Apr 18, 2023
SPU's John Perkins Center is hosting Dr. Jemar Tisby and Rev. Dominique Gilliard for the 2023 Perkins Lecture series.
Tisby speaks nationwide on topics of racial justice, U.S. history, and Christianity. He is the author of The New York Times’ bestseller, The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism and How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey toward Racial Justice.
Gilliard is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, and he was named Outreach magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. His latest book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege, won Englewood Review of Books 2021 Book of the Year Award.