God Loves Diversity and Justice...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

Today's No Comment item is a seminar, "God Loves Diversity & Justice: Progressive Scholars Speak about Faith, Politics, & the World," at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. Click here to download the poster for the event.

The audience will hear from speakers described as:

"A Human and Feminist from Gaza, Palestine"

"A Jewish Prophet"

"An Exilic Chinese-American"

"A White American Working-Class Feminist"

"A Feminist Muslim Lawyer"

"A Transethnic Korean-American Feminist Theologian"

"A Progressive White Male German-American Theologian"

"An African American Communications Professor"

"A Jewish Russian-American-Israeli Hebrew Bible Scholar"

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