Every faith tradition is faced with the task of preparing leaders who are equipped to work effectively in richly diverse contexts. 

• What are the unique challenges and possibilities about ministerial/religious formation today? 
• How does each faith tradition enhance and impede responding positively to diversity? 
• What does it mean for the process itself when formation occurs in a diverse or interfaith context?
• Beyond continuing to attend to our own social location, what must we learn about responding to religious and cultural difference in order to live and lead authentically and peaceably in diverse contexts?
• What present assumptions about formation need to be challenged in order that future religious leaders will be prepared to lead in changed and changing contexts? 

Send essays to Herbert Anderson, editor, at handerson@plts.edu by December 1, 2008.