Out of Left Field
Field education during a pandemic is preparation for an always uncertain future
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Winter 2021
20 Articles
Feature Articles
Articles
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Out of Left Field
Field education during a pandemic is preparation for an always uncertain future
Flexibility and creativity are essential if field education is to continue during a pandemic. Everything is taking longer, but educators and students are also discovering that core principles remain the same.
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How New Leaders are Stepping Up for Hispanic Churches
In the past, theological education didn’t address what Latino/a students needed to be effective in their own communities. Now programs are successfully raising up new leaders for a growing and diverse Hispanic population.
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Student Worship Now
How are seminaries fostering worship and fellowship now?
Theological schools are discovering surprising benefits to online worship: attendance by long-distance and commuter students, the opportunity for students to learn leadership skills, and an enlarged vision for creative connectivity.
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How Effective is Online Theological Education? Just Ask the Students
Data from ATS’s Graduating Student Questionnaire provides illuminating answers to whether an online education adequately and sucessfully educates students.
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On Your Mind | Letters to the Editor
Inspired by In Trust, readers are reminded to reclaim their voices as pastors and spiritual leaders.
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Listening to God’s Voice
Damaris Torres Rivera on finding the motivation to succeed
The answers to one student’s questions were found in the infinite power of the God who called her.
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Focusing on the why
Students, showing us how it’s done
In Trust Center president Amy Kardash welcomes the new year with optimism and hope as she sees how schools are caring for students and faculty.
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Relics | Paddling Pontiff
An outdoorsy cardinal visited Michigan in 1976, leaving behind a rare memento
A Michigan seminary’s rare relics.
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Future Promise | FUTURE LEADERS WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD
Stephen Lewis on conspiring with the next generation
The next generation of leaders say they want to shape a more hopeful future beyond the church’s walls — as Christian ministers, as educators, as activists, and as entrepreneurs. Is your school designing programs to prepare upcoming leaders to make a difference in the world? Or are you designing programs that sustain and maintain the…
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Present Moment | Living as One
No one created by God can be inferior, and no one can be independent. This nearly forgotten truth can be rekindled.
This is a moment to rekindle, reimagine, and reconceive the ancient conviction that humanity must live as community if we are to survive.
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Interview | Formation Nation
Edward McCormack is on a mission to develop the next generation of Christian leadership
An interview with Deacon Edward McCormack who has recently written two new books on formation advising.
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Balancing Risk and Reality
With creativity and care, schools and students are finding ways to promote communal, emotional, spiritual, and physical health
Recognizing the importance of a holistic approach to the well-being of students during the pandemic, schools and students are committed to finding effective approaches to promoting communal, emotional, spiritual, and physical health.
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What are new 2020 graduates up to?
Teaching, preaching, leading
New 2020 graduates tell us about their first places of ministry and how their education helped prepare them for their roles.
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Changing Scenes
New leaders, new board chairs, our partners
New leaders and board chairs at theological schools and our partners
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The Bliss of the Limited Perspective
When we see ourselves honestly, we help our schools too
A reminder that our own perspective is often imperfect and always limited.
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Momentous Decisions | Moving on Mission
Maintaining Vision Meant Selling the Campus
A major decision to move its campus has been transformative for Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School.
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New Members of the In Trust Center Board of Directors
New Members of the In Trust Center Board of Directors
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Podcasts Picks | From Our Ears to Yours
Five Podcasts You Won't Want to Miss
Five podcasts you won’t want to miss
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