The first Matthew 25 Summit with the Presbyterian Church USA was held January 16-18, 2024 at New Life Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, GA. Rev Dr Liz Theoharis gave the keynote.

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A special discussion in honor of Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

What it means to honor Dr King by continuing his work of building a multiracial, interfaith, movement to end poverty and its interlocking injustices. We are be joined by Dr. Colleen Wessel-McCoy and Dr. Tejai Beulah Howard. Tony Eskidge is our moderator.

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Featuring The Very Reverend Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas and Rev. Dr. Gabriella Lettini. The conversation was moderated by Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis.

Delores S. Williams was a trailblazer and a founder of womanist theology. Over her life, she wrote several essays, articles, and book chapters that helped establish womanist theology, which she defined in Sisters in the Wilderness as theology that takes the “faith, thought, and struggle of Black women seriously as a ‘primary theological source.’” She earned a doctorate from Union Theological Seminary in 1991, where she later became the first Black woman to hold a named chair at the school as the Tillich professor of theology and culture.

Williams wrote that womanist theology joined Black male liberation theology in its call for the freedom of all human beings and joined white feminist theology in its assertion of women’s dignity. Womanism critiqued white racist oppression, but it also identified and critiqued Black male oppression of Black females, and white feminist theology’s “participation in the perpetuation of white supremacy,”

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