The Candler Foundry, the public theological education initiative of Candler School of Theology, will host an online panel discussion series—titled “PUBLICations”—during the fall 2023 semester focused on recent books by Candler faculty and other distinguished scholars. The panels are free and open to the public with registration required. A full listing of the panel discussions is below.

August 22: The Unfinished Search for Common Ground: Reimagining Howard Thurman
7:00–8:00 p.m. ET
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Editor: Dean’s Professor of Spirituality, Ethics, and Leadership Walter Earl Fluker

Panelists:

Luther E. Smith Jr., professor emeritus of church and community
Shively T.J. Smith 06T 15G, assistant professor of New Testament at Boston University School of Theology
Peter Eisenstadt, author, historian, and Thurman scholar

September 12:People Get Ready: Ritual, Solidarity, and Lived Ecclesiology in Catholic Roxbury
7:00–8:00 p.m. ET
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Author: Assistant Professor of Catholic Studies Susan B. Reynolds

Panelists:

Natalia Imperatori-Lee, professor of religious studies at Manhattan College
Eileen Markey, investigative journalist and assistant professor in the department of journalism and media studies at Lehman College
Maureen K. Day, associate professor of religion and society at Franciscan School of Theology at the University of San Diego

October 11: Finding Phoebe: What New Testament Women Were Really Like 
12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
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Author: Almar H. Shatford Professor of New Testament Susan Hylen

Panelists:

Nijay Gupta, professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary
Elizabeth Rogers 18T, connections pastor at Classic City Church in Athens, Georgia
Jaime Clark-Soles, professor of New Testament and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor at Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology

November 9: Mission, Race, and Empire: The Episcopal Church in Global Context
7:00–8:00 p.m. ET
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Co-sponsored by Candler’s Episcopal and Anglican Studies Program.

Author: Jennifer Snow, director of extended learning and associate professor of practical theology at Church Divinity School of the Pacific

Panelists:

Arun Jones, Dan and Lillian Hankey Associate Professor of World Evangelism
Ellen Wondra, research professor emerita of theology and ethics at Bexley Seabury University