22 Mar 2024
22 Mar 2024

ATS Globalizing Conversations Webinar Series

  • Price: FREE

Overview

By invitation; Developed for ATS member school administrators, faculty, students, and anyone—especially historic global partners of ATS—interested in global awareness and engagement in theological education.

Formation research leader David C. Wang will join us in examining new frontiers in the intersection of faith, science, and human flourishing from a global, ecumenical, culturally decentered, and science-integrated perspective by exploring questions like, how does one define formation and how can formation be cultivated across diverse contexts among diverse peoples?

A set of three webinars, the Global Conversations series will explore the three current thematic foci of the ATS’s Global Awareness and Engagement Initiative: (1) understanding effective globally shaped partnerships; (2) developing practice-oriented implications of global engagement for a theological school’s mission, and (3) exploring the need for globally-oriented student learning and formation.

The deadline to register is Thursday, March 21.

 


Agenda

Workshops

Accommodations

Presenters
David C. Wang

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David C. Wang

David C. Wang is the Cliff and Joyce Penner Chair of the formation of emotionally healthy leaders at Fuller Theological Seminary, where his academic and applied work focuses on the holistic formation of Christian leaders, inclusive of the formation of emotional health and resilience alongside the leader’s intellectual and spiritual formation. With this expertise, Wang helped draft the accreditation standards of The Association of Theological Schools pertaining to the spiritual formation of seminary students. He also serves on the advisory board of the ATS Global Awareness and Engagement Initiative, where he is supporting efforts to bring together global theological educators to better understand and support the unique spiritual and developmental needs of diverse Christian leaders around the world. He serves as editor of the Journal of Psychology and Theology, is a licensed psychologist who maintains a small clinical practice, and is pastor of spiritual formation at One Life City Church. Wang oversees the Seminary Formation Assessment Project, a program of research funded by the John Templeton Foundation, which conducts longitudinal empirical research on the human and spiritual formation of students enrolled in 18 North American seminaries representing a variety of backgrounds including Eastern Orthodox, Episcopal, Evangelical, Mainline Protestant, and Roman Catholic. Wang is also co-principal investigator of the Trauma-Resilient Church Collective Program, a five-year project funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. mobilizing diverse local congregations to address both individual and systemic factors as they meet the spiritual and mental health needs of trauma survivors. He earned a PhD from the University of Houston and a ThM from Regent College (Vancouver, British Columbia).

 


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Webinar Contact
Alyson Barra

 

Date & Time
Fri, Mar 22, 2024 , 1:00 p.m. ET
Fri, Mar 22, 2024 , 2:15 p.m. ET

Location
Zoom

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