Leading Theologically Lee Hinson-Hasty

Pastoral transitions come with a mixture of grief and joy. Family and colleagues are involved along with church leaders and members, presbytery, and more. How are they done in healthy ways? Come learn with the Rev. Shannon Kershner who recently moved from head of staff at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago, IL to Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, GA.

Rev. Dr. David Loleng has a huge heart and a long record of commitment to congregational thriving. He currently directs Church Financial Literacy and Leadership efforts at the Presbyterian Foundation. This includes the Stewardship Navigator resource as well as the Church Financial Literacy and Leadership Coaching Program.

He deeply believes in God who provides enough, a sufficiency rather than an abundance. He wonders often about what we allocate versus what we accumulate. Join us for this rich and fun conversation during the liminal time between the Reign of Christ Sunday and first Sunday of Advent in a new liturgical year.

Dr. Hanna Reichel’s new book, After Method: Queer Grace, Conceptual Design, and the Possibility of Theology, is called by some the “best book on theological method in a generation.” Reichel brings creativity, rigor, compassion, and creates needed space beyond absolutes.

Conversant in Reformed, Lutheran, queer, and Latin American liberation theologies, Reichel breaks new ground. Don’t’ miss this rich theological conversation!

The Rev. Anthony Jermaine Ross-Allam bridges the academy, pulpit, and social ethics world with his work to repair historic harms. Ross-Allam credits his United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities professor who serves Liberty Community Church PC(USA) in north Minneapolis, the Rev. Dr. Alika Galloway's Womanist witness of just, creative, sacrificial, and faithful parish and community leadership as a way to face the brazen racist inequities the world is facing. Join us for this important and overdue conversation inviting us all to wake up for what God gave us.

Beloved preacher and writer Anna Carter Florence brings winsome insight to an array of characters and stories in the Bible—some celebrated and some overlooked. From courageous Abigail to Zelophehad’s daughters, and from an alabaster jar of ointment to Zacchaeus in the sycamore tree, Florence takes readers on an enchanting tour of the Old and New Testaments with reflections that reveal ancient wisdom and spark imagination anew.

The Rev. Dr. Victor Aloyo was inaugurated as the 11th President of Columbia Seminary in November of 2022 following decades of service at Princeton Seminary. His inauguration theme as Forming Christian Leaders for an Endemic Era.
What can we learn from the ways Columbia is navigating the mire of this endemic era to move closer toward where God is calling us next? How is God’s grace involved? Listen in to this conversation full of laughter and insight.