Prof. Dana Robert delivers Plenary Address at 2024 New England Annual Conference
William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor Dana Robert delivered the plenary address “Co-Creating Justice and Joy: Decolonizing United Methodist Mission, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” at the 2024 New England Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church on June 20, 2024. Introduced by interim Bishop Peggy A. Johnson, Prof. Robert began her remarks by asking, “Giving the broken world in which we live, how do we hold in tension creative joy and justice in relation to Christian mission?”
The annual conference event was themed “Co-Creating Justice & Joy” and welcomed lay leaders and clergy from around the New England Conference in a hybrid format, with many joining in person and many more online. More coverage from the annual meeting can be found here.
Prof. Robert’s address begins at 2:21:09 in the video below.