Episode 7 - Callid Keefe-Perry

In this month’s podcast, we sit down and speak with Callid Keefe-Perry. Callid is an educator, consultant, theologian, improvisor, and minister within the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). He is Assistant Professor of Contextual Education and Public Theology at Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry, where he also serves as Director of Field Education for the Master of Theology and Ministry. His work brings together public theology and practical theology, with a focus on imagination, creativity, and education as sites of human and societal change. His research engages areas such as liberation theology, critical pedagogy, trauma studies, and theologies of imagination, and he is the author of numerous articles as well as the books Way to Water: A Theopoetics Primer and Sense of the Possible: An Introduction to Theology and Imagination.

In our conversation we focus especially on his recent book, Tending Call: A Liberation Theology of Vocation. In it, Callid offers a practical and justice-oriented approach to vocation grounded in the realities of people’s lives and the communities they belong to. He presents vocation as something worked out over time, through ongoing discernment, rather than a single decision or fixed path. Drawing on liberation theology, the book brings together theological reflection and spiritual formation, and recognises that calling takes shape within shared life, shaped by context and by others. It also widens the meaning of ministry beyond traditional roles, pointing to the many ways people participate in meaningful work in the world. The book invites a way of living with call that is steady and shaped in relation with others.

Please check out www.tendingcall.com along with the discount code "AUT30" that offers readers money off their purchase if they are interested in buying the book. We highly recommend this!