Last week The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology hosted the 8th annual Stanley Grenz Lecture series. The lecture was scheduled for November 2, 2020 . . . yes, that’s right! On the eve of 2020 Presidential election. Dr. Brian Bantum is the key note, and he invites three colleagues into conversation. He titled the lecture “Dare we Hope for Tomorrow.”
The video is about 1 hour and 40 minutes, and it is worth every minute. I highly commend it to you.
About Dr. Brian Bantum
Dr. Bantum is the Neil F. And Ila A. Fisher Chair of Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. He is the author of Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity and The Death of Race: Building a New Christianity in a Racial World.
Dr. Pamela Lightsey
Dr. Lightsey is a womanist theologian and activist. She currently serves as Vice President for Academic Affairs at Meadville Lombard Theological School and Associate Professor of Constructive Theology. As an activist, Dr. Lightsey has worked within the LGBTQ community to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell military policy, and to ensure marriage equality. She continues to critique churches for homophobic polity, liturgy, and homiletics. Author of Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology.
Dr. Patrick B. Reyes
Dr. Reyes is the author of the forthcoming book The Purpose Gap: Empowering Communities of Color to Find Meaning and Thrive, and of the award-winning book Nobody Cries When We Die: God, Community, and Surviving to Adulthood. A Chicano educator, administrator, and institutional strategist, he currently serves as Senior Director of Learning Design at the Forum for Theological Exploration.
Dr. Christine J. Hong
Dr. Hong is Assistant Professor of Educational Ministry at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. Her interests include anti-colonial and decolonial approaches to religious and interreligious education and life. Hong’s interests also include Asian American spiritualties, and the spiritual and theological formation of children and adolescents among BIPOC communities.
Peace, dwight
