Abstract
Cuba and the United States are so close together, yet so far apart. Separated by less than an hour’s plane flight, we have, nevertheless, been cut off from one another for more than 25 years. In an attempt to break down walls separating our religious and national communities, a group of us responded to the invitation of our Christian sisters and brothers to dialogue at the Evangelical Seminary in Matanzas, Cuba. Our group was composed of theological educators who teach in seminaries across the United States in the areas of New Testament, Systematic Theology, Ethics, and Black, Feminist, and Latin American Liberation Theology. Our church affiliations were United Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, United Church of Christ, Roman Catholic, Unitarian, Baptist, and Lutheran. We went to the Seminario Evangelico de Teologia in Matanzas, Cuba, to enter into an encuentro (encounter) with the professors and students of that seminary on “Theological Education in Global Perspective.”