Author and historian Ibram X. Kendi will be one of the featured speakers at this year’s National Council of Churches’ Christian Unity Gathering in Hampton, Virginia.
Kendi joins a slate of speakers at the October event that includes Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches; Agnes Abuom, moderator of the World Council of Churches Central Committee; and Mark L. MacDonald, the Anglican Church of Canada’s first National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop.
The theme of this year’s gathering is ending racism, a subject Kendi has written two books about—his most recent being How to Be an Antiracist. —Christian Century staff
This article appears in the September 25, 2019 issue.
