Loving our Neighbor in Politically Divisive Times

Loving our Neighbor in Politically Divisive Times: A Post Election Panel

Monday, November 18, 2024, 3:30 PM
Lower Beamer Center, Phelps
421 N. Chase Street, Wheaton

Featuring Elizabeth Neumann, Former Homeland Security Official, Caleb Campbell, Lead Pastor Desert Springs Bible Church, Amy Black, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science at Wheaton College and Vincent Bacote, Ph.D., Professor of Theology and Director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics (CACE) at Wheaton College.

Panelist Bios:

Elizabeth Neumann is a national security expert, violence prevention advocate, and author of the new book Kingdom of Rage: The Rise of Christian Extremism and the Path Back to Peace. She served on White House Homeland Security Council in the George W. Bush Administration, and as the Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism at the Department of Homeland Security during the Trump Administration. She is currently the Chief Strategy Officer for Moonshot — a tech-enabled company supporting governments and community partners to understand and prevent violence. She is also a national security contributor for ABC News.

Pastor Caleb Campbell has served as a pastor at Desert Springs Bible Church in Phoenix, AZ since 2006. He is the founder and director of Disarming Leviathan Ministries (DisarmingLeviathan.com), which equips people to reach Christian Nationalists as a mission field. His book, Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor, was published with InterVarsity Press on July 4, 2024. 

Amy Black, Ph.D. is Professor of Political Science at Wheaton College (IL). She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at M.I.T. A specialist in American Government, her research interests include religion and politics, the Presidency, and Congress. She is a past president of Christians in Political Science and served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in the office of Representative Melissa A. Hart.

Vincent Bacote, Ph.D. is Professor of Theology and Director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics at Wheaton College.  Dr. Vincent Bacote believes that doctrine is central to the life of the church.  Vincent Bacote has published Reckoning with Race and Performing the Good News: In Search of a Better Evangelical Theology (2020), The Political Disciple: A Theology of Public Life (2015), The Spirit in Public Theology: Appropriating the Legacy of Abraham Kuyper (2005), and has contributed to books including On Kuyper (2013), Aliens in the Promised Land (2013), Keep Your Head Up (2012) and Prophetic Evangelicals (2012).

Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the American Values Coalition, the Center for Applied Christian Ethics (CACE) and Politics and International Relations