This article explores notions of multiculturalism, and how the term is to be understood practically within theological education, mission and ministry. By taking the author's Indian heritage as a context, the article traces social and political usage of multiculturalism as an ideology and questions how multiculturalism should effectively be employed by public theologians, within theological seminary programmes in a western context. This article explores notions of multiculturalism, and how the term is to be understood practically within theological education, mission and ministry. By taking the author's Indian heritage as a context, the article traces social and political usage of multiculturalism as an ideology and questions how multiculturalism should effectively be employed by public theologians, within theological seminary programmes in a western context.