Join us for RLC Book Club as we sit with School(s) for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism, and Dr. Jorden Sharick — and discuss the various communal attempts to discern the marks of a new monasticism in the inner cities and forgotten landscapes of the Empire that is America.
Jorden Sharick studies race and evangelicalism in the US. He is currently a Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, where he develops educational programming for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. He also teaches in Stanford’s Department of Religious Studies. Jorden’s research focuses on the ways that history, power, and identity are transmitted through faith narratives. His recent projects draw on his fieldwork with leaders in the New Monastic movement to explore the stories that White evangelicals tell about racial justice. He is particularly interested in the ideas about God, Christ, and neighbor such stories imagine; the forms of self-reflection they enable; and the possibilities for justice they open and constrain. Jorden earned his PhD in religion from Harvard University and his MDiv from Harvard Divinity School. He has undergraduate degrees from the University of California, Riverside, and Moreno Valley Community College.