Karen P. Oliveto was consecrated as a bishop of The United Methodist Church on July 16, 2016 in Scottsdale, Ariz., and assigned for the 2016-2020 quadrennium to the Mountain Sky Episcopal Area, which includes the Rocky Mountain, and Yellowstone annual (regional) conferences. It includes 400 congregations in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and a small section of Idaho. Bishop Oliveto was elected to the episcopacy after serving as the first woman pastor of the 12,000-member Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco, Calif. She is the first woman to serve as senior pastor of one of The United Methodist Church’s 100 largest congregations. She served Glide from 2008 until her election as bishop. She and her wife, Robin Ridenour, a nurse anesthetist and United Methodist deaconess, were married in 2014.
Boston University School of Theology Community Center
Bernard McGinn
Boston College - Devlin 101
Krista Tippett
Boston College - Gasson 100
Mark Shriver, J. Bryan Hehir, Margery Eagan
John F. Kennedy Library
Dianne Glave, Coordinator of Diversity Development with the Western Pennsylvania United Methodist Church Conference Center, will begin the discussion and Rev. Dr. Kapya John Kaoma (STH '10) will be her discussion partner. Dianne Glave completed her M.Div. at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. After completing her degree, she served as a local pastor at Crafton United Methodist Church and Ingomar Church in the Western Pennsylvania United Methodist Church Conference Center (WPAUMC). Rev. Glave recently joined the staff of the WPAUMC as the Coordinator of Diversity Development. Dr. Glave's background, an M.A. and Ph.D. in History with an emphasis on African American and environmental history and experience as a professor in African American Studies and Ethnic Studies, serves as a foundation for her current position. Her publications include Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage and To Love the Wind and the Rain: African American Environmental History, a co-edited volume with Mark Stoll. Kapya John Kaoma (STH '10) is a scholar, pastor, and activist for international human rights.
Boston University School of Theology Community Center
Dai Sil Kim-Gibson and Hee-Soo Jung
Boston University Sherman Union Auditorium
Emily Jendzejec (Pastoral Minister for Young Adults at the Paulist Center) Christopher Raiche (former Buddhist monk, Values in Action Intern at the Humanist Community at Harvard University) Chris Stedman (Executive Director of Yale University Humanist Community and author of Faitheist) Moderator: Rev. Amy Fisher (Suffolk University Chaplain)
Main Function Room, Sargent Hall
Don Messer, William Bobby McClain, and Pamela Lightsey
Boston University School of Theology Community Center
Cornell William Brooks, President and CEO of the NAACP
Boston University Marsh Chapel
Dr. Caroline Hall
Boston University School of Theology Community Center
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