Moseses, Miriams, Monarch

Migrations

&

Teaching for Redemptive

Community

Dori Baker

Nov. 11, 2014

“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.”

Three Jack-isms

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.

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.

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.

• Culture of Anxiety

• Culture of Busy

• Done with Churchly Ways

• Places to be vulnerable

• Practices of prayer and

sabbath

• Mentors for the hard stuff

Global

Presencing Institute

MIT April, 2014

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)

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.

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.

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.

All Saint’s Day, 2014