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Unlike a lecture where a professor speaks to students, a salon is a peer-to-peer exchange of ideas. Even if you fundamentally disagree with someone you must do so with wit and grace, not anger. This salon will focus on the rise of religious nationalism as a global phenomenon. What is it? Where is it? Who is it? Why is it?

The facilitators of this salon will be:

Barry E. Bryant is the Associate Professor of United Methodist Wesleyan Studies. He has taught “Race: America’s True Religion” and has led student groups to the Occupied Palestinian Territory of the West Bank.
Paula Roderick, is an attorney focusing on Employment Discrimination and Civil Rights Attorney; a member of Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Black 4 Palestine, the Steering Committee for UM Kairos Response.

The Rev. Neal Christie is a consultant to the United Methodist, Wespath Benefits around issues of divestment; the cofounder of The Religious Nationalisms Project, a ministry of the New York State Council of Churches; and, a 2025-26 Civil Society Fellow with the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies