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SUMMARY:The Urgent Need for the Liberation of Everything in 2026 and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Learning Opportunity with United Methodist Theologian Dr. Joerg Rieger\nAbout This Gathering\nLiberation movements have transformed the world for the better\, but in many places\, the pressures against them are only increasing. Liberation theologies\, now more than five decades old\, are being called to evolve. In this keynote and workshop for pastoral leaders\, Dr. Joerg Rieger\, Distinguished Professor of Theology at Vanderbilt University and author of Jesus vs. Caesar: For People Tired of Serving the Wrong God\, brings a working constructive theology\, developed across his published work\, in which questions of anthropology and ecclesiology are never far from the center: What does it mean to be human\, and what is the church for\, in an age that still hasn’t figured out solidarity across lines of labor and class? \nRieger names what isn’t working on either side of the church’s usual divide. The conservative path\, he argues\, is a dead end. But the liberal alternative isn’t automatically the answer\, too often it has settled into a self-congratulatory mode\, content with gestures of inclusion\, especially to marginalized identities\, that stop short of the deeper\, structural transformation those gestures were supposed to represent. Protests that “speak truth to power” without building power\, tables that welcome “marginalized voices” without turning the tables\, “diversity” celebrated without disturbing the system beneath it\, these are the deficient approaches Rieger has spent his career naming. \nThe real question\, he insists\, is how we build solidarity\, genuine\, costly\, cross-class solidarity\, and what it would take for the church itself to be reshaped by that work rather than merely to sponsor it from a comfortable distance. That’s a harder question than either the conservative or the liberal church has been willing to sit with. \nThis day is offered specifically for those who carry pastoral leadership responsibility for leading congregations or other ministries. \n\nRostered Ministers (ELCA) and Pastoral Leaders (UMC) and are invited to this fall convocation gathering featuring United Methodist theologian Dr. Joerg Rieger from Vanderbilt University as our presenter\nCo-sponsored by the Greater Northwest Area of The United Methodist Church and the Northwest Washington Synod\, ELCA\n9-12:30 presentation time\n12:30-1:30 lunch & conversation time\nCost is $50/person\nRegister at: https://nwwasynod.regfox.com/the-urgent-need-for-the-liberation-of-everything\nRegistration questions? Email Susan\nEvent questions? Email David\n\nAbout the Presenter\nDr. Joerg Rieger is Distinguished Professor of Theology and the Cal Turner Chancellor’s Chair in Wesleyan Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School\, and founding director of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt University. Born and educated in Germany before completing his doctoral work in the United States\, he holds an M.Div. from the Theologische Hochschule Reutlingen\, a Th.M. from Duke Divinity School\, and a Ph.D. in religion and ethics from Duke University. An ordained elder in the United Methodist Church\, he spent over two decades on the faculty of Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University before joining Vanderbilt. Rieger is the author or editor of 27 books and more than 200 academic articles on theology\, economics\, and the misuse of power in religion and public life\, including Jesus vs. Caesar: For People Tired of Serving the Wrong God (2018) and Theology in the Capitalocene: Ecology\, Identity\, Class\, and Solidarity (2022). His work has been translated into Portuguese\, Spanish\, Italian\, Croatian\, German\, Malayalam\, Korean\, and Chinese\, and he lectures widely across the Americas\, Africa\, Asia\, and Europe on faith\, solidarity\, and justice. \nCheck out a recent Homebrewed Christianity course with Joerg – where he makes the case that white Christian nationalism isn’t a new problem… https://www.youtube.com/live/u6A2jwfjqfc
URL:https://www.pnwumc.org/event/the-urgent-need-for-the-liberation-of-everything-in-2026-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Edmonds United Methodist Church\, 828 Caspers Street\, Edmonds\, WA\, 98020\, United States
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