Events

Salon 1 – Mid-Career African American Faculty Leadership Team Willie James Jennings, Yale Divinity School Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia Tim Lake, Wabash College / Wabash Center Participants Trina A. Armstrong, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Malinda Elizabeth Berry, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary Stephanie M. Crumpton, McCormick Theological Seminary Stephen C. Finley, Louisiana State University Joseph S. Flipper, Bellarmine University Melanie L. Harris, Texas Christian University Awa G. Jangha, Seminary of the Southwest Monique N. Moultrie, Georgia State University Kate E. Temoney, Montclair State University Joseph L. Tucker Edmonds, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Chanequa Walker-Barnes, McAfee School of Theology – Mercer University Ralph Basui Watkins, Columbia Theological Seminary Richelle B. White, Kuyper College Almeda M. Wright, Yale Divinity School Description & Goals This salon will focus on teaching about and about being part of at-risk black communities in this moment. Goals: 1. Reflect imaginatively and critically upon the effects of the pandemic on teaching practices, institutional realities and the vocation of teaching 2.(Re)Design new syllabi, course sessions, and learning activities that directly attend to issues of student and societal trauma: Though we may do actual syllabus and assignment designs, we want to focus on the question of what redesign means at this moment. We would like to think about redesign in the sense of belonging and finding authentic voice. Our question is: How does what is authentically us come through given this new reality? 3. Nurture a sense of belonging for self and other colleagues in community 4. Hear their own authentic voice in teaching Dates & Times We would like to meet on Thursday mornings, breaking up the sessions into two times a month after one 3-hour opening session: Session 1: Thursday, September 3 (10:30 am-1:30 pm, Eastern) Session 2: Thursday September 17 and Thursday, October 1 (10:30 am-12:00 pm, Eastern) Session 3: Thursday, October 15 and Thursday, October 29 (10:30 am-12:00 pm, Eastern) Session 4: Thursday, November 12 and Thursday, December 3 (10:30 am-12:00 pm, Eastern) Session 5: Thursday, January 7, 2021 and Thursday, January 28 (10:30 am-12:00 pm, Eastern) Session 6: Thursday, February 11 and Thursday, February 25 (10:30 am-12:00 pm, Eastern) Session 7: Thursday, March 25 (we are accounting for spring breaks in mid-March) and Thursday, April 15 (10:30 am-12:00 pm, Eastern) Additional session, if necessary: Thursday, April 29 (10:30-12:00, Eastern) Digital Salon Grants Important Links Payment of Participants Policy on Full Participation Our Philosophy of Workshops Travel and Accommodations Travel Reimbursement Form Questions about the Salons? Dr. Paul O. Myhre Senior Associate Director myhrep@wabash.edu. Honorarium Participants in the Salons will receive an honorarium of $3,000 for full participation in the online Salon meetings. Read More about Payment of Participants Social Media Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Flicker Lilly Endowment, Inc. Other Lilly Supported Initiatives

Salon 5 – Engaging Imagination as Theological School Faculty Leadership Team Amy Oden, Saint Paul School of Theology at Oklahoma City University Roger Nam, Candler School of Theology, Emory University Paul Myhre, Wabash Center Participants Geomon George, City Seminary of New York Douglas Hardy, Nazarene Theological Seminary Kimberleigh Jordan, Drew University Annie A. Lockhart-Gilroy, Phillips Theological Seminary Rodolfo R. Nolasco, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Janette H. Ok, Fuller Theological Seminary Jeney Park-Hearn, Seattle University Julie Faith Parker, General Theological Seminary Leah Payne, George Fox University Federico Roth, Azusa Pacific University, Grad School of Theology Michael Shire, Hebrew College Shively T. J. Smith, Boston University School of Theology Lis Valle-Ruiz, McCormick Theological Seminary William Yoo, Columbia Theological Seminary Description We will gather to explore what is now possible in theological education – in our classrooms, in our course design, in our spiritual lives, in our pedagogy and scholarship as well as in our common life within institutions – that perhaps didn’t seem possible before COVID-19. How has the present pandemic catalyzed our imaginations by re-thinking theological education during this time? We will convene conversations that invite us to listen to our lives in this moment as we discern new paths. Dates and Times Friday, September 4 (1:00-4:00 pm, Eastern) Friday, October 2 (1:00-4:00 pm, Eastern) Friday, November 6 (1:00-4:00 pm, Eastern) Friday, December 4 (1:00-4:00 pm, Eastern) Friday, February 5 (1:00-4:00 pm, Eastern) Friday, March 5 (1:00-4:00 pm, Eastern) Friday, April 9 (1:00-4:00 pm, Eastern) Digital Salon Grants https://www.nts.edu/engaging-imagination-as-theological-school-faculty/ Important Links Payment of Participants Policy on Full Participation Our Philosophy of Workshops Travel and Accommodations Travel Reimbursement Form Questions about the Salons? Dr. Paul O. Myhre Senior Associate Director myhrep@wabash.edu. Honorarium Participants in the Salons will receive an honorarium of $3,000 for full participation in the online Salon meetings. Read More about Payment of Participants Social Media Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Flicker Lilly Endowment, Inc. Other Lilly Supported Initiatives

Salon 4 – Faculty of Asian/American Heritages Teaching Diverse Religious Traditions at Different Stages of Career Development Leadership Team Kwok Pui-lan, Candler School of Theology, Emory University Tat-Siong Benny Liew, College of the Holy Cross Paul Myhre, Wabash Center Participants Shreena Gandhi, Michigan State University Aysha Hidayatullah, University of San Francisco Tamara Ho, University of California - Riverside Christine J. Hong, Columbia Theological Seminary Hsiao-Lan Hu, University of Detroit Mercy Roshan Iqbal, Agnes Scott College Sailaja Krishnamurti, Saint Mary's University (Nova Scotia) Devaka Premawardhana, Emory University Henry Shiu, University of Toronto Devin Singh, Dartmouth College Sharon A. Suh, Seattle University Eric Haruki Swanson, Loyola Marymount University M Adryael Tong, Interdenominational Theological Center Lily Vuong, Central Washington University Description Develop a cohort of colleagues teaching diverse religious traditions at different stages of career development to discuss in seven sessions. Dates and Times Tuesday, September 29, 2020 (7:00-9:00 pm, Eastern) Tuesday, October 27, 2020 (7:00-9:00 pm, Eastern) Tuesday, December 1, 2020 (7:00-9:00 pm, Eastern) Tuesday, January 26, 2021 (7:00-9:00 pm, Eastern) Tuesday, February 23, 2021 (7:00-9:00 pm, Eastern) Tuesday, March 30, 2021 (7:00-9:00 pm, Eastern) Tuesday, April 27, 2021 (7:00-9:00 pm, Eastern) Digital Salon Grants Important Links Payment of Participants Policy on Full Participation Our Philosophy of Workshops Travel and Accommodations Travel Reimbursement Form https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2hZbJOL6Sg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alt4lakkxgM Questions about the Salons? Dr. Paul O. Myhre Senior Associate Director myhrep@wabash.edu. Honorarium Participants in the Salons will receive an honorarium of $3,000 for full participation in the online Salon meetings. Read More about Payment of Participants Social Media Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Flicker Lilly Endowment, Inc. Other Lilly Supported Initiatives

Digital Salons Pilot for Pivoting Wabash Center Programming Fall 2020 to Summer 2021 2020-21 Digital Salon: Cohorts on Re-Imaging Teaching and Learning Rationale The Wabash Center is responding quickly to the needs of faculty for conversation and guidance. Therefore, we are adding to our programming Digital Salons. The Digital Salons are designed to bring faculty peers into a sustained conversation. COVID 19 caught all of us by surprise. In spring of 2020, due to the pandemic threat, all of higher education abruptly went to online teaching. It is still not clear when this crisis pedagogy will end; it is not certain when/if classrooms will regularize. Without a vaccine, or recommended medication cocktail, schools are left to speculate on the immediate as well as long term implications of the pandemic to courses, curriculum and the teaching life. A new landscape of teaching is emerging. Faculty need assistance in this moment of upheaval, uncertainty, and change. Through imaginative and pedagogical reflection, cohort groups will explore what is being discovered in this peculiar moment about teaching, learning and the teaching life. Description Digital Salons, facilitated by peer facilitators, are cohorts that meet for an academic year to grapple with the changes in teaching practices and the teaching life, sparked by the COVID 19 crisis. Each online group is organized for monthly dialogues to consider creative ideas for the habits, practices, and approaches to teaching while in the midst of the novel corona virus pandemic. This is not a product-oriented group. Rather, through processes of imaginative and pedagogical reflection, this cohort will rethink, reengineer, recast, redesign and reconceive teaching during and beyond this crisis moment. Emphasis will be upon play, creativity, self-care, and keeping well the authentic voice in crisis. Goals and Core Questions of Inquiry As a consequence of involvement with the yearlong faculty conversations, participants will be able to: Reflect imaginatively and critically upon the effects of the pandemic on teaching practices, institutional realities and the vocation of teaching Demonstrate capacity to rethink learning goals and outcomes for courses after the pandemic Integrate new ideas for student ministerial formation and civic formation to attend to issues of crisis in communities (Re)Design new syllabi, course sessions, and learning activities that directly attend to issues of student and societal trauma Demonstrate capacities for integration of creativity in their teaching Nurture a sense of belonging for self and other colleagues in community Hear their own authentic voice in teaching Each Digital Salon will build conversation around one or more of these questions: What kinds of knowledges must we now incorporate in our teaching practices and in our course designs? What does it mean, now, to be creative to re-think and re-imagine a “bread & butter” course? What, for now, is health and generativity of a teacher? What is healing and care for the soul? What are the new or changed vocational challenges of teaching in higher education? In what ways must we reconsider, reconstitute, rebuild, and revision communities which shape the teaching and learning experiences in our institutions? Applications Applicants may apply to only one Salon and each Salon has specific applicant criteria unique to that Salon. Hence, applicants ought to make certain that their eligibility matches that of the particular Salon. Information about each Salon is included on their respective webpages. Brief descriptions are provided below. Questions about the Salons? Contact: Dr. Paul O. Myhre, Senior Associate Director, myhrep@wabash.edu. Salon 1 - Mid-Career African American Faculty Leadership Team – Dr. Willie James Jennings, Yale Divinity School & Dr. Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia Applicants – African American Faculty; 5 years in the profession to mid- and late-career faculty teaching in Colleges, Universities, or Theological Schools Brief Description – This salon will focus on teaching about and about being part of at-risk black communities in this moment. More information… Salon 2 - Vocational Trajectories for Mid-Career Theological School Educators Leadership Team – Dr. Evelyn Parker, Perkins School of Theology & Dr. Joretta Marshall, Brite Divinity School Applicants – Mid-career theological educators; multi-ethnic Brief Description – Reflect on vocational trajectories for mid-career theological educators. More information… Salon 3 - Tending to the Body and Soul of Early Career Theological School Educators Leadership Team –Dr. Katherine Turpin, Iliff School of Theology & Dr. Eric Barreto, Princeton Theological Seminary Applicants – Early Career Theological Educators Brief Description – Built around the metaphor of the teaching life as a dinner feast, we will explore what the abundance of the feast looks like in the midst of a pandemic and the attendant institutional crises theological education is facing. More information… Salon 4 – Faculty of Asian/American Heritages Teaching Diverse Religious Traditions at Different Stages of Career Development Leadership Team – Dr. Kwok Pui-lan, Candler School of Theology, Emory University & Dr. Tat-Siong Benny Liew, College of the Holy Cross Applicants – Faculty of Asian/American heritages who teach religious and theological studies in Universities, Colleges, or Theological Schools Brief Description – Develop a cohort of colleagues teaching diverse religious traditions at different stages of career development to discuss in seven sessions. More information… Salon 5 – Engaging Imagination as Theological School Faculty Leadership Team – Dr. Amy Oden, Independent Scholar & Dr. Roger Nam, Candler School of Theology, Emory University Applicants – Theological School Faculty at any stage of their career Brief Description – This Salon will explore what is now possible in theological education – in our classrooms, in our course design, in our spiritual lives, in our pedagogy and scholarship as well as in our common life within institutions – that perhaps didn’t seem possible before COVID-19. More information… Salon 6 – Latinx Perspectives on Possibilities of Teaching Theology and Religious Studies Leadership Team – Dr. Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, AETH, Asociación para La Educación Teológica Hispana & Dr. Chris Tirres, DePaul University Applicants – Early- and Mid-Career Latinx faculty; Faculty of any racial or ethnic background who teach in a Hispanic Serving Institution Brief Description - Our Digital Salon will use the lens of Latinx culture to address the challenges and possibilities of teaching theology and religious studies in the context of COVID-19. More information… No Longer Accepting Applications Applicants will be notified of decision by August 7, 2020 Digital Salon Grants Important Links Payment of Participants Policy on Full Participation Travel and Accommodations Travel Reimbursement Form Questions about the Salons? Dr. Paul O. Myhre Senior Associate Director myhrep@wabash.edu. Honorarium Participants in the Salons will receive an honorarium of $3,000 for full participation in the online Salon meetings and the culminating meeting in Indianapolis on June 28-20, 2021. Read More about Payment of Participants Social Media Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Flicker Lilly Endowment, Inc. Other Lilly Supported Initiatives

While the mission of theological education remains solid, the institutional turmoil has been exacerbated by the crisis of the pandemic.  These two prominent presidents will discuss the ramifications, implications and possibilities for seminaries during this societal upheaval.  Additionally, they will discuss the heightened uncertainty of the vocations of religion and theology scholars in the academy.  Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield hosts Dr. Stephen G. Ray, Jr. (Chicago Theological Seminary) and Dr. Angela D. Sims (Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School).

In this time of uncertainty and grief, religious leaders need new and old imaginations to unleash the power of liturgy and sermons to heal, comfort, and inspire. What intellectual, spiritual and creative wells can be drawn upon to address the suffering of the people? Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield hosts Dr. Lisa L. Thompson (Vanderbilt University) and Dr. Richard Voelz (Union Presbyterian Seminary).

Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield hosts Dr. Marsha Foster Boyd (Luther Seminary) and Dr. Stephanie Crumpton (McCormick Theological Seminary). Pandemic, crisis, quarantine, homeschooling, working remotely, job loss, grief and sorrow - all experiences of stress, strain and struggle. This conversation will focus upon issues of care for the soul during this time of Covid19. What practices of self-care are needed in this moment?

Students are asking questions about the pandemic, the messages of the Bible, and faith during crisis. What does it mean to teach the Bible in ways that recognize contemporary crisis and opportunity?  Dr. Mitzi Smith (Columbia Theological Seminary) and Dr. Roger Nam (Portland Seminary) will discuss their creative approaches to teaching biblical literature and interpretation during this pandemic.   Register in advance: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Veya87tUQxmKGuVxIdFyWg

Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield hosts Dr. Emilie Townes (Vanderbilt University - The Divinity School) and Dr. Valerie Bridgeman (Methodist Theological School in Ohio). In crisis times, the creative voice speaks to the soul. The scholarly voice does not have to eclipse the creative voice. As published poets and scholars, these womanists will talk about their creative process and its influence upon their scholarship. They will also read original works. Thursday, April 16th, 2020 1:00 PM (Eastern Time) Register in advance: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t7EcFYJaQQSCgiyrfDX2oA

Being Black/Teaching Black: Writing Volume II This, by invitation only, colloquy gathers senior womanist scholars for reflection on Black women's experience in the religious studies and theology classroom in order to write a second volume of the anthology Being Black/Teaching Black (2010). We will focus on Black women's being, on the challenges of maintaining wholeness and being healthy, and on teaching for freedom from oppression. We want to think about how to reclaim and to rekindle discredited knowledges using the imagination to address suffering in and of the self what it has meant and cost to refuse destruction; and how we might bring into our lives the formation we had as religious beingsbeforeour academic formation to address these issues. This colloquy will move us towards writing memoir as an alternative expression of the teaching and writing life.Each participant will submit work(s) of creative non-fiction, poetry, short-story, or imaginative prose for the burgeoning anthology – Being Black/Teaching Black: Volume II. Dates To Be Determined Leadership Team Nancy Lynne Westfield, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia Sophfronia Scott, Regis University Aiken Edwards, Independent Scholar Paul Myhre, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Participants: Teresa L. Fry Brown, Candler School of Theology, Emory University Gay L. Byron, Howard University Rachel E. Harding, University of Colorado, Denver Barbara Holmes, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities (Emerita) Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Shaw University Divinity School Vanessa Lovelace, Lancaster Theological Seminary Lorena Parrish, Wesley Theological Seminary Marcia Y. Riggs, Columbia Theological Seminary Mitzi J. Smith, Columbia Theological Seminary Lakeesha Walrond, New York Theological Seminary Almeda M. Wright, Yale Divinity School Important Information Travel and Accommodations for Summer Sessions at the Wabash Center Policy on Participation Map of Wabash College Campus Things To Do In Crawfordsville - Recreation Travel Reimbursement Form Foreign National Information Form Payment of Honorarium