Formation for the Future
Sunday, Nov. 16
10 a.m., Crail C
Canon for Formation with the Episcopal Diocese of Texas Dr. Josh Ritter will offer an exploration and re-imagining of future Christian formation.
All are invited to re-imagine together what living and learning communities, an ecology of discipleship, and an ecosystem of the Body of Christ might look like on our journey into a multi-generational, multi-lingual, and multi-cultural future. A future of deeper inter-connection and more meaningful inter-relationship. How can we become formed more significantly into the shape of Jesus’s life and teachings?
Where is the Spirit of God leading us? Where is God beckoning us to follow, and will we listen? How can we learn to create spaces of belonging without othering?
Come and join us as we address these questions together!
About Dr. Josh Ritter
Canon Dr. Josh R. Ritter holds an M.Div. from McAfee School of Theology and a Ph.D. from Georgia State University in communication studies, specifically rhetorical theory and criticism and religious rhetoric. He served as a minister in various contexts for more than 20 years. He taught in higher education for more than 15 years, and he focused on discipleship and formation work for more than 12 years while working with undergraduate, graduate, and seminary students at Baylor University. He also served as a hospital chaplain and a VA chaplain. He first began attending The Episcopal Church in Atlanta, GA, at St. Bartholomew’s around 2005, and he has attended St. Alban’s in Waco for almost 10 years, where he served as an usher and a vestry member. He currently attends St. Julian of Norwich Episcopal Church in Cedar Park, TX.
Dr. Ritter’s trainings and practices focus on different forms of communication, public deliberation, leadership, discipleship, spiritual formation, and deliberative theology. His primary concern in his work emphasizes the ways we love our neighbors by the ways we get to know our neighbors.
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