Contextual Thinking (TEL - Cohort) FA26

Pacific School of Religion

Group-Based Medium Level Theological Imagination
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Contextual Thinking (TEL - Cohort) FA26

About This Course

This course is one part of nine in the Theological Education for Leadership (TEL) Learning Path for the Congregational Renewal Cohort offered by PSR.  It is one quarter of the full-term course of the same name and is considered the introduction to the introductory overview of Contextual Thinking.  Grounded in Afro-feminist, activism, decolonial theories, and queer perspectives, this course equips participants with indispensable tools and language to narrate their stories, identify their location and contextualize them in light of their communities. It endeavors to foster meaningful discussions on racial injustice, inequality, storytelling, and empowerment. Cohort starting in March 2027.

Course Components

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📋 6 Lessons
📚 5 Resources
✍️ 0 Quizzes
📖 18 Assignments

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Learning Objectives

In this TEL course, you will learn:

  1. Apply contextually based approaches to social issues, integrating skills and resources for effective communication, particularly as it related to colonialism, decolonialism, strong emotions and artivism.
  2. Cultivate spiritual practices that shape and sustain their work for racial justice.
  3. Lead communities in reflection about race and its intersections in diverse communities.
Instructor Your Instructor

Flora Tang

Dr. Flora x. Tang is Visiting Assistant Professor and Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow of Feminist and Ecological Theology at Pacific School of Religion. She holds a Ph.D in Peace Studies and Theology from the University of Notre Dame (2026), and an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School (2020). Born in Beijing, China and raised in the U.S. Midwest, Flora is a Catholic feminist theologian who researches and teaches at the intersection of decolonial theology, gender and sexuality studies, ecclesiology, and political ecology. Her current research focuses on Christian systematic theological responses to racialized displacement and environmental violence. Currently, Flora is working on her first manuscript, which turns to Christian eschatology and ecological theology to examine possibilities for shared ecological futures between Asian diasporic and Indigenous populations in the United States. Her other research projects investigate questions of church apologies for colonial wrongs and theologies of trauma-healing.

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