“Charts don’t matter”: The Future of Religious – Non-religious Dialogue
Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab for a discussion of its recent work, supported by the Louisville Institute, on the promise and potential of greater dialogue between religious and non-religious communities.
We’ll discuss what community means, why widely-reported demographic shifts must be considered in context, and what the future might hold for American religion.
The working paper mentioned in this webinar is available here, including an opportunity to offer your own contribution.
We have indexed this webinar to the following learning outcomes, which should not be construed as endorsement of this event by either ACPE or BCCI.
ACPE Category A: Spiritual Formation and Integration – Outcome 3: Spiritual/Values-Based Orienting Systems – Level IA – IA.5 – Describe how one’s values and beliefs about spiritual care are part of one’s orienting systems.
ACPE Category A: Spiritual Formation and Integration – Outcome 2: Socio-Cultural Identity – Level IB – IB.3 – Articulate how one’s social identity informs one’s approach to spiritual care.
ACPE Category A: Spiritual Formation and Integration – Outcome 3: Spiritual/Values-Based Orienting Systems – Level IB – IB.5 – Demonstrate how one’s orienting systems inform spiritual care encounters
BCCI Section II: Professional Identity and Conduct (PIC): PIC1 – Identify one’s professional strengths and limitations in the provision of spiritual care.
BCCI Section II: Professional Identity and Conduct (PIC): PIC2 – Articulate ways in which one’s feelings, values, assumptions, culture, and social location affect professional practice.
This webinar is part of a larger project supported by the Louisville Institute’s Pastoral Study Project program. You can learn more here.
Joseph L. Tucker Edmonds is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis and the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and Economics from Brown University, his Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and his PhD in Religious Studies from Duke University.
Professor Tucker Edmonds’ research interests are Black religion and the Black body, alternative Christianities, and the role of scripture in African and African American religious traditions. In addition to his focus on institutions and practices of resilience and resistance in African American communities, Tucker Edmonds is an award- winning teacher and an engaged scholar. He is the former president of the local Indianapolis branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) and is a member of the editorial board of Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. Tucker Edmonds’ book, The Other Black Church: Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom (Fortress 2020), highlights the variety and vibrancy of the African American Christian sphere during the latter half of the twentieth century and it adds to the growing body of work that is addressing alternative Christian traditions in the Black public sphere.
Suzanne Watts Henderson is Senior Director of Faith and Health at Interfaith America. She consults mainly with the strategic initiatives team, leading Interfaith America’s growing exploration at the intersection of faith and health. An ordained Disciples minister and New Testament scholar, Suzanne has spent the last two decades in higher education, serving as professor and dean of the chapel and leading efforts to embed religious pluralism across campus units. Despite her Duke doctorate, Suzanne’s basketball loyalties lie with UNC, where she majored in English. In between, her time at Princeton Seminary brought both a degree (M.Div.) and a spouse, with whom (more than three decades later!) she now shares an outdoor-oriented, travel-happy, empty-nest life based in Charlotte, with frequent visits to adult children in DC, Denver, and LA.
SueJeanne Koh is the Assistant Director of Graduate Futures and Research Engagement at the Humanities Center at the University of California, Irvine. In her position, she develops programming for humanities PhD students on professional development and diverse career pathways. She is also a writer and teacher in Christian theology and ethics who has published on academic contingency, Asian American and Reformed theology, and settler colonialism. SueJeanne is invested in building collaborations across educational institutions, religious communities, and nonprofit organizations to address social and political challenges, and sustainable organizational practices. Since 2023, she has been an interfaith partner with The Wildland-Urban Interface Climate Action Network (WUICAN), a collaboration between the University of California, Irvine, UC Riverside and UC San Diego, Tribes, community groups, and land managers that are working together to address the climate crisis. She is certified ready for a call in the PC(USA).
