Confronting White Supremacy: Liberation Theology and the North American Context

Across the nation, legislators are working to suppress the crucial insights of critical race theory that name our nation’s history of White supremacy.  At the same time, the tradition of liberation theology pushes the Church to engage history for evidence of social sin and signs of a coming salvation.  Will the Church work to tell the truth about America’s racist history?  Or has the Church itself been infected with the sin of White supremacy?  This lecture and discussion will engage key points of U.S. history that Christians must face in order to transform our institutions with the work of liberation today.

Dr. Hill Fletcher is Professor of Theology at Fordham University, Bronx NY.   She is a constructive theologian working at the intersection of Christian systematic theology and issues of diversity (including gender, race and religious diversity).  She is inspired by her work with the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, an inter-generational, multi-racial, multi-religious group organizing to address social justice issues in New York City and beyond.  Her current research (tentatively titled, Grace of the Ghosts:  A Theology of Institutional Accountability) asks how Church-affiliated colleges and universities can recognize our can be locations for social change.

Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Student Center (Lincoln Park), 314AB
2250 N Sheffield Ave

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