About
Dr. Krista E. Hughes is a constructive theologian by training and currently serves as Director of the Muller Center at Newberry College in Newberry, South Carolina.
In her teaching, writing, speaking, and facilitating, she invites, challenges, and equips people to explore big questions for the sake of a more just world. She weaves theological and vocational inquiry with critical reflection on pressing social issues, in particular encouraging people to investigate the place where their spiritual identity and convictions meets their civic identity and responsibilities.
At Newberry she has developed programming and resources related to vocational exploration, religious pluralism and interfaith engagement, racial justice, and the art of civil conversation.
A child of the U.S. South who left, lived and traveled widely, and then returned to put down roots, Krista is committed to drawing on the beauty, richness, and warmth of the South and its people while grappling with its damaging legacies.
A long-time student of and advocate for gender justice, Krista's current writing project is focused primarily on white identity. As the U.S. moves through a new era of facing its foundational legacy of racism, those who identify as white must find generative ways to engage their whiteness and its implications. Krista is exploring ways to help people do so.
In her teaching, writing, speaking, and facilitating, she invites, challenges, and equips people to explore big questions for the sake of a more just world. She weaves theological and vocational inquiry with critical reflection on pressing social issues, in particular encouraging people to investigate the place where their spiritual identity and convictions meets their civic identity and responsibilities.
At Newberry she has developed programming and resources related to vocational exploration, religious pluralism and interfaith engagement, racial justice, and the art of civil conversation.
A child of the U.S. South who left, lived and traveled widely, and then returned to put down roots, Krista is committed to drawing on the beauty, richness, and warmth of the South and its people while grappling with its damaging legacies.
A long-time student of and advocate for gender justice, Krista's current writing project is focused primarily on white identity. As the U.S. moves through a new era of facing its foundational legacy of racism, those who identify as white must find generative ways to engage their whiteness and its implications. Krista is exploring ways to help people do so.