Past and Present

Online
11 am – 12 pm CT

From the United States to South Africa to Palestine, anti-apartheid movements have mobilized communities to rise up against legal systems of racial injustice and oppression. Join us for a conversation with anti-apartheid activists and liberation theologians Rev. Wendell Griffen, Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak, and Palestinian activist Ms. Shadia Qubti about the contours of apartheid across countries, how anti-apartheid movements can learn from one another, and how we can continue to build international solidarity to hold Israel accountable for its war crimes against the Palestinian people like we do other apartheid regimes.

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Allan Boesak is retired professor of Black Liberation Theology, author of 24 books, most recently Selfless Revolutionaries, Biko, Black Consciousness, Black Theology and a Global Ethic of Solidarity and Resistance; Parables, Politics And Prophetic Faith (with Wendell L Griffen) and The Fire, the River, and the Scorched Earth Between, a 4-Volume work of lectures, essays and sermons. He is a life-long anti-apartheid and human rights activist, and especially active in the struggle for Palestinian justice.

Wendell Griffen is Pastor of New Millennium Church of Little Rock, Arkansas, CEO of Griffen Strategic Consulting, PLLC, a retired Arkansas jurist with a quarter century of experience as a state court appellate and trial judge, co-chair of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, and a frequent commentator about faith, public policy, law, and social justice. He has published three blogs (Wendell Griffen on Cultural Competency, Justice Is A Verb!, and Fierce Prophetic Hope), and currently publishes a SubStack titled Wendell Griffen on Faith, Hope, Love, and Justice. Griffen is author of The Fierce Urgency of Prophetic Hope (Judson Press, 2017), co-author with Allan Aubrey Boesak of Parables, Politics, and Prophetic Faith (Nurturing Faith, 2023).

Shadia Qubti has worked in peacebuilding parachurch organizations in Israel and Palestine for 15 years. As a Palestinian Christian, she is particularly focused on amplifying the voices and perspectives of women and other minorities in various ways, one of which was in the Women Behind the Wall podcast. Her academic work explores the intersections of Palestinian and North American Indigenous understandings of land, as examined in her MA thesis “A Theological Conversation between Palestinian and North American Indigenous Understandings of Land.” This research, alongside her land-based reading “From Displacement to Revelation: A Palestinian Land-based Reading of the Nativity,” reflects her commitment to theological engagement that acknowledges the inseparability of context and positionality from theological interpretation. Shadia is currently the Community Engagement Animator at Trinity Grace United Church in Vancouver, Canada.