Click on any session for more details, and click on the paper titles to read the papers In our REA2021 Proceedings.
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Annual Meeting welcome with Program Chair, Dr. Boyung Lee
Screening of a special Healing the Healers: Domestic Violence event tailored to the needs of religious education, seminary classrooms and chaplaincy training spaces, educators shared trauma-informed teaching practices for navigating the complex issue of domestic violence, equipping leaders to respond to victims and survivors, even amidst the skyrocketing rates of violence during and after the pandemic.
- Rev. Tawana Davis, Soul 2 Soul Sisters
- Dr. Danjuma Gibson, Calvin Theological Seminary
- Rev. Dr. Katie Givens Kime, Odyssey Impact
- Rev. Dr. Sally MacNichol, CONNECT: Safe Families, Peaceful Communities
- Dr. Kate Ott, Drew University
Sponsored by Odyssey Impact.
Charles Chesnavage, "Digital Stories as a Creative Assignment for Studying World Religions". This presentation will show and explore some digital stories and analyze the digital stories with implicit or explicit religious themes chosen by students.
First 30 minutes will be focussed on Master's students, the last 90 minutes will be focussed on Doctoral students.
The Asian and Asian North America Religious Educator (AANARE) Work Group welcomes everybody who is interested in the exploration, development, and enhancement of Asian/Asian North American perspectives in religious education. As a Working Group of the REA/APRRE, we gather to provide one another collegial support and to stimulate thinking and discussion for the generation of new scholarship and resources.
Daily time that will set aside to reflect on day with our Program Chair Dr. Boyung Lee.
Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock is a leading international expert on moral injury in combat veterans, and Senior Vice President and Director of the Shay Moral Injury Center at Volunteers of America. A noted religion scholar and the first Asian American woman earning a Ph.D. in Theology/Religion, Dr. Brock was the Founding Director of the Soul Repair Center at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, where she also was a Research Professor of Theology and Culture. Dr. Brock has made her slides available.
Closed to members of the Board
Screening of “Supporting the Journey From Victim to Survivor”, Episode 1 from Healing the Healers: Domestic Violence film series (29 min.), which features Rev. Tawana Davis speaking with mother and daughter clergy, Rev. Bonita Chase Darby, author of “Daughter Your Faith has Healed You” and Rev. Dr. Regina Groff, Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, about journeying through trauma and self-care as faith leaders. Following the screening, Rev. Davis will moderate a brief discussion with workshop participants.
Sponsored by Odyssey Impact.
This is a meeting of the Black Experience Working Group. It is open to all who identify as black, African American, or part of the African diaspora.
Daily time that will set aside to reflect on day with our Program Chair Dr. Boyung Lee.
This Standing Committee focuses on the engagement in and advancement of religious education in academic disciplines and in schools, colleges, universities, and graduate schools of religion and theology.
The Business Meeting is open to all members of REA. Please review the Business Meeting materials to learn more about the adgenda and the decisions which will be made at the meeting.
Screening of “Spiritual Care for Survivors: Tools and Resources”, Episode 2 from Healing the Healers: Domestic Violence film series (30 min.) which features Rev. Tawana Davis speaking with Chaplain Jennie Wachowski-Estes, resident chaplain at Tulsa Family Safety Center about confronting hidden violence, and reconciling sacred texts and beliefs, including complexities around forgiveness and shame. Following the screening, Rev. Davis will moderate a brief discussion with workshop participants.
Sponsored by Odyssey Impact.
What does the future of theological education have in store? Many of us have seen the research: the sobering statistics of ministerial burnout, of seminary closures and decreased enrollments, etc. We have also seen instances of creative adaptations, and of a renewed sense of institutional calling. This seminar will explore both the challenges, and the signs of life, that the entire field of theological education is facing. As a Related Learning Organization with the REA, ALLLM (the Association of Leaders in Lifelong Learning for Ministry) invites all who are interested in this topic to join us for a panel discussion and dialogue.
Given our conference theme, we would like to explore wholeness as a lens through which to view the present and future aims – and in turn the practices, pedagogies, processes, and institutions – of theological education. Wholeness means seeing and cultivating the whole person throughout the lifespan of their ministry. It involves making such efforts more accessible, and celebrating the fullness of humanity in all of its diversity. It will require us to reimagine institutions themselves, as well as teaching approaches. And creating communities of wholeness challenges us to consider the neighborhoods, towns and cities in which we are located, and to seek to promote wholeness and healing at the community and societal levels.
The Advisory Council consists of members of standing committees and all who choose to show up. All person's present will be the advisory council for that year.
Daily time that will set aside to reflect on day with our Program Chair Dr. Boyung Lee.
Dr. Mark D. Jordan is internationally known as a scholar of Christian theology, European philosophy, and gender studies. He is the Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School. Over the last three decades, Dr. Jordan has written extensively on sexual ethics, producing books that are widely regarded as opening important new conversations.
Closed to members of the board
Screening of “From Harmful to Helpful: Religion and Masculinity”, Episode 3 from Healing the Healers: Domestic Violence film series (31 min.) which features Rev. Tawana Davis speaking with Imam Mohamad Magid is Executive Imam at Adams Center, All Dulles Area Muslim Society and an Advisory Board Member and Trainer at Peaceful Families Project about the Power Wheel and patterns of abuse, misuse of sacred texts, and navigating family systems. Following the screening, Rev. Davis will moderate a brief discussion with workshop participants.
Sponsored by Odyssey Impact.
What creative and innovative inquiries are emerging in Religious Education research and publications? Where are we currently feeling called and how do we imagine RE scholarship and publication helping us address justice and inclusion? How must our scholarship and publication pivot in order to address our current realities and to become exemplary public scholarship? How do we make this happen? This session creates space both for dreaming about the future of Religious Education publications and for gaining practical tips for publishing in current streams, particularly the Horizons book series and the Religious Education Journal.
Daily time that will set aside to reflect on day with our Program Chair Dr. Boyung Lee.
Screening of “Men Speaking Out: Theology, Power, and Transformation”, Episode 4 from Healing the Healers: Domestic Violence film series (37 min.) which features Rev. Tawana Davis speaking with Dr. Ron Clark, Executive Director for Kairos Church Planting Support and domestic violence advocate, and Rev. Cary James, Jr., Senior Pastor of Jones Memorial United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C. and Chaplain for the Baltimore City Police Department about hegemonic masculinity and the role of law enforcement in community cooperation. Following the screening, Rev. Davis will moderate a brief discussion with workshop participants.
Sponsored by Odyssey Impact.
Dr. Yohana Junker is an educator and visual artist, and Assistant Professor of Art, Religion, and Culture at Claremont School of Theology. Dr. Junker’s research probes the intersections among the fields of art history, eco-criticism, and decolonial studies, with special attention to contemporary Indigenous and diasporic art practices.
Dr. Mark Hicks is the Angus MacLean Professor of Religious Education at Meadville Lombard Theological School. He collaborated with PBS to develop the curriculum companion to the PBS documentary, Defying the Nazis: The Sharp’s War. His interfaith curriculum, We Who Defy Hate, is being used by congregations, college faith groups, and community organizations seeking to find common ground on social issues.
Dr. Su Yon Pak is the Senior Director and Associate Professor of Integrative and Field-based Education at Union Theological Seminary. Dr. Pak has taught at Teachers College Columbia University, Mercy College, and Auburn Theological Seminary. Her life and research passions include: criminal justice, the elderly and spirituality, chaplaincy, women’s leadership, and integrative and critical pedagogies.