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On behalf of Theos and CCLA, this year's Theos Annual Lecture was 'Reimagining Western Education in a Time of Racial Crisis', given by Dr. Willie Jennings and chaired by Nick Spencer. Dr. Willie Jennings is one of the leading thinkers on race in the modern world. A theologian and associate professor of systematic theology and Africana studies at Yale University, he's an ordained Baptist minister and the author of the award-winning 'The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race'. His book 'After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging' was published last year, and he has also recorded an episode for Theos' podcast, The Sacred. His lecture explores the past, present and future of race in the Western world. Promoting belonging, equity, and inclusion have become crucial goals in the academy and western society more broadly. Yet, he argues, we are in need of a new vision of intellectual and moral formation that brings these goals into the heart of our educational systems and our social practices. Such a vision, he suggests, requires we confront the image of formation that has dominated the educated imagination that of a white self-sufficient man. In this lecture, Willie proposes a different image and a new vision around which to imagine societies that promote equity, inclusion, and belonging.