{"id":51935,"date":"2016-09-22T19:24:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T19:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/?p=51935"},"modified":"2025-02-26T16:24:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:24:57","slug":"51935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/2016\/09\/22\/51935\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap of 2016 Christensen Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a0Tuesday, September 20, Jim Wallis, a bestselling author, public theologian, and social activist, led this year&#8217;s Christensen Symposium. Wallis discussed topics from his recent book, <em>America\u2019s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Members of the Carnival de Resistance provided opening music for the convocation. They are a traveling arts carnival and ceremonial theater company, a village demonstration project exploring ecological practices, and an education and social outreach project; all focusing on ecological justice and radical theology.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Auggies discussing the Bridge to a New America with Jim Wallis! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AugsburgCollege\">@AugsburgCollege<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S7XPOznyvh\">pic.twitter.com\/S7XPOznyvh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ACYTI (@AugsburgACYTI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AugsburgACYTI\/status\/778315397229449216\">September 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Following Wallis&#8217;\u00a0address, students Grace Corbin, Winnie Godi, and Nick Stewart-Bloch responded with their own reflections.<\/p>\n<p>Later that day, discussion continued with a community panel,\u00a0&#8220;The Bridge Toward More Just Communities: What Needs to Happen&#8221;.\u00a0The event was moderated by former ELCA Bishop Mark Hanson, and included:\u00a0Pastor Kelly Chatman, Redeemer Lutheran Church, North Minneapolis;\u00a0Nora Barr: Augsburg Alumna;\u00a0Devin Wiggs: Augsburg Student;\u00a0Fardosa Hassan: Muslim Student Advisor to Campus Ministry, and\u00a0a response from Jim Wallis.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to all of the student respondents, panelists, and Augsburg community for engaging in these important conversations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a0Tuesday, September 20, Jim Wallis, a bestselling author, public theologian, and social activist, led this year&#8217;s Christensen Symposium. Wallis discussed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-51935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christensen-symposium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51935"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56667,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51935\/revisions\/56667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}