Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management for an Economy of Life (GEM School) online 2020 opening panel "Economy of Life in a time of inequality, pandemic and climate change".

This webinar aims to help equip participants on all levels with theological and ethical perspectives to engage society as they respond to the current economic crisis in a time of inequality, pandemic and climate change.

When: 19 August 2020, 15h00-16h30 (CEST)

Speakers:

Dr Cynthia Moe_Loebeda (USA) teaches social and theological ethics at the Pacific Lutheran University and has lectured extensively on climate justice as related to race and class, economic globalization, moral agency and hope, public church, and faith-based resistance to systemic injustice. She authored the books, Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocationand Healing a Broken World: Globalization and God, as well as numerous articles. A member of the Ecumenical Panel on a New International Financial and Economic Architecture (NIFEA), she obtained her Ph.D. in Christian Ethics from the Union Theological Seminary in the USA.

Rev Dr Allan Aubrey Boesak (South Africa) is liberation theologian and anti-apartheid activist. He studied at the University of Western Cape and received his doctorate in theology from the Protestant Theological University in Kampen, the Netherlands. Boesak is known for his book, Farewell to Innocence, and for his work against racial apartheid in the 1980s in South Africa. He has served South African churches and the worldwide ecumenical movement including as president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (now known as World Communion of Reformed Churches). He was theologian-in-residence at the International Institute for the Study of Race, Reconciliation, and Social Justice; Extraordinary Professor of Public Theology at Stellenbosch University; and honorary professor of humanities at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Register in advance for this webinar:
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