We live in a media culture, surrounded by ever-evolving digital technologies. While state schools and secular organizations have embraced the new teaching tools and models for learning that technology affords, religious institutions have struggled with how and why to do the same. All that we can't leave behind: Engaging technology in theological education is a breakthrough book that invites religious educators to both engage and adapt their pedagogy to incorporate new media and technology. Drawing from her expertise as a seminary professor and consultant to religious institutions on the use of technology in teaching, Mary Hess invites professors, pastors, seminarians, and anyone interested in religious education into critical reflection on ways of engaging technology to enhance learning and serve as critical interpreters within communities of faith.

"Philosophically deep and culturally diverse and relevant...seminary faculties have in Hess’s book a series of wonderful discussion starters about the 'why-to' of technology for theological education." - Teaching Theology & Religion

"A thoughtful analysis on the ways in which media culture can, and ought, to be used in the seminary context. In the process of explaining her rationale for a distinctly modern approach to theological education, she makes a variety of practical points as well, that would certainly prove helpful to those wishing to adopt her methodological and theoretical propositions." - Religious Education:An Interfaith Journal Of Spirituality,Growth And Transformation

"Part of the great value of Engaging Technology in Theological Education, is implicit in its calling and challenging theological educators to consider the multiple-intelligences and varied learning styles among students....Hess has written a wonderful resource for faculty in reflecting on their pedagogical strategies and approaches - especially if and when anticipating developing online course and curricula. It would serve especially well as the heart of a faculty conference or retreat on technology and pedagogy." - Review & Expositor