On November 10th, Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy Emerita at Duke University, visited the Yale Center on Public Theology & Public Policy to speak on a panel, “Theology and Resistance: What History Teaches Us”. She joined Bishop William Barber II and legal scholar John Witt to discuss how clergy have worked along others in public life to develop a resistance to authoritarianism, through the context of the Southern freedom movement’s response to the KKK and the story of the early 20th century’s Radical Fund.
The symposium, “Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism”, explored the ethical possibilities of religion in today’s world, amidst politicization of religious communities, the deepening of moral and cultural divides, and rising authoritarianism globally.
Read more here: Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism: A Clergy Symposium