Dustin D. Benac
dustindbenac.bsky.social
Dustin D. Benac
@dustindbenac.bsky.social
Professor | Educator | Author | Father | Husband | Friend

Bending imagination toward hope through institutions, belonging, and ordinary practice.
Here are just a few of the sights from new faculty orientation at Baylor University as I transition into an expanded role.

It’s a great joy and honor to continue the work I’ve been doing in an expanded role this fall alongside more than 100 new faculty!
August 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
April 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
We open #PathwaysToBelonging by talking about how belonging is an invitation to reality. Belonging is not simply a feeling, or a sense; it is a reality we all need. It is also a reality we have the opportunity to foster and offer in our lives and in our communities.
April 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Dr. Willie James Jennings offers a beautiful foreword to Pathways to Belonging, co-edited with Erin Weber Johnson & Glen Bell. His words are 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Here and elsewhere, his writing invites all of us to participate in God’s ongoing work of making and remaking our sense of belonging.

Check it out!
April 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Delighted to share it is PUBLICATION day for this book!

In a time when belonging is called into question and we all long to belong, Pathways to Belonging is an invitation to imagine and embody another way, exploring the promise and peril of Christian belonging.
April 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I’m looking forward to joining the Centre for Missional Leadership for a conversation about #friendship and #loneliness in ministry.

If you are in the Vancouver area, please join us!
April 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Sharing my fist post to
find other #writers!

I’m delighted to announce a new book, Pathways to Belonging, co-edited with Erin Weber-Johnson & Glen Bell w/ a foreword from Willie James Jennings.

#Belonging is the air we breathe, we need it to survive.

Pre-order: wipfandstock.com/979838520332...
March 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM