Essential Conversations: The Sin of Christian Nationalism

Start: 2024-10-15 18:00:00 UTC Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)

End: 2024-10-15 20:00:00 UTC Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)

This is a virtual event

What is Christian nationalism, and why is it more important than ever for our communities of faith to engage in conversations about it? Join a distinguished panel of scholars and bishops for a webinar to discuss Christian nationalism and learn why the House of Bishops Theology Committee of The Episcopal Church has called it “the gravest and most dangerous sin of today.” The webinar will also mark the publication of the new book The Crisis of Christian Nationalism: Report from the House of Bishops Theology Committee by Church Publishing Incorporated.

Panelists include:

The Very Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas – Dr. Douglas is Visiting Professor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School. She previously served as the Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, where she held the Bill and Judith Moyers Chair of Theology.

The Rt. Rev. Matthew F. Heyd – Bishop Heyd is the seventeenth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Prior to his episcopal consecration, he served for ten years as the tenth rector of the Church of Heavenly Rest in New York City.  

The Rt. Rev. Allen K. Shin – Bishop Shin is the Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. He serves as the chair of the House of Bishops Theology Committee of The Episcopal Church and is the co-editor of The Crisis of Christian Nationalism.  


The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis – Dr. Theoharis is the Executive Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice. She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and teaches at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.


Moderator:

The Rev. Dr. Patrick S. Cheng – Dr. Cheng is Visiting Professor of Anglican Studies at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. He is an Episcopal priest and serves as the co-convener of the Bishop’s Advisory Theology Committee in the Episcopal Diocese of New York.

* This event is sponsored by: Church Publishing Incorporated and the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice

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