Announcing our panelists for the Quaker Theological Discussion Group panels that will be on Zoom on December 13–14, 2024, 8–10am PST / 11am–1pm EST / 4–6pm GMT / 7–9pm Eastern African Time. Register here.

Topic: Imagining Just Economies: Quaker Approaches to Divestment and the Kin-dom of God

Panel 1: Dec. 13, 2024, 8–10am PST / 11am–1pm EST / 4–6pm GMT
Welling Hall: Economies Imagined in the Work of Havel, Boulding, and Brueggemann
Stuart Smith: The Abolition That Could Have Been: The Free Produce Movement and the Loss of Momentum in Ending Chattel Slavery in America, 1800-1860
Jim Fussell: The World Shaking Power of “Holy Obedience”: Radical U.S. Quakers Divesting from Nuclear Arms, McCarthyism, and Racial Segregation, 1946-1956
Lisa Graustein:  Reparative Actions as a Guide for Stewarding Wealth

Panel 2:  Dec. 14, 2024, 8–10am PST / 11am–1pm EST / 4–6pm GMT
Pamela Haines: Applying our Faith Values to Economics
Mary Watkins: Learning from the Demands and Visions of Black-Led Grassroots Reparations Campaigns 
Lina Blount:  Collective Witness and Interdependence in Dialogue with Individual Piety and Consumerism in Fossil Fuel Divestment
Cherice Harrison-Nelson and St. Clair Allmond, accompanied by Nathan Shroyer: Intraparticularity

Business meeting, Dec 14: If you can, stay after the panel on Saturday to learn more about Quaker Theological Discussion Group and Quaker Religious Thought, and help us brainstorm topic ideas for next year.