2015 Christian Leadership Forum Booklet

CHRISTIAN

LEADERSHIP

FORUM JUNE 3 - 6 | DALLAS, TEXAS

ACTIVE

FAITH MATTERS #FTEforum15

TABLE OF CONTENTS

YOUNG ADULTS

Agenda .......................................................... 1 Idea Lab Descriptions ................................... 6

COHORT

Featured Leadership ...................................... 8 Idea Lab Leadership ..................................... 9

Peer Group Leadership .............................. 11

“An ACTIVE FAITH not only moves out to engage and

Doctoral Students Cohort Leadership ..... 12 Institutional Doctoral Network Partners .... 13 and Additional Leadership Church & Church-Related Partners ........... 14 Cohort Participants

care for the world beyond oneself, but also has the vision to

Young Adults Cohort Participants .............. 16 Social Media Information .......................... 23 Doctoral Students Cohort Participants ...... 24 Institutional Doctoral Network Partners .... 28

imagine and the capacity to move the world towards

Cohort Participants Blogging Information ................................... 29 Venue Map and Information ...................... 30

greater justice and mercy. ” - Tat-Siong Benny Liew

Emergency Information .............................. 32 Travel Reimbursement Information ............ 33 FTE Team ........................................................ 34

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CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP FORUM AGENDA TUESDAY, JUNE 2 - NURTURING A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE 2:00 – 5:00 pm 6:30 – 7:30 pm

Grantees Arrival & Registration .................................................... Lodge Lobby Dinner ....................................................................................... Royal Coachman

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3 - SETTING THE TABLE 7:00 – 8:30 am 8:30 am – 12:00 pm 12:00 – 1:00 pm 1:00 – 3:00 pm

1:00 – 4:00 pm 2:00 – 3:00 pm 4:00 – 5:00 pm 5:15 – 6:15 pm

Breakfast ................................................................................. Royal Coachman Pre-Forum Grantees Meeting ...................................................... Americana II Lunch ..................................................................................... Royal Coachman Pre-Forum Grantees Meeting ........................................................ Americana II Doctoral Faculty Orientation ............................................................. Lonestar Forum Registration .......................................................................... Lodge Lobby Forum Leadership Team Meeting ..................................... 3E24A (Eagle Wing) Christian Leadership Forum Opening .............................................. Black Hawk Peer Group Reflections ........................................................... Breakout Rooms YOUNG ADULTS

EAGLE WING Group 1 – Jennifer Bailey ............................................................................... 3E27 Group 2 – Jeremy Battle ................................................................................. 3E13 Group 3 – Kenny Clewett .............................................................................. 3E14 Group 4 – Edwin Estevez ................................................................................ 3E15 Group 5 – Linda Jiménez ............................................................................... 3E16 Group 6 – Kit Novotny .................................................................................... 3E22 Group 7 – Tuhina Rasche .............................................................................. 3E23 Group 8 – Tyler Sit .......................................................................................... 3E26 CHURCH & CHURCH-RELATED PARTNERS

EAGLE WING Group 9 – Midwestern Regional Peer Group ............................................ 3E24A Group 10 – Mid-Atlantic Regional Peer Group ....................................... 3E24B Group 11 – Southern Regional Peer Group ........................................... 3E25A Group 12 – Western Regional Peer Group ........................................... 3E25B DOCTORAL STUDENTS

st nd Group 13 – 1 & 2 Year Doctoral Students .................................... Americana I Group 14 – ABD & Doctoral Dissertation Fellows .......................... Americana II INSTITUTIONAL DOCTORAL NETWORK Group 15 ............................................................................................... Lonestar

2 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3 - SETTING THE TABLE (CONTINUED) 6:15 – 6:30 pm 6:30 – 7:30 pm

Break .......................................................................................................................

Dinner ...................................................................................... Royal Coachman

THURSDAY, JUNE 4 - EXPLORING IDEAS & THEMES 7:00 – 8:00 am 8:15 – 8:45 am

Breakfast ................................................................................ Royal Coachman Community Worship ........................................................................ Black Hawk

9:00 – 10:30 am

Morning Session WHY AN ACTIVE FAITH MATTERS .................................................... Black Hawk Featured Leaders: Bishop Minerva Carcaño, California-Pacific Conference & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Founder, Rutba House; Associate Minister, St. Johns Missionary Baptist Church All Participants 10:30 – 11:00 am

Break .......................................................................................................................

11:00 am – 12:30 pm Morning Sessions

WHY LEADERSHIP MATTERS AND HOW THE CHURCH .................... Black Hawk AND ACADEMY CAN MAKE AN IMPACT IN THE WORLD

Young Adults, Church & Church-Related Partners, and Institutional Doctoral Network DOCTORAL STUDENT WORKSHOPS

MERCURY WING st

1 Year Students ........................................................................................... M103 2nd Year Students ...................................................................................... M104A Pre-Dissertation Fellows ............................................................................. M104B

ABD & Dissertation Fellows .......................................................................... M105 12:30 – 2:00 pm

Lunch ..................................................................................... Royal Coachman

2:00 – 3:00 pm

Afternoon Sessions EMBODYING WHAT MATTERS ......................................................... Black Hawk Leader: Patrick Reyes Young Adults, Church & Church-Related Partners, and Institutional Doctoral Network

DOCTORAL STUDENT WORKSHOPS

MERCURY WING

1st Year Students ........................................................................................... M103 2nd Year Students ...................................................................................... M104A Pre-Dissertation Fellows ............................................................................. M104B

ABD & Dissertation Fellows .......................................................................... M105 3:00 – 3:30 pm

Break .......................................................................................................................

3 THURSDAY, JUNE 4 - EXPLORING IDEAS & THEMES (CONTINUED) 3:30 – 5:00 pm IDEA LABS EAGLE WING

Young Adults and Church & Church-Related Partners

Lab 1 – To Serve This Present Age: ............................................................... 3E12

Mobilizing and Organizing for Transformative Justice

Lab 2 – God is Hungry: Building a Faithful Food System ............................. 3E13

Lab 3 – Liturgy on the Streets ........................................................................ 3E14

Lab 4 – Faith and Formation: A Lifelong Journey ....................................... 3E15

Lab 5 – Planting New Ministry ..................................................................... 3E16

Lab 6 – As Some of Your Own Poets Have Said: ..................................... 3E23

Faith, Hip Hop, and Proclamation

Lab 7 – Faithful Resistance: The Radical Mandate of Micah 6:8 .......... 3E26

Lab 8 – Authenticity in Beloved Community ............................................ 3E27

Lab 9 – Building Up Beloved Community: .............................................. 3E25A

Social Knitting in a Fragmented World

DOCTORAL STUDENT WORKSHOPS

MERCURY WING st 1 Year Students ........................................................................................ M103

2nd Year Students .................................................................................... M104A Pre-Dissertation Fellows .......................................................................... M104B

ABD & Dissertation Fellows ....................................................................... M105

INSTITUTIONAL DOCTORAL NETWORK CONVERSATIONS .................. Lonestar 5:15 – 6:15 pm

Peer Group Reflections ......................................................... Breakout Rooms YOUNG ADULTS

EAGLE WING Group 1 – Jennifer Bailey ............................................................................ 3E27 Group 2 – Jeremy Battle .............................................................................. 3E13 Group 3 – Kenny Clewett .......................................................................... 3E14 Group 4 – Edwin Estevez ............................................................................. 3E15 Group 5 – Linda Jiménez ............................................................................ 3E16 Group 6 – Kit Novotny ................................................................................. 3E22 Group 7 – Tuhina Rasche ............................................................................. 3E23 Group 8 – Tyler Sit ........................................................................................ 3E26 CHURCH & CHURCH-RELATED PARTNERS

EAGLE WING Group 9 – Midwestern Regional Peer Group ....................................... 3E24A Group 10 – Mid-Atlantic Regional Peer Group ...................................... 3E24B Group 11 – Southern Regional Peer Group ......................................... 3E25A Group 12 – Western Regional Peer Group ........................................... 3E25B

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4 THURSDAY, JUNE 4 - EXPLORING IDEAS & THEMES (CONTINUED) 5:15 – 6:15 pm

Peer Group Reflections ......................................................... Breakout Rooms DOCTORAL STUDENTS

st nd Group 13 – 1 & 2 Year Doctoral Students .................................. Americana I Group 14 – ABD & Doctoral Dissertation Fellows ....................... Americana II INSTITUTIONAL DOCTORAL NETWORK Group 15 ............................................................................................... Lonestar

6:30 – 7:00 pm 7:00 – 8:00 pm

Evening Prayers ............................................................................... Black Hawk Dinner ................................................................................... Royal Coachman

FRIDAY, JUNE 5 - REFLECTING AND IMAGINING NEXT FAITHFUL STEPS 7:00 – 8:00 am 8:15 – 8:45 am

Breakfast ................................................................................ Royal Coachman Community Worship ........................................................................ Black Hawk

9:00 – 10:30 am

Morning Session SENSING WHAT’S EMERGING NOW Young Adults and Church & Church-Related Partners .............. Black Hawk Doctoral Students and Institutional Doctoral Network .............. Americana II

10:30 – 11:00 am

Break .....................................................................................................................

11:00 am – 12:30 pm Morning Sessions INTEGRATION FORUMS: IDEAS + PRACTICES ................................ Black Hawk Young Adults and Church & Church-Related Partners DISCERNING OUR NEXT FAITHFUL STEPS ...................................... Americana II Doctoral Students and Institutional Doctoral Network 12:30 – 2:00 pm

Lunch ..................................................................................... Royal Coachman

2:00 – 3:30 pm

Afternoon Sessions DISCERNING OUR NEXT FAITHFUL STEPS ........................................ Black Hawk Young Adults and Church & Church-Related Partners

DOCTORAL STUDENT WORKSHOPS

MERCURY WING

1st Year Students ......................................................................................... M103 2nd Year Students .................................................................................... M104A

Pre-Dissertation Fellows .......................................................................... M104B

ABD & Dissertation Fellows ...................................................................... M105

INSTITUTIONAL DOCTORAL NETWORK CONVERSATIONS .................. Lonestar

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Break ....................................................................................................................

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5 FRIDAY, JUNE 5 - REFLECTING AND IMAGINING NEXT FAITHFUL STEPS (CONTINUED) 4:00 – 5:00 pm

Afternoon Sessions Continue ..............................................................................

5:15 – 6:15 pm

Peer Group Reflections ............................................................ Breakout Rooms YOUNG ADULTS

EAGLE WING Group 1 – Jennifer Bailey ............................................................................. 3E27 Group 2 – Jeremy Battle ............................................................................... 3E13 Group 3 – Kenny Clewett ........................................................................... 3E14 Group 4 – Edwin Estevez ............................................................................... 3E15 Group 5 – Linda Jiménez ............................................................................... 3E16 Group 6 – Kit Novotny .................................................................................... 3E22 Group 7 – Tuhina Rasche .............................................................................. 3E23 Group 8 – Tyler Sit .......................................................................................... 3E26 CHURCH & CHURCH-RELATED PARTNERS

EAGLE WING Group 9 – Midwestern Regional Peer Group ........................................... 3E24A Group 10 – Mid-Atlantic Regional Peer Group ....................................... 3E24B Group 11 – Southern Regional Peer Group ........................................... 3E25A Group 12 – Western Regional Peer Group ............................................. 3E25B DOCTORAL STUDENTS

Group 13 – 1st & 2nd Year Doctoral Students .................................... Americana I Group 14 – ABD & Doctoral Dissertation Fellows .......................... Americana II INSTITUTIONAL DOCTORAL NETWORK Group 15 ............................................................................................... Lonestar

6:30 – 7:00 pm 7:00 – 10:00 pm

Evening Prayers ............................................................................... Black Hawk Dinner & Entertainment ......................................................... CR Smith Museum

SATURDAY, JUNE 6 - BEARING WITNESS TO OUR INTENTIONS FOR THE FUTURE 7:00 – 9:00 am

Breakfast and Checkout .................................................... Royal Coachman

9:00 – 10:30 am

Morning Session NEXT FAITHFUL STEPS, REFLECTIONS AND EVALUATION Young Adults and Church & Church-Related Partners .............. Black Hawk Doctoral Students and Institutional Doctoral Network .............. Americana II

10:30 – 11:00 am

Break .....................................................................................................................

11:00 am – 12:00 pm Closing Worship ............................................................................... Black Hawk Rev. Dionne Boissière, Chaplain of the Church Center for the United Nations 12:00 pm

Lunch and Departure

Royal Coachman

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IDEA LAB DESCRIPTIONS CHURCH-BASED JUSTICE ADVOCACY

FAITH AND FORMATION

To Serve This Present Age: Mobilizing and

Faith and Formation: A Lifelong Journey

Organizing for Transformative Justice

GERI MCKENZIE

DANIELLE AYERS

After reflecting on one’s own call journey,

The 21st century has brought on many challenges

participants will engage in conversation around the

for local and global communities such as

importance of balance between actively living out

mass incarceration, human and sex trafficking,

their faith and being still in order to listen to God’s

immigration reform, police brutality, social inequity,

call and direction in their lives. Sources and ways to

failing public schools, globalization and lack of

connect, encourage and support young leaders

economic upward mobility just to name a few.

will be offered.

What can be done to mobilize and organize for permanent change? How can we craft narratives and ideas that will spark movements with local,

MISSIONAL INNOVATION

national and international implications? What is the role of faith communities in envisioning a new

Planting New Ministry

America? This Idea Lab will focus on how to build

EDWIN ESTEVEZ & TYLER SIT

and sustain transformative justice movements that

Do you love your community and want to seed

lead to restored relationships, positive change,

a new ministry for unreached people? For

new frameworks and a rich togetherness that are

whom does your heart break? Where are your

spiritual, social and political. Idea Lab participants

gifts leading you? What are new ways for us to

will also spend time creatively thinking and

be the church in our changing times? Church

planning on how they will serve this present age.

planters Edwin Estevez and Tyler Sit will explore the character and competencies of a “planter” and how to step into the outward frontier of ministry.

FOOD AND FAITH

Participants will leave with deeper discernment around their own planter identity and the next

God is Hungry: Building a Faithful Food System

growing edges for ministry.

JENNIFER BAILEY This idea lab examines the faith-rooted movements

Authenticity in Beloved Community

that are changing our food system. Who are

EMILY MCGINLEY

the people fighting the injustices of our food

In a world of segmentation and increasing division,

system? How do we build a food system where

how do we faithfully bear witness to God’s vision

everyone has access to good food regardless of

of beloved community? As leaders of the next, our

income? Storytelling activities will engage you in

capacity to call out and call into being this vision

understanding social movements and envisioning

demands wisdom, courage, and deep authenticity

a new way we can grow and eat our food. See

rooted in a faith that seeks understanding. We’ll

examples of faith-rooted food justice and food

explore what our traditions offer as tools for

sovereignty movements and find out more about

understanding and building spaces that lead to

how you can get involved to support local and

greater authenticity in beloved community.

global struggles!

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INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY

FAITH & LITURGY (WORK OF THE PEOPLE)

Building Up Beloved Community:

Liturgy on the Streets

Social Knitting in a Fragmented World

ASHLEY GOFF

JONATHAN WILSON-HARTGROVE

What does it mean to take liturgy to the streets? What

One challenge of vocational discernment in 21st-

happens to our understanding of liturgy when it is

century America is that individuals are often trying

experienced outside a church building? How does

to discern their role in a broader community while

liturgy in the public square birth creativity, power

at the same time not knowing where they belong...

and community? How was liturgy used in Occupy

or whether anyone else has found their true home,

Wall Street? What liturgical principles were at work in

for that matter. The individual’s struggle is personal,

Ferguson die-ins? Liturgy on the streets is liturgy that

for sure. But she is not alone. The prevalence of

erupts in a public context. It can be planned. It can

this experience indicates that we face more than

be spontaneous. In this workshop we will explore liturgy

a challenge on young adulthood; this is a cultural

on the streets and the role it plays in a community

crisis of community formation. Join Jonathan Wilson-

engaged in active faith. We will also look at Church of

Hartgrove for a conversation about what fragments our

the Pilgrims (PCUSA) and its practices of street liturgy as

communities and how the social knitting of community

an example of a congregation taking liturgy outside its

building may be essential to genuine vocational

walls .

discernment in our time.

“As Some of Your Own Poets Have Said”:

FAITH AND GOVERNMENT

Faith, Hip Hop, and Proclamation MICHAEL WATERS Description: With Acts 17:16-34 - the Apostle Paul’s

Faithful Resistance: The Radical Mandate of Micah 6:8

sermon before the Areopagus in Athens - offering

DIONNE BOISSIÈRE

Biblical precedent for homiletically engaging cultural

How do we view our mandate to act justly through

artifacts as an authentic witness of Christian Faith, we

both a local and global lens? What does justice look

will explore hip hop lyricism as a necessary theological

like from a comprehensive Christian worldview? What

conversation partner for preaching, by engaging

is faithful action not just in a global context but with a

seminal hip hop recordings and developing a practical

global conscientiousness? What is so radical about

theology model towards its engagement.

the Micah 6:8 mandate? How can we understand our role as faithful leaders and global change agents as not merely “bridge building” but “bridge being”? These are just some of the questions that we will raise in this idea lab discussion. In addition, we will discuss the role of the religious NGO (non-governmental organization), engaged in civil society and grass roots organizing in the work of global advocacy and activism.

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LEADE

FEATURED LEADERSHIP

BISHOP MINERVA CARCAÑO California-Pacific Conference, Los Angeles, CA

Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño is a graduate of the University of TexasPan American and Perkins School of Theology of Southern Methodist University. Bishop Carcaño serves as the lead spokesperson on matters of immigration reform for the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church. In 2013, she was one among 14 religious leaders who were invited to the White House by President Barak Obama to consult with him about immigration reform. In addition to writing extensively, Bishop Carcaño has been a tireless preacher, teacher, and speaker at United Methodist, interfaith, justice/human rights, and immigration reform events all over the U.S., Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Zimbabwe, and Switzerland.

JONATHAN WILSON­-HARTGROVE Associate Minister, Saint John’s Missionary Baptist Church; Founder, Rutba House; Director, School for Conversion, Durham, NC

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a native of North Carolina and a graduate of Eastern University and Duke Divinity School. In 2003, Jonathan and his wife Leah founded the Rutba House, a house of hospitality where the formerly homeless are welcomed into a community that eats, prays, and shares life together. Jonathan directs the School for Conversion, a nonprofit that has grown out of the life of Rutba House to pursue beloved community with kids in their neighborhood, through classes in North Carolina prisons, and in community-based education around the country.

Jonathan is also an Associate Minister at the historically black St. Johns Missionary Baptist Church. Jonathan is a co-complier of the celebrated Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, and is the author of several books on Christian spirituality.

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IDEA LAB LEADERSHIP

MINISTER DANIELLE AYERS Minister of Justice, Friendship West Baptist Church, Dallas, TX Danielle Ayers uses her gifts and talents to mobilize and organize the church and community around various issues such as wrongful convictions, mass incarceration, predatory lending, zoning, food deserts, voting participation, legal resources and just restoration for Haiti.

REV. JENNIFER BAILEY Founder, Executive Director, Faith Matters Network (FMN), New York, NY Jennifer Bailey is an ordained minister, community organizer, and emerging national leader in multi-faith movement for justice. Jennifer believes that people of faith can be game changers in the fight to build a more justice, compassionate, and peaceful world.

REV. DIONNE P. BOISSIĂˆRE Chaplain, Church Center for the United Nations (CCUN), New York, NY Dionne Boissière is the first African American woman to hold the chaplain position at CCUN. Dionne ensures that the Church Center provides sacred space, worship, hospitality, community advocacy and a forum for partners and civil society to engage in transformative education.

REV. EDWIN ESTEVEZ F.I.R.S.T. Resident, New Castle Presbytery (PC(USA)), Wilmington, DE Before heading to Wilmington, Delaware to serve as a convening minister for a new worshiping community through the F.I.R.S.T. initiative of the Presbytery of New Castle, Edwin Estevez was the Innovation Scholar at the Community Church of Lake Forest and Lake Bluff, Illinois.

REV. ASHLEY GOFF Ministry for Spiritual Formation and Director of Pilgrimage, Church of the Pilgrims (PCUSA), Washington, DC Ashley Goff graduated from Union Theological Seminary where she fell in love with the art of liturgy.

She lives with deep gratitude for several communities which have formed her along the way: Denison University, the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, the Open Door Community, and Rikers Island NYC Jail.

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IDEA LAB LEADERSHIP REV. EMILY MCGINLEY Church Planter & Pastor, Urban Village Church (Hyde Park | Woodlawn), Chicago, IL Emily McGinley is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), with roots in the nondenominational evangelical tradition. A new mother, when she’s not experimenting with new ways to build community, Emily is experimenting with how to build a person.

GERI MCKENZIE Pathways to Ministry Administrator, Wilshire Baptist Church, Dallas, TX Geri McKenzie oversees the church’s Pastoral Residency program, college and seminary internships and the YourCall program for high school students. She is a Gallup-certified strengths coach and provides coaching for Wilshire staff as well as classes and individual coaching for congregants.

TYLER SIT Church Planter, Minneapolis, MN Tyler Sit is passionate about environmental justice--the intersection between race, economics, and ecology. As an avid traveler, he has spent time in faith communities around the world. He holds an M.Div. from Candler School of Theology.

REV. DR. MICHAEL W. WATERS Founder and Senior Pastor, Joy Tabernacle African Methodist Episcopal Church, Dallas, TX Michael W. Waters is named among America’s top young leaders by EBONY Magazine. Michael serves as an adjunct instructor in the Doctor of Ministry Degree Program and mentor pastor in the Center for Preaching Excellence at the SMU Perkins School of Theology.

JONATHAN WILSON­-HARTGROVE Founder, Rutba House, Durham, NC In 2003, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and his wife Leah founded the Rutba House, a house of hospitality where the formerly homeless are welcomed into a community that eats, prays, and shares life together. Jonathan directs the School for Conversion, a nonprofit that has grown out of Rutba House.

“ACTIVE FAITH is doing the

work of justice-making.

- Eboni Marshall Turman

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SMALL GROUP LEADERSHIP REV. JENNIFER BAILEY Founder, Executive Director, Faith Matters Network (FMN), New York, NY Jennifer Bailey is an ordained minister, community organizer, and emerging national leader in multi-faith movement for justice. Jennifer believes that people of faith can be game changers in the fight to build a more justice, compassionate, and peaceful world.

REV. JEREMY BATTLE Senior Pastor, Western Avenue Baptist Church, Cambridge, MA Jeremy Battle hails from Brighton, Alabama. Jeremy is a 2013 Master of Divinity graduate from Harvard Divinity School. Jeremy’s preaching is characterized by his captivating common-sense approach to God’s word and his gift of story-telling.

REV. KENNY CLEWETT Associate Pastor, Christ Community Evangelical Free Church, Overland Park, KS Kenny Clewett obtained a Master of Divinity at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He works as an associate pastor of Extension Ministries, combining his experience in social entrepreneurship and pastoral heart to help the church serve the city well.

REV. EDWIN ESTEVEZ F.I.R.S.T. Resident, New Castle Presbytery (PC(USA)), Wilmington, DE Before heading to Wilmington, Delaware to serve as a convening minister for a new worshiping community through the F.I.R.S.T. initiative of the Presbytery of New Castle, Edwin was the Innovation Scholar at the Community Church of Lake Forest and Lake Bluff, Illinois.

REV. LINDA JIMÉNEZ Former Evangelist, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, NY As the title of her blog will tell you, she is a quirky church girl. After completing her M.Div. degree at Princeton Theological Seminary, she became an FTE Transition-into-Ministry participant as a Lilly Resident in Ministry. She is now discerning her next ministerial call.

REV. KIT NOVOTNY Young Adult Minister, First Congregational Church, Berkeley, CA At First Church, Kit Novotny is responsible for nurturing ministries for those in their 20s-30s, along with preaching, teaching, pastoral care, and the many other adventures of church life.

REV. TUHINA RASCHE Associate Pastor, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Oakland, CA Tuhina Rasche has a passion for adult faith formation. She revived the congregation’s adult catechumenate program, and she enjoys finding ways to teach adult Christian education forums.

TYLER SIT Church Planter, Minneapolis, MN Tyler Sit is passionate about environmental justice--the intersection between race, economics, and ecology. As an avid traveler, he has spent time in faith communities around the world. He holds an M.Div. from Candler School of Theology.

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DOCTORAL STUDENTS COHORT LEADERSHIP DR. REGINALDO BRAGA Assistant Professor of Christian Education, Area IV, The Interdenominational Theological Center Reginaldo Braga has an interest in education and multiculturalism, education and contemporary liberation theologies, critical theories and Christian education, and postmodern philosophies and education. He specializes in Freirean Studies. His previous ministry involved the transition from a mono-ethnic/mono cultural church to become a multicultural/multi-ethnic community.

DR. TERESA DELGADO Associate Professor of Religion and Ethics; Director, Peace and Justice Studies Program, Iona College Teresa Delgado received her doctorate from Union Theological Seminary. Her interdisciplinary scholarship utilizes the experiences of women to articulate a constructive theological vision, grounded in and critical of Latino culture and the Roman Catholic theological tradition. She has co-edited and published numerous articles and book chapters.

DR. ANNE JOH Associate Professor of Theology, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Anne Joh has served as mentor to doctoral students in various fellowship programs. Her areas of research interests are at the intersection of critical theories on race, gender, trauma, affect, poststructuralism, postcolonialism and militarism in relation to transpacific Asian America. She is the author Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology.

DR. TAT-SIONG BENNY LIEW Class of 1956 Professor of New Testament Studies, College of the Holy Cross Tat-siong Benny Liew is the author of Politics of Parousia and What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics?. He is a research associate of the Institute of Signifying Scripture and an external examiner for the educational programs of the Divinity School of Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

DR. ROSETTA ROSS Professor of Religion, Spelman College Rosetta Ross’ journal articles and book chapters explore religion and black women’s Civil Rights activism, womanist theology and ethics, and religion and society. She is author of Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion and Civil Rights. At Spelman she led the College’s liberal arts religion program transition from Christian studies to religious studies.

DR. PHILLIS SHEPPARD Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture, Vanderbilt Divinity School Phillis Sheppard’s research in religion, psychology and culture engages the intersection where the social and the intrapsychic meet. As a practical theologian she is recognized for her contributions to womanist perspectives in psychoanalysis and religion, methodology, cultural studies, and pastoral theology.

DR. SHIVELY SMITH Assistant Professor of New Testament, Wesley Theological Seminary Shively Smith serves on the Status of Women in the Profession Committee for the Society of Biblical Literature as well as on the steering committee for the Women in the Bible Section. She continues to write and research in the areas of: 1 & 2 Peter studies, diaspora studies, and call/ commission stories in the Bible.

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DOCTORAL STUDENTS COHORT LEADERSHIP DR. EBONI MARSHALL TURMAN Assistant Research Professor of Theological Ethics and Black Church Studies; Director, Office of Black Church Studies, Duke Divinity School Eboni Marshall Turman’s writing on race, gender, and class has been featured in numerous publications. She is the youngest woman to be licensed and ordained to the Gospel ministry by the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in the City of New York and the first woman to be named assistant minister of the church.

INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS LEADERSHIP DR. MARSHA FOSTER BOYD Consultant, Forum for Theological Exploration Marsha Foster Boyd is president emeritus of the Ecumenical Theological Seminary in Detroit.

Boyd previously was director of Accreditation and Leadership Education at the Association of Theological Schools (ATS). She has also served as academic dean of Payne Theological Seminary and associate professor of pastoral care and counseling at United Theological Seminary. Marsha is the first African-American woman to serve in each of these positions.

ADDITIONAL LEADERSHIP RESIDENT CHAPLAIN REV. LIV GIBBONS Pastor, Northwest United Protestant Church, Richland, WA Liv Gibbons is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). She was a Lilly Resident at Central Christian Church in Lexington, KY. Liv received her M.Div. from the University of Chicago Divinity School where she was a Disciples Divinity House scholar.

FACILITATOR DR. PATRICK REYES Program Manager, Spirituality, Education and Dialogue Initiatives Center for Spirituality, Dialogue and Service, Northeastern University, Boston, MA In his current role, Patrick Reyes creates and delivers programming around interfaith dialogue, intercultural competency, nonviolence and interreligious practices with an emphasis on social justice and community transformation.

CLOSING PREACHER REV. DIONNE P. BOISSIÈRE Chaplain, Church Center for the United Nations (CCUN), New York, NY Dionne Boissière is the first African American woman to hold the chaplain position at CCUN. Dionne ensures that the Church Center provides sacred space, worship, hospitality, community advocacy and a forum for partners and civil society to engage in transformative education.

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CHURCH & CHURCH RELATED

PARTNERS COHORT GRIER BOOKER RICHARDS

ERIK CHRISTENSEN

ASHLEY GOFF

Executive Director

Pastor

Minister for Spiritual Formation

and Chaplain

St. Luke’s Lutheran Church

and Director of The Pilgrimage

UKirk Greensboro

of Logan Square

Church of the Pilgrims (PCUSA)

Greensboro, NC

Chicago, IL

Washington, DC

ERIN BURLESON

KAREN CROZIER

JAMIE HASKINS

Program Director

Assistant Professor of Practical

Chaplain and Director of

LEAD INstitute: Georgia

Theology; Director of Faculty

Spiritual Life & Instructor of

Cleveland, GA

Development; Interim Program

Religious Studies

Director of Urban Mission

Westminster College

SAMUEL BURLESON

Fresno Pacific University

Columbia, MO

Family Ministry Pastor

Fresno, CA LEE HINSON-HASTY

The Bridge Church MARSHA CUTTING

FTE Board Chair

Pastor

Senior Director

GREG CARMER

Madrona Grace

Theological Education Funds

Dean of Chapel

Presbyterian Church

Development at Presbyterian

Gordon College

Seattle, WA

Foundation

Cleveland, GA

Wenham, MA

Louisville, KY LARRY DUGGINS

KELLY CHATMAN

Co-Founder

WYNDEE HOLBROOK

Pastor

Missional Wisdom Foundation

Director of Programs

Redeemer Lutheran Church

Southlake, TX

Academy of Preachers

Minneapolis, MN

Lexington, KY ELAINE ENNS

HUN CHOI

Restorative Justice

RICHARD HOWE

Community and Church

Bartimaeus Ministries, Inc.

President

Relations Coordinator

Oak View, CA

Centers for Christian

Korean Churches for

Study International

Community Development

Denver, CO

Los Angeles, CA

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TINA LAWRENCE

SARAH PARHAM

Leonard and Marjorie Maas

Executive Administrator

Associate Director

Chair of Reformed Theology

Fresno Institute for

Wesley Foundation at the

Director of the Emmaus

Urban Leadership

University of Kentucky

Scholars Program; Fellow of the

Fresno, CA

Lexington, KY

Hope College

SCOTT LEE

DAVID RAMOS

Holland, MI

Campus Minister

President

Royston Baptist/Cooperative

Latino Leadership Circle

ANDREW HYDE

Baptist Fellowship of Georgia

New York, NY

Youth & Young Families Minister

Royston, GA

Center for Ministry Studies

RICK REITEN

Norval United Church ALLISON LEIGH

Pastor

Assistant Director of Campus

Bristol Lutheran Church

HYEPIN IM

Ministry for Retreats and Faith

Sun Prairie, WI

FTE Board Member

Communities

Founder & President

University of Dayton

LISA RHODES

Korean Churches for

Dayton, OH

Dean of Sisters Chapel and

Ontario, Canada

Director of the WISDOM Center

Community Development Los Angeles, CA

PAUL MASSINGILL

Spelman College

Pastor/Executive Director

Atlanta, GA

PATRICK KEYSER

FIU-MDC Wesley Foundation

Office and Ministry Assistant

Miami, FL

Campus Pastor

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Richmond, VA

ERIK SAMUELSON

RIMES MCELVEEN

Trinity Lutheran College

Executive Director

Everett, WA

STACY KITAHATA

Mere Christianity Forum

Young Adult Mentor

Greenville, SC

JESSICA ZIMMERLE Outreach Coordinator

Japanese Baptist Church of Seattle

JEFF MEYERS

Ballard First Lutheran

Seattle, WA

Teaching Pastor

Church, ELCA

North Avenue

Seattle, WA

CHRISTOPHER KLEIN

Presbyterian Church

Living-Learning

Atlanta, GA

Program Coordinator Calvin College Grand Rapids, MI

“ACTIVE FAITH imitates Christ relentlessly,

who emptied himself to serve others.”

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YOUNG ADULTS

COHORT “To paraphrase Hebrews 11, ACTIVE FAITH is the turning of dreams into deeds.

It’s living in such a way that our lives wouldn’t make sense if the gospel were not true.”

- Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

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MARIA (MIA) BENJAMIN Episcopal Service Corps, Life Together Cambridge, MA

KAN’DACE BROCK University Health Systems San Antonio

BLAKE COLLINS PCUSA Young Adult Volunteer Program Louisville, KY

SIERRA COPPAGE Virginia Union University Richmond, VA

Converse, TX

YANIL BURGOS Episcopal Service Corps, Life Together

CALLA COUCH Catholic Volunteers in Florida Tampa, FL

Brookline, MA

JONATHAN CAHILL National Benevolent Association, XPLOR Program

TIMOTHY CRUISE Brite Divinity School Mesquite, TX

Pekin, IL

JANINE CARAMBOT Drew Theological School

JAIMIE CRUMLEY Yale Divinity School

Phillipsburg, NJ

New Haven, CT

HAZEL CHERRY

JOE DAVIS

Bread for the World Washington, DC

CHARLOTTE CLOYD Quaker Voluntary Service working at Atlanta Habitat for Humanity Atlanta, GA

Redeemer Lutheran Church ELCA Minneapolis, MN

DONNA DESILUS Yale Divinity School New Haven, CT

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ANDREW FLANIGAN

SHAKEI HAYNES

Westminster College

Washington, DC

Fulton, MO

KATERINA FRIESEN Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS)

HASSAN HENDERSON Morehouse College Atlanta, GA

Elkhart, IN

JESSICA FORTNER Sweet Briar College Roanoke, VA

LYNETTE HICKS Triangle Speech Associates (Speech Language Pathologist) Rocky Mount, NC

ANDRE GILFORD Wayne State University Clinton Township, MI

MATLIN GILMAN Union Theological Seminary

JAMES HILL Southern Methodist University Garland, TX

CYRETA HOWARD United Theological Seminary

New York, NY

New Brighton, MN

ART GORDON

ASHLEY HUBAYKAH

Boston University School of Theology

Iona College New Rochelle, NY

Roxbury, MA

SONNY GRAVES Pacific School of Religion Berkeley, CA

SARAH KEOUGH Seattle Pacific Seminary Seattle, WA

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DAE SHIK KIM Seattle Pacific Seminary Seattle, WA

COLLEEN MAKI Lutheran Campus Ministry Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN

EDWARD KIM Azusa Pacific University South Pasadena, CA

CORA KOEHLER The New School University Brooklyn, NY

QUANTISHA MASON McCormick Theological Seminary Chicago, IL

COOPER MCCULLOUGH Boston College School of Theology and Ministry Chestnut Hill, MA

MARQUISHA LAWRENCE Eden Theological Seminary/ Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO

JOSEPH LIVERSEED University of Wisconsin ­Madison Madison, WI

ETHAN LOWERY Episcopal Relief & Development Berkeley, CA

EMILY MELO Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary Boston Boston, MA

DAVID MILLER Jesuit Volunteer Corps Baltimore, MD

VICTORIA MOORE Notre Dame Mission Volunteers Baltimore, MD

ROSEMARY MACADAM

R. AUSTIN NELSON

St. Margaret’s Church,

Luther Seminary

The Anglican Diocese of Toronto,

Moorhead, MN

and Scarboro Missions Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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ANDRE PARRIS Tyndale University College and Seminary

DANIEL REED University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dollard-­des-Ormeaux, Quebec, Canada ISAIAH PETTWAY Ashland Theological Seminary Detroit Southfield, MI

CHRISTOPHER PICARELLO

BRITTNEY ROBINSON Virginia Union University School of Theology North Chesterfield, VA

IAN ROEBER

King’s College

Boston College School of

Macungie, PA

Theology and Ministry Brighton, MA

SARA PRENDERGAST SALZWEDEL Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University at Berkeley

JOHN ROGERS Union Theological Seminary New York, NY

Berkeley, CA

ANTONIO REDD Virginia Union University School of Theology

ROSS­ WILLIAMS Morehouse College Atlanta, GA

Henrico, VA

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JERI SALAS Colorado UpLift Denver, CO

BAILEY SANFORD Methodist Student Network at the University of South Carolina Columbia, SC

COURTNEY SANFORD The Methodist Student Network at the University of South Carolina

MIRIAM SHERWIN Trent University Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

ERIKA SPAET Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary Berkeley, CA

BRITTNEY STEPHAN Butler University Carmel, IN

Columbia, SC

CARLSON SAWYER University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA

BROOKE TAYLOR Virginia Union University School of Theology Richmond, VA

SASHA SHEPPARD Full Gospel Baptist Fellowship Lithonia, GA

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RICKEY THOMAS Florida Memorial University Miami Gardens, FL

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LOUIS TILLMAN Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

WILLIAM WILSON Candler School of Theology Atlanta, GA

Chicago, IL

DEMARIUS WALKER Boston University Atlanta, GA

KIMBERLY WHITE Central Baptist Theological Seminary Lees Summit, MO

BRISHA WHITE Borough of Manhattan Community College

LYDIA WYLIE­-KELLERMANN Word and World: A People’s School Detroit, MI

SAMUEL YENN-­BATAH PCUSA Young Adult Volunteer Program Atlanta, GA

AMY ZIMBELMAN Duke University Divinity School Durham, NC

Brooklyn, NY

SARAH WILDT KAMMERDIENER Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary Austin, TX

EMILY WILKES Church of the Pilgrims Washington, DC

“As Christ’s followers, WE ARE CALLED to have an ACTIVE FAITH—to be agents of

transformation.”

RICHARD WILLIAMS Interdenominational Theological Center Atlanta, GA

- Linda Jiménez

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DOCTORAL STUDENTS COHORT

“An ACTIVE FAITH matters because God calls each of us, as believers, to daily, actively live out our faith by obeying Him.” - Geri McKenzie

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AMY BARBOUR Theology Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

ERICKA DUNBAR Religion Drew University Madison, NJ

Evanston, IL

GRACE BOAKYE-AGYEMAN

MARLENE FERRERAS

Religious Studies

Practical Theology

McGill University in Montreal

Claremont School of Theology

Quebec, Canada

Claremont, CA

COURTNEY BUGGS

EARLE FISHER

Religion/Homiletics Emory University Atlanta, GA

Religious Studies/ Rhetoric & Communications University of Memphis/ Rhodes College Memphis, TN

RUFUS BURNETT Systematic Theology Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA

JAMALL CALLOWAY Philosophical Theology Union Theological Seminary New York, NY

MICHAEL FISHER JR. Ethics and Society Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN

BRIDGETT GREEN New Testament and Early Christianity Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN

LEONARD CURRY Ethics and Society Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN

NICHOLAS GRIER Pastoral Theology, Personality and Culture Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Evanston, IL

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YARA GONZALEZ足JUSTINIANO Practical Theology Boston University Boston, MA

RACHELLE GREEN Religious Education Emory University Atlanta, GA

LAUREN GUERRA Systematic and Philosophical Theology Graduate Theological Union

JOEL KEMP Hebrew Bible Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA

SIMON JOSEPH KIERULF Theology and Ethics Union Presbyterian Seminary Richmond, VA

HELEN KIM American Religions Harvard University Cambridge, MA

Berkeley, CA

AARON HOWARD Ethics and Society Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN

CHAN LIAN Pastoral Theology, Culture and Personality Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Evanston, IL

NAZILA ISGANDAROVA Pastoral Theology Emmanuel College Toronto, ON, Canada

HEATHER MCLETCHIE足-LEADER New Testament and Early Christianity Harvard University Cambridge, MA

AMARYAH JONES足ARMSTRONG Theological Studies Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN

ZACHARY MILLS Rhetoric and Public Culture Northwestern University Evanston, IL

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KERMIT MOSS Practical Theology Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, NJ

HYEMIN NA Homiletics Emory University Atlanta, GA

JOI ORR Ethics and Society Emory University Atlanta, GA

TIMOTHY RAINEY II American Religious Cultures Emory University Atlanta, GA

ALISHA TATEM Pastoral Care and Counseling Columbia Theological Seminary Atlanta, GA

NATHAN WALTON Theology University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA

RACHEL WATSON Religion and Literature University of Chicago Chicago, IL

GRACE VARGAS History of the Christian Tradition in Latin America Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX

ASHLYN STROZIER Women’s Studies in Religion and Ethics Claremont Graduate University Claremont, CA

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INSTITUTIONAL

DOCTORAL NETWORK PARTNERS COHORT LEE BUTLER Professor of Theology and Psychology Chicago Theological Seminary Chicago, IL

LUIS RIVERA Vice President for Academic Affairs and Academic Dean Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Evanston, IL

SHONDA JONES Associate Dean of Admissions and Student Services Wake Forest School of Divinity

RADY ROLDÁN-FIGUEROA Associate Professor Boston University School of Theology Boston, MA

Winston-Salem, NC

SHERYL KUJAWA-HOLBROOK V.P. for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty & Professor Claremont School of Theology Claremont, CA

BRYAN STONE Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism; Co-Director of the Center for Practical Theology Boston University School of Theology Boston, MA

K. SAMUEL LEE Professor of Practical Theology, Spiritual Care, and Counseling Claremont School of Theology Claremont, CA

GAIL O’DAY Dean and Professor of New Testament and Preaching Wake Forest School of Divinity Winston-Salem, NC

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EMILY VOGT Director of the CTS Ph.D. program Chicago Theological Seminary Chicago, IL

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Diverse Solutions: Present a problem and recommend a possible solution as it pertains to diversity issues within the church and/or in theological institutions.

Thinking out loud: Provide commentary on a current event, article, book or resource that you have encountered.

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PARTICIPANT REIMBURSEMENT GUIDELINES The following guidelines are provided to assist you in completing FTE’s reimbursement form. Receipts are required for all reimbursable expenses. To receive reimbursement, FTE must receive your expense report within ten (10) business days of the completion of the event. NO EXCEPTIONS. If you have any questions, please contact the appropriate FTE staff person who has been corresponding with you about the event.

TRANSPORTATION: 1) General Rule: FTE covers travel expenses beginning and ending at the airport of departure or, if you are local, the event itself. If you must drive over fifty (50) miles each way to the nearest airport or the event itself, FTE will reimburse your mileage at the standard IRS rate.

2) Deadline: Flights must be booked through FTE’s travel agent at least six (6) weeks prior to the event. If you do not book your flight by this deadline, you may be personally responsible for any difference in cost.

3) Booking: Flight arrangements are billed directly to FTE. However, if you received permission to purchase your own ticket, the flight itinerary (showing costs) must be included for reimbursement. Airfare may not exceed the lowest fare available. FTE does not reimburse the normal airfare when a frequent-flyer ticket is used.

4) Airport Parking: Please park in economy lots where available.

5) Checked Baggage: FTE will reimburse checked baggage fees up to $25 each way.

6) Car Rentals: FTE staff must pre-approve all car rentals. Please use economy-class vehicles whenever available.

For car rentals, FTE will reimburse gasoline expenses in addition to the cost of the vehicle.

7) Mileage Reimbursement: If you use your personal vehicle to travel over fifty (50) miles each way to the airport or the event itself, mileage will be reimbursed at the standard IRS rate ($0.575 per mile in 2015). Mileage expenses may not exceed the lowest available airfare between city of departure and destination. As your receipt, please submit a map that shows total miles traveled.

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2) Incidentals: In-room charges such as phone calls, movies, snacks and room service will not be reimbursed.

MEALS:

1) Covered Meals: During the event, FTE will provide all meals, unless otherwise indicated on the registration

form. If you arrive early on the first day of the event, FTE will reimburse you for your meals if none are provided.

Whenever group meals are provided, FTE does not reimburse for personal meals.

2) Meal Allowances: For meals not provided by FTE, you may be reimbursed up to the following amounts

(Excluding tax and gratuity): Breakfast: $10.00; Lunch: $15.00; Dinner: $25.00

3) Alcohol: FTE does not reimburse for alcoholic beverages.

TIPPING:

1) Meals and Taxis: FTE will reimburse gratuity for meals and taxis (with receipts) between 15-20%.

2) Hotel Staff: FTE strongly encourages participants to tip hotel service personnel, such as porters, valets, and

housekeepers. However, FTE does not reimburse such expenses.

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