This presentation explores the vocation of the religious educator through the lens young adult Christian leaders, principled pluralism, trans-local learning, and the theory of emergence. In honor of the retirement of Dr. Jack Seymour from Garret-Evangelical Theological Seminary.

1. Moseses, Miriams, Monarch
Migrations
&
Teaching for Redemptive
Community
Dori Baker
Nov. 11, 2014

4. “I am not alone in my wild
ideas for re-framing
theology, but I have found
other wild thinkers and
doers to curate my
wildness, my holy
wildness.”

6. Three Jack-isms

7. As theologians and meaning-makers,
religious educators
are about the work of helping
others to become the
theologians and meaning-makers
of their own life
experiences.

8. Our meaning-making takes place
at the very innermost core of our
individual selves, and
simultaneously and necessarily
at the outer edge of our
traditions, where it must do the
risky work of ongoing public
interpretation if it is to be
redemptive.

9. Our meaning making is not for the
sake of inner peace, nor for the sake
of preserving our traditions or
institutions – although these are
surely sacred purposes – but always
for the sake of an aching world, for
the sake of community.

16. • Culture of Anxiety
• Culture of Busy
• Done with Churchly Ways

17. • Places to be vulnerable
• Practices of prayer and
sabbath
• Mentors for the hard stuff

19. Global
Presencing Institute
MIT April, 2014

21. Trans-local learning is
“what happens when separate, local
efforts connect with each other, then
grown and transform as people exchange
ideas that together give rise to new
systems with greater impact and
influence.” (Wheatley, 2013, 28)

24. As theologians and meaning-makers,
religious educators
are about the work of helping
others to become the
theologians and meaning-makers
of their own life
experiences.

25. Our meaning-making takes place
at the very innermost core of our
individual selves, and
simultaneously and necessarily
at the outer edge of our
traditions, where it must do the
risky work of ongoing public
interpretation if it is to be
redemptive.

29. Our meaning making is not for the
sake of inner peace, nor for the sake
of preserving our traditions or
institutions – although these are
surely sacred purposes – but always
for the sake of an aching world, for
the sake of community.

31. All Saint’s Day, 2014