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Theological education has always been about formation: first of people, then of communities, then of the world. If we continue to promote whiteness and its related ideas of masculinity and individualism in our educational work, it will remain diseased and thwart our efforts to heal the church and the world. But if theological education aims to form people who can gather others together through...

words, spoken and written. Unfortunately, Christians, especially Christians who would come to be called Europeans, did not handle that power well. In the history of Christianity and its missions, worlds formed around the bodies of teachers and translators. The specific world I am concerned with here is the world of education that formed around the colonial legacies of teachers and translators and gave us Western education and, specifically, theological education. I want to honor the legacies of women
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