Mai-Anh Le Tran

In the Beginning Were Stories, Not Texts

Theology

“"C. S. Song the Griot chants with the entrancing cadence of an old-hand peddler of tales. Story-telling is a human practice of meaning-making, he reminds us, and through webs of stories we catch potent expressions of divine mystery and human struggle. Uninvested in cultural-linguistic expositions for narrative classification and hermeneutic regulation, Song simply invites readers/listeners into story worlds across time and cultures so that we may live into the fantastical nature of God-talk and human-talk.”

On Becoming Wise Together

Discipleship & Christian Education

“If theological education is inherently designed by/with/for affection, attention, and aspiration, then this book is a sense-filled choreography offered by an ever-creative artistic director for an entirely new “curriculum” that defies the paradigms of an age-old enterprise in desperate need of transformation. Chasséing in and out of in-between spaces, Maria Liu Wong draws us into (auto)ethnographic story-worlds that give witness to incredible, inspiring, transnational, interracial, intercultural, interdenominational, interreligious, and intergenerational bonds of love, courage, witness, and hope. Our senses are blown open by the sights, sounds, smells which this master teacher conjures. She even teaches us how to read her book differently. A clever recipe for dissolving our prior assumptions about the telos of theological formation, learning, and leading. Imagine theological education as a dance by/with/for children, youth, young adults, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, families, friends, neighbors, churches, and communities—for peace in the city and the flourishing of God’s people and world. What a wonderful new world: Theological education through everyday faith and life…for all…and it is possible!”

The Grace of Playing

Discipleship & Christian Education

“In this book, Goto coaxes religious educators to step into the sandbox with theologians, psychoanalysts, medieval nuns and holy fools, Issei Garden Angels, and juvenile offenders, to show what it takes to teach communities of faith to play with God and one another for love's sake. Be prepared to cast aside facile notions of escapist play for a theoretically sophisticated and existentially hefty introduction to 'revelatory experiencing.' A marvelous, aesthetic, practical theological playground for contemporary Christian religious education scholarship.”