Tracey Shenell

Our Unforming

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“Our Unforming is the breath of fresh air my body, mind, and soul crave. It has given me new insight and awareness as I continue my lifelong formation journey of ‘uncluttering,’ communing with God, co-journeying, and leading others as they do the same. Dr. Lee helps us see the need for new languages, orientations, and postures in spiritual formation. Drawing from her rich cultural heritage and wealth of knowledge, Lee helps us to begin our unforming of Western paradigms of formation that focus on progress, knowledge, and the individual. “This work guides us to embrace orientations and postures that are grounded in the lived experiences and reality of our ancestors, passed down on the front porch, at the kitchen table, and in the living room. It gives BIPOC folks permission to embrace their own cultural heritage and postures they may have put down and abandoned in favor of Western paradigms that have been center stage. Lee draws us back to the heart of spiritual formation as she guides us into connecting and being formed by God as a way of being versus doing, both individually and communally. “This book is a must-have for folks who lead others in spiritual formation—not as a how-to book, but as an invitation to deepen their own journey so they may be unformed and formed; so that they may guide and lead others in a more holistic, embodied, and authentic way. This book is needed for the church and its body, who have found themselves desolate and dry like the deer in Psalm 42, longing and thirsting for our living God to be present and near as we navigate the complex reality of our lives and society.”