Global Theological Education
Under the auspices of the Theology Among the People (TAP) program and with the assistance of a generous grant from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Southeast Conference is sponsoring an intensive two-week immersion trip to Chiang Mai, Thailand in January, 2008. In light of TAP’s mission to provide quality theological education to equip its participants for ministry in their particular contexts, the goal of the trip is to provide an experiential basis for global theological reflection through inter-religious and intra-religious dialogue and conflict transformation and peace-building.
The trip is being coordinated in conjunction with the Institute for the Study of Religion, Culture and Peace at Payap University in Thailand to create a rich immersion experience from which participants can apply their learning to impact and educate their communities on the stated issues.
Objectives of the trip include that the participants will:
- widen their social, global, and theological perspectives through an international cultural immersion experience;
- foster increased awareness, appreciation, and mutual cooperation among various religious communities;
- encounter peace-building and reconciliation programs in the Thai context;
- understand the relations between inter/intra-religious dialogue and its implications for peace-building and conflict transformation;
- apply their learning to contribute to greater inter/intra-religious understanding and peace-building in their local contexts and communities;
- strengthen their identity and role as pastors and lay leaders by engaging in critical theological reflection in the multicultural and pluralistic global context of the present era.
For more information about TAP’s Global Theological Education initiative, please contact the program coordinator, Rev. Sarah Kim, at skim@secucc.org.
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