Free and open to the public. All individuals attending indoor events at Hope College are required to wear a facemask regardless of vaccination status. The event can also be watched via livestream at hope.edu/live or on the Hope College YouTube Channel (youtube.com/hopecollege).

What is race? What counts as racism? How widespread is racism in America? At Hope College? In our hearts? And how should Christians think about these questions? Join President Scogin as he moderates a conversation between two Hope College professors on one of our most contentious issues.

This event is sponsored by Hope College’s Office of the President and co-sponsored by the Saint Benedict Institute, along with Hope College’s departments of Philosophy and Psychology.

Dr. Matt Jantzen is the faculty director of the Emmaus Scholars Program a living-learning community on campus that combines the practices of intentional Christian community with academic and practical explorations of the relationship between faith and justice in contemporary global society. He teaches coursework in the areas of Christian theology and ethics, and his research explores the relationship between Christian theology, politics and race in the modern world. He is the author of “God, Race, and History: Liberating Providence” (Lexington Books, 2021), which explores the relationship between the doctrine of providence and race in modern Protestant theology.

Dr. Kevin Kambo is an expert in the history of philosophy, with particular interest in moral psychology in the classical and patristic eras. His recent work focuses on Plato and Augustine of Hippo, as well as with bringing ancient sources to bear in contemporary debates on the natures and roles of technology and liberal education in human life. He is presently working on a project on Plato’s “Phaedo” on the various meanings of death and how the practice of philosophy is a preparation for facing one’s demise. His courses have included Ancient Philosophy, The Invention of Mercy, Wrath and Its Ruins, Philosophy of Technology, and the senior philosophy capstone course Love and Fear in Plato. He coordinates the department’s speaker series and is also the faculty mentor of the student literary club The Order of the Broken Table.

Panelists

Dr. Matt Jantzen

Dr. Kevin Kambo

Moderator

Matthew A. Scogin