ABSTRACT
The Interdenominational Theological Center, known as ITC by those in theological education, is known in other circles as "that radical preacher's school down in Atlanta". ITC envisioned itself as providing rigorous and relevant theological education that would enable Black churches and their communities to seize this new horizon. ITC would serve the age by preparing clergy to lead Black communities and their churches. As important as ITC's history was in influencing my decision to enroll, so was my own family heritage. Long before the constituent schools came together, Gammon Theological Seminary, one of ITC's parent institutions, had trained Black clergy for almost a century. So for ITC, the mission that began in 1958 did not end with the era of civil rights gains; it only adapted to the changing landscape of racialization. Indeed, ITC's commitment to educate leaders extended to the entire Black church, and its many communities, not simply to those whom the church had historically privileged.
