?
Lexington Theological Seminary’s experiment with prior learning
In Lexington, a Pathways program focuses on newcomers to the field and ways to give credit to people for their life experience and learning.
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Relics | Simply divine
Perkins’ Dante Festival made a special collection a little more special
One school’s art collection includes modern artifacts to commemorate the life of the Italian poet.
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Books, Film, & Music | Meaningful summer reads and movies
Two books and two films to give your mind and soul a summertime fill
These books and films provide new insights into history, power, and spiritual development
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How We Lived | “…Only Witnessing”
Recalling the 1964 Theological Students' Vigil for Civil Rights
Theological students from a variety of backgrounds held a vigil that pressed for change in Civil Rights.
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Three’s a charm
Awards | In Trust magazine logs another year of recognition
For the third straight year, and the first time ever, In Trust magazine has placed in the top awards of the Associated Church Press’ contest.
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Devoted leadership
Rock solid | Colin Godwin on the spiritual practices of a board
The work of a board has a spiritual nature. At Carey Theological College, the board is tapping into that.
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