Presbyterian Peace Fellowship - Announcing guest speakers!

‌ Announcing guest speakers! We are really excited to announce our guest speakers for the spring gathering in Kansas City! Besides reconnecting and enjoying meals in person at a table together.... our gathering will be focused on studying abolition and skilling up in organizing tools for the sake of meeting the current political moment. Rev. Anne Dunlap will guide us in our study and practice of abolition, and Dr. Reggie Williams will speak to the rise of Christian Nationalism and our call to resist it. Activist Council Gathering May 7 - 10 Heartland Center * Kansas City, MO REGISTER GUEST SPEAKERS Rev. Anne Dunlap (she/her)  is the Faith Coordinator for Showing Up for Racial Justice. Nurtured into faith-rooted organizing in the Central America solidarity movement in the 1980s, she is particularly grateful to the Central American, Black, immigrant, worker, and indigenous leaders who have challenged and taught her to think and act more deeply about what it means to be human, and what it means to be free. Anne is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and also the founder of FierceRev Remedies, offering herbal consults, workshops, mentorship as well as consulting, teaching, and preaching, all towards the goal of racial justice and collective liberation that’s rooted in healing practice with the land.  Dr. Reggie Williams is Professor of Christian Ethics at McCormick Theological Seminary. His book Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance (Baylor University Press, 2014) was selected as a Choice Outstanding Title in 2015, in the field of religion. The book is an analysis of exposure to Harlem Renaissance intellectuals, and worship at Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist on the German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, during his year of post-doctoral study at Union Seminary in New York, 1930-31. Dr. Williams’ research interests include Christological ethics, theological anthropology, Christian social ethics, the Harlem Renaissance, race, politics and black church life. His current book project includes a religious critique of whiteness in the Harlem Renaissance. We hope to see you soon. Please reach out with any questions about the gathering. Register to join us. David Ensign Interim Executive Director Presbyterian Peace Fellowship 845-786-6743 | presbypeacefellowship.org Instagram | Facebook | Twitter