Quaker Scholar Ann Riggs to Speak Feb. 18
Friends Center will present two talks by Ann Riggs, the Associate General Secretary for Faith & Order with the National Council of Churches USA.
Riggs will speak at the weekly College Meeting for Worship on Sunday, Feb. 17 at 1 p.m. in the Moon Room, located in Dana Auditorium. She will also give a lecture titled “Quaker Faith in Ecumenical Perspective” on Monday, Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m. at New Garden Friends Meeting.
Riggs has represented the Friends General Conference of the Religious Society of Friends on the NCC’s Faith & Order Commission since 1997. For five years, she served the U.S. Roman Catholic Bishops in their ecumenical work with historically black and peace churches.
She is a member of the Catholic Theological Society of America, American Academy of Religion and North American Academy of Ecumenists, and is a founder and associate editor of the journal Quaker Theology. She also co-wrote (with Jeffrey Gros and Eamon McManus) Introduction to Ecumenism and co-edited (with Fernando Enns and Scott Holland) Peace-Theology and Culture in a Globalized World from the Perspective of the Historic Peace Churches,
Riggs is this year’s Judith Weller Harvey Quaker Scholar, part of Friends Center’s annual speakers series. For more information, call 336-316-2445.
Friends Center is a collaborative endeavor of the College and the Religious Society of Friends to strengthen Friends and their institutions.
Feb. 18, 2008