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So That We Might Build Together: Cultivating Honest Conversation, Enduring Trust & Mutual Care in the Midst of Deep Difference

Awarded Grant
Carter, Heath
Princeton Theological Seminary
Theological School
2024

Proposal abstract :
Princeton Theological Seminary, a Reformed and ecumenical graduate school with a thriving and diverse community, recognizes that the very diversity it celebrates can also be a source of conflict. With this context in mind the project, “So That We Might Build Together: Cultivating Honest Conversation, Enduring Trust & Mutual Care in The Midst of Deep Difference,” seeks to promote communal care and connection. It equips participants with pedagogical practices that will sustain honest, difficult conversations and cultivate the enduring trust, mutual respect, individual, and community-wide care that is essential to flourishing. This training, as experienced through large-scale events and small cohorts of faculty and doctoral students, will lead into an exciting series of pedagogical experiments across the PTS campus in the spring of 2025. Participants will go on to reflect on their experiences in a book that will extend the impact of this project beyond the seminary community to the theological academy, church and denominational institutions, and the world beyond.

Learning Abstract :
Princeton Theological Seminary, a Reformed and ecumenical graduate school with a thriving and diverse community, recognizes that the very diversity it celebrates can also be a source of conflict. With this context in mind the project, "So That We Might Build Together: Cultivating Honest Conversation, Enduring Trust & Mutual Care in The Midst of Deep Difference," seeks to promote communal care and connection. It equips participants with pedagogical practices that will sustain honest, difficult conversations and cultivate the enduring trust, mutual respect, individual, and community-wide care that is essential to flourishing. This training, as experienced through large-scale events and small cohorts of faculty and doctoral students, will lead into an exciting series of pedagogical experiments across the PTS campus in the spring of 2025. Participants will go on to reflect on their experiences in a book that will extend the impact of this project beyond the seminary community to the theological academy, church and denominational institutions, and the world beyond.
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