Scholar-Activist Encounter: abby mohaupt and Rick Ufford-Chase
Scholar-Activist EncountersNovember 19, 2020, 7:30pm Eastern Time
How do activism and scholarship contribute to our understanding of Scripture in the world today?
In this session, faith-rooted scholar-activists Rick Ufford-Chase and rev. abby mohaupt will share about their work for environmental and racial justice within the Presbyterian Church USA and beyond.
Advance registration is required.
About the participants
abby mohaupt lives on a farm in Texas. A native of Northern Illinois, she’s an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). abby served urban, suburban, and rural congregations and communities before starting a PhD at Drew University in Religion, Culture, and Ecology. She serves on the boards of enfleshed, CreatureKind, and Presbyterian Peace Fellowship. She is likely to be found with coffee in her hand and a chicken on her lap.
Rick Ufford-Chase is a founding board member of the CLBSJ and the Co-Director of Stony Point Center with his wife Kitty. Though himself a self-described “seminary drop-out,” Rick has had a lifelong fascination with scriptural exegesis and theological inquiry. Rick has been deeply involved in movements for immigration advocacy and systemic economic change, though his recent interests have dealt more specifically with the case for reparations for Native Americans and African Americans. Rick is an outdoorsman, happiest when he is in a canoe on a quiet lake at sunrise. He is the author of Faithful Resistance: Gospel Visions for the Church in a Time of Empire.