University Ministries

Justice and Missions Week  

October 26-28, 2009

Keynote Speakers:

Chris Rice, serves as co-director of the Duke Divinity School Center for Reconciliation. The Center is a major new initiative to advance God's mission of reconciliation through cultivating transformative leaders, communicating wisdom and insights, and connecting in partnership and outreach.  The Center's initiatives include new courses, a Teaching Communities Program, Practitioners in Residence, and an emerging Leadership Training Initiative in the African Great Lakes region of Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, eastern Congo, and Burundi. In 2008, Chris and Emmanuel Katongole published RECONCILING ALL THINGS (Intervarsity Press) which won a Christianity Today Book Award. 

  • Monday at 10:00-10:50am (Neely)
  • Monday at 7:00-8:30pm (Neely)

Social Awareness Fair, an opportunity to meet with local outreach organizations within the Nashville community.

  • Tuesday at 10:00am - noon (Maddox Grand Atrium)

Dr. Andy Watts, joined the Belmont faculty in 2005.  He received his B.A. from Baylor University, M.Div. from Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, Th.M. from Duke University, and Ph.D from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary at Northwestern.  His teaching area is Christian ethics.  His primary focus is on racial reconciliation in America from a Christian perspective.  His approach to fleshing out Christian practices of racial reconciliation draws upon the resources of an odd combination of theological methods.  This, however, does not necessarily mean that Dr. Watts himself is an odd person.   His dissertation engaged post-liberal truth-claiming with liberation theology's emphasis on praxis to come up with some fairly mundane conclusions about racial disadvantage and an American Christian response to it.  He writes about his ideas here and there, or wherever they're allowed.

  • Tuesday at 7:00-8:30pm (Beaman A & B)

David Mahanes, the Chronicle Project, and producer of the award-winning documentary Dear Francis about AIDS in Swaziland.

  • Wednesday at 10:00-10:50am (Leu Center, room 117)
  • Wednesday at 7:00-8:30pm (Neely) (includes screening of Dear Francis)

If you have specific questions about Justice and Missions Week, or about outreach programs at Belmont, contact Micah Weedman, Director of Outreach, at Micah.Weedman@Belmont.edu.