“Our greatest challenge in this world today is not that we lack the resources, not that we lack the funding, but we lack the imagination to imagine a new world.” - Otis Moss III Listen to Rev. Dr. Moss's talk on the TheoEd podcast, out now! @om3

“There is something about... being okay when the stories that have been told from churches, especially from majority-White churches... might not be our stories and that’s okay. We need to reclaim and retell our own stories from our own perspective.” - Dr. Patrick B. Reyes

Emory’s Candler School of Theology and First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta invite you to TheoEd Atlanta on Sept. 18 @ 5 PM ET. Five speakers will deliver short, TED-style talks on spirituality and the life of faith. Join in person or online theoed.com/attend #TheoEdATL

Happening now: Dr. Kristen Kobes Du Mez, Author of Jesus and John Wayne, unearths what it means to perform "a religious excavation of our own theological background" in her talk on Confronting Our Histories at #TheoEdATL

"What does obedience look like? Telling the truth and pursuing justice.... Long-term, telling the truth is essential to the witness of the Church... If we tell the truth about our own stories, it may give us some humility." -Dr. Kristen Kobes Du Mez at #TheoEdATL

"If you're going to lead, you're going to have to love. If you're going to lead change, you're going to have to love greatly." -The Right Rev. Robert Wright, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, begins his conversation about The Leadership that Love Demands at #TheoEdATL

"Maybe we should interrogate why young people are leaving our churches... Perhaps they have learned to percieve the gap between who we say we are and what we do." -Bishop Wright at #TheoEdATL

Dr. Jenn Carlier, Winner of theTheoEd Graduate Prize in Public Theology, talks about Finding God in the Basement at #TheoEdATL - Highlights below!

"Vulnerability is an act of Hospitality... Its not easy to he a space where people share their lives with one another."

"If we want to be a hospital for sinners, we're going to have to lead with our vulnerability."

Rev. Dr. Gary Mason, Methodist Minister and Founder of "Rethinking Conflict" takes the stage to discuss Jesus and Religious Ethnic Nationalism at #TheoEdATL. Highlights to come!

"The state of our politics reflects the state of our soul." -Rev. Dr. Gary Mason #TheoEdATL

"Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but he was crucified on a cross between two theives." -Rev. Dr. Gary Mason #TheoEdATL

Our 5th and final speaker at #TheoEdATL is Dr. Jim Wallis, Founding Director of the Center for Faith and Justice at Georgetown University! Highlights coming soon!

"It has become a Christian sacred duty to fight and defeat the false gospel of white christian nationalism with the true gospel of Jesus Christ." -Dr. Jim Wallace on crossing the color line at #TheoEdATL

"What if we could help the nation cross this color line? We would be called peacemakers - who jesus called God's children" -Dr. Jim Wallis #TheoEdATL

At today’s TheoEd talk hosted by The Candler Foundry, I got to meet one of my favorite Truth Tellers, Kristin Du Mez ! She even agreed to take a photo with Kelli O’Neil and I despite our fangirl enthusiasm.

"You don't want a perfect tortilla. You want many good tortillas." - on how tortillas are like biblical interpretation Chauncey Diego Handy

"If it's not good news for the oppressed, it's not Jesus's good news." - @lisasharper

That concludes TheoEd Austin! Stay tuned for recordings of tonight's talks and more resources like discussion guides, and follow our speakers to hear more from them: @lisasharper, John Pavlovitz, Kara Powell, Austin Seminary president José Irizarry, & Chauncey Diego Handy