Join us on Saturday, October 5, 2024, at The Festival Center in Washington, D.C., for a one-day seminar with Miguel Escobar, executive director of Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and author of The Unjust Steward: Wealth, Poverty and the Church Today.
Together, we will explore how early church thinkers wrestled with money — and how their thoughts and writing can shape our money decisions today.
Tentative outline – subject to change
9:00 am: Coffee and registration
9:30 am: Liturgy led by Miguel Escobar
10:00 am to 12:00 pm: Reflecting on “Jesus’ Promiscuous Generosity”: An in-depth look at New Testament stories about money
12:00 to 1:00 pm: Lunch on your own in the neighborhood
1:00 to 3:00 pm: Reflecting on Early Church Thinkers: How Basil of Caesarea, Augustine, John Chrysostum and others wrestled with money — and how that shapes our decisions today
3:15 pm: Spanish-language chat with the author to follow (location details TBA)
Jesus’ Promiscuous Generosity will be presented in English with live Spanish translation available.
What: A live, in-person one day seminar on Christianity, wealth and poverty
When: Saturday, October 5, 2024
Where: The Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Road NW, Washington, D.C. 20009
Registration Cost: $100 general admission, $50 nonprofit and ministry workers; $10 student and low-income (Group rates available for 5 or more; contact Mike for details)
Miguel Escobar is director of strategy and operations at Episcopal Divinity School. He is also a writer whose work explores Christianity’s complicated and conflicted relationship with money, wealth, and poverty. His book is The Unjust Steward: Wealth, Poverty, and the Church Today.
Miguel earned a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in 2007 and has served in a variety of roles in the Episcopal Church since. He was communications assistant to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, managing program director for the Episcopal Church Foundation, and now works as director of strategy and operations at Episcopal Divinity School in New York City.
Miguel grew up in the Texas Hill Country and attended Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio where he studied the Roman Catholic social justice tradition, Latin American liberation theologies, and minored in Spanish. He serves on several boards including Episcopal Relief & Development and Forward Movement.