The boundary is the best place for acquiring knowledge.

Paul Tillich, Religiöse Verwirklichung

Wake Forest University School of Divinity will launch the Initiative on Religion, Pluralism, and American Public Life on November 7, 2024. The inaugural program for 2024-2025 will focus on the theme Across the Borders of Tradition: Conversations in Jewish and Christian Thought and Theology. Over the course of the year, the Initiative will feature some of the nation’s leading theologians and scholars of religion examining the intersections of Christian and Jewish thought and theology, new directions in Jewish and African American religious thought and theology, and religion, pluralism, and democratic futures. The 2024-2025 featured speakers include the following:

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Livestream will be available on Nov. 7, 2024 starting at 10 a.m.

2024-2025 Participants

Asher D. Biemann

Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies

University of Virginia

About Asher D. Biemann

Ayelet S. Cohen

Pearl Resnick Dean of The Rabbinical School and Dean of the Division of Religious Leadership

Jewish Theological Seminary

About Ayelet S. Cohen 

Terrence L. Johnson

Charles G. Adams Professor of African American Religious Studies

Harvard University

About Terrence L. Johnson

Amy-Jill Levine

Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies

Hartford International University for Religion and Peace

About Amy-Jill Levine

Janet Soskice

William K. Warren Distinguished Research Professor of Catholic Theology

Duke University

About Janet Soskice

Amanda Tyler

Amanda Tyler

Executive Director

Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty

About Amanda Tyler

Dr. Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities and Director, The Program in African American Studies, poses outside Reynolda Hall on Tuesday, August 24, 2021.

Corey D. B. Walker

Dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity

Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities

Wake Forest University

About Corey D. B. Walker