Flagler Forum on Youth and Family Ministry

Rev. Dr. Lakisha R. Lockhart is a mother, wife, daughter, sister, former Zumba instructor, Womanist and coolest auntie around. She believes in the power of play, movement, aesthetics, and creative arts in life and in theology, using the body as a locus for theological reflection. She is a consultant, immediate past executive secretary for the Religious Education Association, and in her professorial role as Associate Professor of Christian Education at Union Presbyterian Seminary she is not only a teacher, but a facilitator, rope jumper, game-player, advocate and catalyst for critical consciousness and engagement in educating in faith and actually living into that faith through various spiritual and artistic practices for liberation. 

This southern lady hails from Columbus, GA by way of Waynesville, MO. She received her B.A. in Philosophy and Religion from Claflin University, M.Div with a concentration in Pastoral Care and Counseling from Wesley Theological Seminary, M.A. in Ethics and Society from Vanderbilt University, and a Ph.D. in Theology and Education from Boston College. 

She is the author of Doing Theological Double Dutch: A Womanist Pedagogy of Play with Eerdmans. She is the co-editor of the books Theopoetics in Color:Embodied Approaches in Theological Discourse and Nobody’s Perfect: Redefining Sin and Mistakes in Adolescent Christian Education with Fortress.