Jun 29, 2015
Dr. Marcia Y. Riggs is the J. Erskine Love
Professor of Christian Ethics at Columbia Theological Seminary.
This episode, Dr. Riggs joins the podcast to discuss helpful ways
that people of faith can process and respond in the wake of the
massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in
Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Riggs is interested in the
relationship between social oppression and socio-religious ethical
praxis, ethical discourse that bridges the gap between womanist
religious scholarship and the church`s practice of ministry, the
moral foundations for public policy, and the church's role in
social justice ministry. She is the Founder of an applied ethics
non-profit center called Still Waters: A Center for Ethical
Formation and Practices, Inc. Still Waters' mission is to provide
education in conflict transformation theory and practices,
particularly focusing upon the intersection of religion and
violence.