MEMBERSHIP EVENTS
The following are events for members of ALLLM. If you are not a member but would like to participate, please visit the "membership" tab in the menu bar above and choose a membership level that fits your situation and interests.
For most membership events, an email will be sent to the entire membership one-week prior to the event indicating how to participate. Whenever possible, live sessions will be recorded and shared with the membership. If you have further questions, please contact us directly for details.
THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION BETWEEN THE TIMES: A LIFELONG LEARNING CONVERSATION
Theological education is changing rapidly. As schools and congregations adapt to these changes they are turning to the work of lifelong learning as a strategy to engage the continual – and lifelong – work that is leadership formation in ministry. The triumphs and challenges of this work are deeply familiar for ALLLM members. This spring and fall, ALLLM will host four membership events with thought leaders in the field of theological education. These conversations will address the challenges facing theological education today and the unique opportunities afforded through lifelong learning programs and the work of continuing education for the broader field. Theological Education Between the Times: A lifelong Learning Conversation will bring ALLLM membership together with authors of the Theological Education Between the Times book series, which comes out of a project of Candler School of Theology funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. and based at Emory’s Candler School of Theology. The project convenes diverse bodies of people for reflection on the meanings and purposes of theological education.
Dr. Willie James Jennings is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale Divinity School. Dr. Jennings' book The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (Yale 2010) won the American Academy of Religion Award of Excellence in the Study of Religion in the Constructive-Reflective category the year after it appeared and, in 2015, the Grawemeyer Award in Religion, the largest prize for a theological work in North America. Englewood Review of Books called the work a “theological masterpiece.” His commentary on the Book of Acts, titled Acts: A Commentary, The Revolution of the Intimate (for the Belief Series, Westminster/John Knox) received the Reference Book of the Year Award from The Academy of Parish Clergy in 2018. Dr. Jennings has also recently published a book that examines the problems of theological education within western education, entitled After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Eerdmans, 2020).
Elizabeth Conde-Frazier is Executive Director of Asociación para la Educación Teológica Hispana (AETH). Prior to this role, she served as dean and vice president of education at Esperanza College of Eastern University in Philadelphia, PA. Rev. Dr. Conde-Frazier was previously tenured associate professor of religious education at Claremont School of Theology and taught Hispanic Latino/a theology at the Latin American Bible Institute. Rev. Dr. Conde-Frazier also served as founding director of the Orlando E. Costas Hispanic and Latin-American Ministries Program at Andover Newton Theological School. While she was director, Rev. Dr. Conde-Frazier developed programs for the continuing education of ministers and lay leaders including youth. Rev. Dr. Conde-Frazier has authored Listen to the Children: Conversations with Immigrant Families and Hispanic Bible Institutes and co-authored A Many Colored Kingdom and Latina Evangélica. She has over ten years of experience as an ordained pastor and formerly served as a bilingual teacher in the New York City school system. The Rev. Dr. Conde-Frazier holds a Ph.D. from Boston College and a Master of Divinity degree from Palmer Seminary.
Amos Yong is director of the Center for Missiological Research (CMR) and professor of theology and mission in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. Previously, he served at Regent University School of Divinity as the J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology and as dean. He is past president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, with wide-ranging interests in systematic theology, Christian- Buddhist dialogue, theology of disability, and mission. Dr. Yong has authored or edited over 30 books. Among the most recent are The Future of Evangelical Theology: Soundings from the Asian American Diaspora (IVP Academic, 2014); Renewing Christian Theology: Systematics for a Global Christianity, with Jonathan A. Anderson (Baylor University Press, 2014); and The Cambridge Companion to Pentecostalism (Cambridge University Press, 2014), coedited with Cecil M. Robeck.