Evan Hunter

Evan Hunter

Developing a Community of Scholars: Building a Unified Faculty in Theological Schools

Author’s Note: This paper was originally composed for the 40th anniversary celebration of the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies in Bangalore, India. Abstract: Several current trends lend themselves toward increased isolation and individualization within the faculties of theological schools. Financial pressures, less face-to-face interaction with students, increased technology use, and increasing use of… read more

Effective Leadership: Board Relationships in Theological Institutions

Author’s Note: This article builds on ideas shared at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary Board meeting in September 2023, where I was asked to reflect on the relationship between the board and the executive leader. I’m grateful for interactions with the board members and with Scholar Leaders Vital Sustainability Initiative team members, who have helped shape these… read more

Voices from Asia

The cover of this issue of the InSights Journal for Global Theological Education features artwork from Katsuhika Hokusai, “Kajikazawa in Kai Province,” from his series, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, produced in the first half of the nineteenth century. The image depicts a fisherman casting a net into the Fuji River, shortly below the confluence… read more

Where We Do Our Theology Matters

“It used to be that we did our theology in the school and then went and practiced it. Now we are doing our theology out of our practice,” says Taras Dyatlik, Regional Director for Overseas Council and consultant to the ScholarLeaders Vital SustainAbility project. He shared these words over Zoom, speaking to a group of… read more

Roundtable: Ukrainian Men’s Voices

Introduction: Evan Hunter “It has begun”: Taras Dyatlik and I looked at each other in the hallway of the apartment we shared on the campus of University Divitia Gratiae (UDG) in Moldova. Four days before, we had arrived in Chisinau. For the first two days, against the backdrop of rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine,… read more

Amplifying Voices in the Conversation

Several years ago, while attending a theology conference that included renowned scholars, emerging faculty, and doctoral students, I was struck by who was not present: non-Western Christian leaders. Too often, whether in the halls of conference centers or in the pages of journals, a vast majority of the body of Christ remains underrepresented. Among the… read more

What Are We Learning? A Critical Question for Theological Institutions in a Time of Disruption

“You talk about coming out of the pandemic, but we are very much in the middle of it”: Those words, spoken by a friend in Latin America, stand as a stark reminder that the COVID-19 crisis has not only impacted the world but continues to do so. Theological education in particular has not escaped the… read more

Continuing On After the Hurricane

For many of us, time seems to have stopped since the term “COVID-19” entered the global lexicon. Yet, in theological education, things have also sped up, as many leaders find themselves busier than ever – meeting immediate needs in the community, shifting to virtual learning, scrambling to stretch budgets, caring for sick or grieving faculty… read more

Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis: Moving from Desperation to Hope in Theological Education

“We live in an unprecedented time.” Those words, alongside adjectives like “strange,” “unique,” and “challenging,” have been repeated frequently since the term “novel coronavirus” entered the collective lexicon. In the last 50 years, perhaps no other event has impacted so much of the world so quickly and so thoroughly as the COVID-19 pandemic. For theological… read more

استجابةٌ لجائحة ڤيروس الكورونا الُمستجد

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