Volume 1, Issue 1 (2024) Teaching Race, Memory, Justice, and Reconciliation at Church-Related Colleges and Universities

Issue Abstract and Project on Lived Theology Collaboration Information

This issue of The Mahle Lectures presents content from the workshops and some of the conversations at the Lift Every Voice and Teach Colloquium held at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota on May 18–20, 2023. The colloquium included twenty-six participants from twenty-one church-affiliated and Christian colleges and universities in disciplines ranging from Biblical studies and theology to anthropology, sociology, history, English literature, and theater.

The colloquium was the culmination of a two-year workgroup of the Project on Lived Theology involving ten scholars supported by a grant from the Lilly Endowment: Lift Every Voice and Teach: Teaching Race, Memory, Justice, and Reconciliation (LEVaT). We spent the three days in Hameline University drawing our colleagues into the conversions the workgroup has been having over the last two years. The articles presented here are not academic papers—though they contain significant academic research, wisdom, and classroom experience—they are “Workshop Notes” that serve as both a record of our gathering at a particular moment in the history of American Christianity and education and hopefully a place for our colleagues to glean some ideas, tools, and inspiration for their own teaching and to continue the conversation.