About the Conference
A Call to Reckoning, Healing, Reimagining
The WSCF-US Student Leadership Team called Christian students, young adults, chaplains, and ecumenical leaders to join together across campuses, denominations and national boundaries for a time of worship, prayer, Bible study, social analysis, conversation, and strategic planning to reckon with the moral injustices of our time, including poverty, white supremacy, empire, and ecological devastation; to build community for the journey together toward healing; and to reimagine a new world, a new heaven and earth, and explore our role in bringing about that vision.
Theme: A New Heaven and New Earth
Our conference theme, "A New Heaven and New Earth," comes from Revelation 21:1, "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more." Indian author Arundhati Roy has suggested that this time of intersecting global pandemics might be a portal, a gateway between one world and the next, if we are ready to fight for it.
WSCF-US Vision
The World Student Christian Federation-US, part of a global network of over 100 student movements around the world, is organizing a movement of Christian students in the US who will live out their faith in this pivotal moment, this Kairos time, through a community that is radically inclusive, globally engaged, and grounded in prophetic Biblical and theological traditions.
Special Guests:
The WSCF-US Student Leadership Team called Christian students, young adults, chaplains, and ecumenical leaders to join together across campuses, denominations and national boundaries for a time of worship, prayer, Bible study, social analysis, conversation, and strategic planning to reckon with the moral injustices of our time, including poverty, white supremacy, empire, and ecological devastation; to build community for the journey together toward healing; and to reimagine a new world, a new heaven and earth, and explore our role in bringing about that vision.
Theme: A New Heaven and New Earth
Our conference theme, "A New Heaven and New Earth," comes from Revelation 21:1, "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more." Indian author Arundhati Roy has suggested that this time of intersecting global pandemics might be a portal, a gateway between one world and the next, if we are ready to fight for it.
WSCF-US Vision
The World Student Christian Federation-US, part of a global network of over 100 student movements around the world, is organizing a movement of Christian students in the US who will live out their faith in this pivotal moment, this Kairos time, through a community that is radically inclusive, globally engaged, and grounded in prophetic Biblical and theological traditions.
Special Guests:
- Rev. William Barber, Co-Chair of Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
- Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney, Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School
- Rev. Dr. Jin S. Kim, Pastor, Church of All Nations and Founder of Underground Seminary
- Dr. Sarosh Koshy, Author, Beyond Missio Dei: Contesting Mission, Rethinking Witness
- Rev. Erica Williams, National Organizer, Poor People’s Campaign
- Rev. Dr. Savina Martin, Tri Chair, Massachusetts Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
- Laura Newby, Pedagogue & Catalyst of Underground Seminary
- Nordia Bennett, Program Coordinator, Center for Anti-Violence Education
- Nyya Flores Toussaint, Community Justice Leader
- The Many