Flesh and Blood: Crafting a Communal Constructive Theological Anthropology

• This writing workshop is invitation-only. 

The Collegeville Institute will host Flesh and Blood: Crafting a Communal Constructive Theological Anthropology. Led by Lakisha R. Lockhart-Rusch and Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein (Collegeville Institute alum) and supported by Episcopal Divinity School, this workshop will bring together sixteen racially and ethnically minoritized scholars and practitioners from all over North America to collectively innovate how theological anthropology is done.

Thinking, writing, and co-creating in community, these theologically trained writer-practitioners and academic scholars will share their takes on what it means to be human from a (mostly) Christian perspective expanding discourse that Christians and the Christian church can use to grow its understanding of the human story. More than a writing project, Flesh & Blood aims to promote a just, embodied, communal writing experience. The experience will not only include time for individual and communal writing, but meals, dreaming, storyboarding, and game time.

Writing Workshop and Retreat Leaders

Lakisha R. Lockhart-Rusch (PhD, Boston College) is assistant professor of religious education at Union Presbyterian Seminary. Her research interests include religious education, practical, liberation, and womanist theologies, ethics and society, multiple intelligences, embodied faith, theological aesthetics, theopoetics, creativity, imagination, and play.

Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein (ThD, Duke Divinity School) is associate professor in Black religious traditions, constructive theology, and ethics at Brite Divinity School. Her scholarly work engages Black theopoetics and creative articulations of American African feminist, womanist, postcolonial, and Black theologies with particular attention to women’s voices within the African diaspora.