Category Archives: News
REA COVID-19 update
As the world struggles to respond to the challenges arising from COVID-19, REA wants you to know that we, too, are seeking to respond in ways that are faithful to our commitments and mission. It is not yet clear whether we will … Continue reading
IAPT July 2021: Coping with Crisis
The International Association for Practical Theology has announced their 2021 conference, to be held in July of 2021: Coping with crisis: Hospitality, security, and the search for faithful connections. The Call for Papers is open through September. Please see their … Continue reading
Children’s Spirituality Summit
“Spiritual Formation of Children: Personal, Communal, Cultural” JUNE 8-10, 2020 / Children’s Spirituality Summit at Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN The Children’s Spirituality Summit brings together children’s ministers, developmental psychologists, spiritual formation leaders, lay leaders, pastors, teachers, sociologists, parents, and theologians … Continue reading
Fellowship: Revitalize Pedagogy in Christian Higher Education
The Yale Center for Faith & Culture (YCFC), with the generous support of the Texas Methodist Foundation, is now accepting applications from educators at institutions of Christian higher education, to serve as Pedagogy Fellows for the Pedagogy of Christ & … Continue reading
Professor of World Christianity, Nazarene Seminary
Nazarene Theological Seminary is seeking applicants for a full-time, open-rank, professor of World Christianity. Position is open until filled with a start date as early as August 2020. Candidates must hold (or be near completion of) a terminal degree, preferably … Continue reading
Design thinking as support for the Wornom Innovation grants
During the 2019 REA Annual Meeting, Dr. Sarah Tauber (chair of the Harper Wornom committee) offered a workshop on design thinking as support for the Wornom Innovation grant process. She has graciously made available her powerpoint slides from that workshop.
Science and Religious Education in Divided Societies
One aspect of our current social divides involves a raging debate over the possibility of “post-truth,” “alternative facts,” and “fake news.” Among other issues, this debate revolves around the proper relation between empirical evidence, on the hand, and various political, … Continue reading
Education for co-existence: Pedagogies of the sacred, of difference, and of hope
The fourth plenary from the 2019 Religious Education Association annual meeting, held in Toronto, ON from November 1-3 was scheduled to be the Presidential Address. Due to health challenges, the REA Program Chair and incoming President, Hanan Alexander of the … Continue reading
Disrupting the consequences of difficult histories through education
The third plenary from the Religious Education Association’s annual meeting, held in Toronto, ON November 1-3, 2019 was entitled “Disrupting the consequences of difficult histories through education” and featured Greer Anne Wenh-In Ng, Emerita professor of religious education, Emmanuel College … Continue reading
Hermeneutics of the Other and Theologies of Difference
The second plenary from the 2019 Religious Education Association meeting held in Toronto, ON November 1-3 was entitled “Hermeneutics of the Other and Theologies of Difference,” and involved a panel discussion amongst Elie Holzer, Ochs Chair for Teaching Jewish Religious … Continue reading
