We are pleased to announce our panelists and registration link for Quaker Theological Discussion Group 2023! These panel discussions will be held via Zoom on December 1–2, 2023 at 8–10am PST / 11am–1pm EST / 4–6pm GMT (find the time in your time zone). These events are free! Please consider contributing to our fundraiser to raise $500 for Spanish interpreters.
The theme for QTDG 2023 is “Tradition & Transformation: Quakerism 400 Years After the Birth of George Fox.” This will be part of a year-long conversation and celebration organized by Friends World Committee of Consultation, with events all over the world recognizing George Fox’s 400th birthday.
- Panel 1, Dec 1: Reconsidering Fox’s Rejection of Rituals
Panelists: Alice Elliott-Sowaal and Diego Navarro, Barbara Birch, George Busolo Lukalo, Welling Hall- “Why We Need to Return to Practices that Can Move Us Beyond Inadvertent Somatic Individualism,” Alice Elliott-Sowaal and Diego Navarro
- “Throwing out the Baby,” Barbara Birch
- “Worship Tradition and Transformation Among Kenyan Friends,” George Busolo Lukalo
- “Insights into Quaker Silence from Otto, Thurman, and Panikkar,” Welling Hall
- Panel 2: Dec 2: A Great People Gathered? Quakers in Global Context
Panelists: Emma Condori Mamani, Mark Russ, Rhiannon Grant, Robert J. Wafula- “Bolivian Indigenous Quakerism,” Emma Condori Mamani
- “Whiteness and the Roots of the Quaker Universalist Discourse,” Mark Russ
- “Theological Diversity as Growth and Foundation,” Rhiannon Grant
- “New forms of orientation for the 21 century Africa Quaker movement,” Robert J. Wafula
- Business meeting, Dec 2: 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
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