Written by Dr. Jeremy Myers, Executive Director of Augsburg’s Christensen Center for Vocation
On Tuesday Oct 5, 2021,聽Dr. Brian Bantum gave a lecture entitled 鈥淎ll Things are New: The Language of Our Life in the Face of Empire鈥� at our 2021 Bernhard M. Christensen Symposium. Dr. Bantum is the Neil F. And Ila A. Fisher Professor of Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Chicago, IL. He writes, speaks, and teaches on identity, racial imagination, creating spaces of justice, and the intersection of theology and embodiment for audiences around the United States.
He is a contributing editor of The Christian Century and is the author of 鈥淩edeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity,鈥� 鈥淭he Death of Race: Building a New Christianity in a Racial聽 World,鈥澛� and聽 鈥淐hoosing Us: Marriage and Mutual Flourishing in a World of Difference,鈥� which he co-authored with his spouse, Gail Song Bantum. You can view a .