In his lecture “Perceiving, Dwelling, and Creating Communion,” Willie Jennings warns against commodification and objectification, and looks to how we might move toward a life of communion and reciprocity.

In response, Sebastian Kim hopes for a more expansive doctrine of creation that draws on the wisdom of eco-feminist theology and looks to the interconnectedness of all creatures in the created world; Mark Lau Branson reflects on how we must perceive the creator and creation through the many eyes of others in order to dwell in communion and reciprocity; and Erin Dufault-Hunter reflects on the work it takes to be transformed to neighborliness—while naming the beauty and grace that comes with it.

Willie Jennings is associate professor of systematic theology and Africana studies at Yale Divinity School. Sebastian Kim is academic dean for the Korean Center and the Robert Wiley Professor of Renewal and Public Life. Mark Lau Branson is the Homer L. Goddard Professor of the Ministry of the Laity. Erin Dufault-Hunter is associate professor of Christian ethics.