The Black Religious Scholars Group Twenty-Sixth Annual Consultation
Making It Plain: Building A New Way Forward
Honoring Rev. Dr. Leslie Callahan and Rev. Dr. Obery Hendricks
Friday, November 22, 2024
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
The overall theme for this year’s gathering is to build a new way forward given after so much of the rhetoric employed by our institutions and nation concerns the present moment focusing on “after” and “returning” at a time when faith and politics news to chart for a viable future. After—global pandemic, racial reckonings, insurrections and the rise of fascism, increasingly devastating environmental disasters, further restriction of legal rights and protections. Returning—to “new normals,” to the endless production under racial capitalist orders. In truth, whether we use the language of ‘after’ or ‘return’ these are not new conditions that our religious institutions, traditions, and faith communities are facing. As the prophet reminds us, there is nothing new under the sun. This year’s consultation recognizes that while what we face is not new, it is ever urgent. Some of the resources of our faith must be recovered, some must be transformed, and still others left behind in order to support the flourishing of all. We have arranged an enlightening, engaging, and empowering program that your support would enhance.
Honorees
Rev. Dr. Leslie Callahan| Pastor of St. Paul’s Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Obery M. Hendricks , Jr. | Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in the Department of Religion and the Department of African American and African Diasporic Studies
Council of Griots
Dr. Marla F. Frederick | Dean of Harvard Divinity School
Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III | Pastor of Friendship West Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Justin Lester | Pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in Vallejo, California
Dr. Candace Laughinghouse | Theology Professor at Gammon Theological Seminary – Ecowomanist scholar and Director of Worship at Davie Street Presbyterian Church
Rev. Dr. Jacqueline A. Thompson | Pastor of Allen Temple Baptist
Location
Hilton San Diego Bayfront
Indigo D
1 Park Blvd
San Diego, CA 92101