8:30

Land Acknowledgement, Introductions and Overview

Introduction by Rick Lowery

Introduction by April Johnson

Welcome and Land Acknowledgement by Nancy Pittman

8:50

Setting the Table by Sandhya Jha

9:15

A Conversation About Campbell and Stone

Charisse Gillett, Moderator

Doug Foster and Newell Williams

10:00

Break

10:15

Disciples/Christians and Indigenous Nations

Nancy Pittman, Moderator

Joshua Shawnee: Not of This Fold: Exploring the Historical Complexities of
Native Identity within a Contemporary North American Christian Context

Lisa Barnett: Disciples and the 'F' Word: How our Focus on The Significance of
the Frontier Causes Us to Lose Sight of our Legacy of Conquest

David Bell: One Hundred Years of Solicitude: A Movements Disfiguring of American Indigeneity

12:15

Lunch

1:15

Stories of Resistance and New Possibility

Leah Gunning Francis, Moderator

Edward Robinson: Preston Taylor

Yvonne Gilmore: Sarah Lou Bostick

2:45

Break

3:00

Tim Lee: Before and After 1978: Two Streams in the History of North American Pacific/Asian American Disciples

Lori Tapia: Hispanic/Latinx Disciples History and Experience: Obra Hispana

4:30

Break

4:45

Theoretical Considerations and Implications

James Gorman, Moderator

Santiago Piñon: “Difference and Diversity”

Lawrence Burnley: Reflections on Education in and beyond the Church through an Anti-Racist Lens: Toward an Epistemology of Inclusion and Reconciliation

6:15

Evening banquet (President’s Fund Launch)

8:00

William Barber : Keynote Sermon

9:45

Prayers of Remembrance and Conviction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYg6amxCLZQ&t=630

Participants are invited to visit the John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park prior to Saturday’s session.

10:00

Panel Discussion: What now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYg6amxCLZQ&t=3715

Conference Speakers and Audience

Noon:

Frank Thomas Sermon

Terri Hord Owens: Concluding Thoughts and Call to Action

1:30

Departures