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A faith-based speaker series that brings together leading thinkers in the church and the academy to give the talks of their lives in 20 minutes or less.
Atlanta, GA
Joined February 2022
That concludes TheoEd Austin! Stay tuned for recordings of tonight's talks and more resources like discussion guides, and follow our speakers to hear more from them: @lisasharper, @johnpavlovitz, @KPowellFYI, @austinseminary president José Irizarry, & @ChaunceyDFHandy
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"If it's not good news for the oppressed, it's not Jesus's good news." - @lisasharper
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"You don't want a perfect tortilla. You want many good tortillas." - on how tortillas are like biblical interpretation @ChaunceyDFHandy
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At today’s @TheoEd talk hosted by @candlerfoundry, I got to meet one of my favorite Truth Tellers, @kkdumez ! She even agreed to take a photo with @kellioneil02 and I despite our fangirl enthusiasm.
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"What if we could help the nation cross this color line? We would be called peacemakers - who jesus called God's children" -Dr. Jim Wallis #TheoEdATL
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"It has become a Christian sacred duty to fight and defeat the false gospel of white christian nationalism with the true gospel of Jesus Christ." -Dr. Jim Wallace on crossing the color line at #TheoEdATL
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Our 5th and final speaker at #TheoEdATL is Dr. Jim Wallis, Founding Director of the Center for Faith and Justice at Georgetown University! Highlights coming soon!
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"Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but he was crucified on a cross between two theives." -Rev. Dr. Gary Mason #TheoEdATL
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"The state of our politics reflects the state of our soul." -Rev. Dr. Gary Mason #TheoEdATL
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Rev. Dr. Gary Mason, Methodist Minister and Founder of "Rethinking Conflict" takes the stage to discuss Jesus and Religious Ethnic Nationalism at #TheoEdATL. Highlights to come!
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"If we want to be a hospital for sinners, we're going to have to lead with our vulnerability."
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"Vulnerability is an act of Hospitality... Its not easy to he a space where people share their lives with one another."
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Dr. Jenn Carlier, Winner of theTheoEd Graduate Prize in Public Theology, talks about Finding God in the Basement at #TheoEdATL - Highlights below!
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"Maybe we should interrogate why young people are leaving our churches... Perhaps they have learned to percieve the gap between who we say we are and what we do." -Bishop Wright at #TheoEdATL
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"If you're going to lead, you're going to have to love. If you're going to lead change, you're going to have to love greatly." -The Right Rev. Robert Wright, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, begins his conversation about The Leadership that Love Demands at #TheoEdATL
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"What does obedience look like? Telling the truth and pursuing justice.... Long-term, telling the truth is essential to the witness of the Church... If we tell the truth about our own stories, it may give us some humility." -Dr. Kristen Kobes Du Mez at #TheoEdATL
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Happening now: Dr. Kristen Kobes Du Mez, Author of Jesus and John Wayne, unearths what it means to perform "a religious excavation of our own theological background" in her talk on Confronting Our Histories at #TheoEdATL
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Emory’s Candler School of Theology and First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta invite you to TheoEd Atlanta on Sept. 18 @ 5 PM ET. Five speakers will deliver short, TED-style talks on spirituality and the life of faith. Join in person or online https://t.co/HalQMLc6L5
#TheoEdATL
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“There is something about... being okay when the stories that have been told from churches, especially from majority-White churches... might not be our stories and that’s okay. We need to reclaim and retell our own stories from our own perspective.” - @DrPatrickBReye1
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