Rev. Aaron Stauffer, PhD, is the Director of Online Learning and the Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt Divinity School. His forthcoming book Listening to the Spirit: The Radical Social Gospel, Sacred Values, and Broad-based Community Organizing, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2024. He graduated from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York in 2020 with a PhD in social ethics.
The true gift Tran has given us is a theologically provocative understanding of the church as a certain kind of deep economy. I will be thinking with it and learning from it for a long time.