Decolonial Religious Leadership: Unraveling and Reweaving the Garment of Destiny
Rev. Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi, Ph.D.
Friday, November 8th, 2024, 11 am – 1:30 pm Central
Cost: Free
Registration closes: November 7, 2024
Hosted by The Leadership Institute for Growth, Healing, and Transformation (LIGHT) at Meadville Lombard Theological School, and the Global Connections & Emerging Communities Office of the Unitarian Universalist Association.
Join us for an exciting, interactive lecture and discussion with Rev. Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi, Ph.D. (she/her/ella). She is Associate Professor of Leadership and Formation and Faculty Director of the Office of Professional Formation at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado, and the author of Unraveling Religious Leadership: Power, Authority, and Decoloniality (click on the book title to learn more about it and find a discount code).
In his well-known "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.” Our single garment of destiny is woven through and through with threads of history that shape our faith leadership. How have the threads of colonialism impacted the normative forms of our religious leadership and how might we reweave our leadership when we start to pull the threads?
In this engaging and interactive lecture and discussion, Rev. Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi, Ph.D., will guide us through the forms and functions of leadership within religious institutions that remain intertwined with colonialism and its legacies in myriad ways. This presentation will examine some of the more enduring “threads” of colonialism within religious leadership through the themes of individualism, expertise, and change, with movement toward reweaving frameworks for embodying leadership beyond imperial norms and supremacies.
Don't miss this opportunity as we continue our journey of becoming a post-imperial faith!
