Teaching from and for the Margins in These Troubled Times: SRER Conf

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Third Biennial Conference of The Society of Race, Ethnicity and Religion (SRER) will be held at Vanderbilt Divinity School Oct 27-29, 2017.

Please register here today.

Plenary Speakers: Drs. Emilie Townes, Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Laura Livett, David Kyuman Kim

Samuel L. Caraballo: Divine Challenge to Social Darwinism

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I am reposting Samuel L. Caraballo’s very interesting post.  it was originally posted on his site, samuelcaraballo.com site.  Feel free to follow his blog.

“What then must we do?” This is the inevitable question faith communities across the nation face when dealing with racial and ethnic divides within their congregations and in society at large.

If it is true scientifically that there is no such thing as racial superiority, then we

SRER Inaugural Meeting

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The first inaugural meeting for the “Society of Race Ethnicity and Religion” took place April 26-28, 2013 at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and McCormick Theological Seminary.

We had a large gathering of graduate students, professors, scholars and activists who attended, participated and contributed to this inaugural meeting.