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Saturday, November 9, 2024

TheoEd Macon

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Macon, GA & Online

TED-style talks about the Bible, theology and spirituality

Join us for TheoEd Macon on Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 6:00 PM ET! More details will be released as we get closer to the event, stay in the know by signing up to be notified when tickets go live.



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Cole Arthur Riley

Cole Arthur Riley is, more than most things, a writer. Born and for the most part raised in Pittsburgh, Cole studied writing at the University of Pittsburgh, but traces her love of words back to her father, who would bribe her and her siblings to write poems and stories to get out of chores, or for cold hard cash; and her gramma who was part writer, part sage. 


Cole is also the creator of Black Liturgies, a space that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body; and a project of The Center for Dignity and Contemplation where she serves as Curator. 

Scott Mitchell

Scott Mitchell, is a Certified Meditation Teacher with a B.S. in Psychology and studied Addiction Counseling at Mercer University. He is a serial entrepreneur with two businesses in Macon, Georgia: The Bohemian Den and Sweet Eleanor's Divine Desserts. He was the first LGBT Certified Business Enterprise in Macon, GA. He was the 2022 Macon-Bibb Chamber of Commerce Small Business Leader of the Year and was awarded the OUT Georgia Business Alliance 2022 Small Business of the Year. He is a 2021 and 2022 OUT Georgia Business Alliance Business Leader of the Year and Small Business of the Year finalist, the recipient of the 2020 Macon Arts Alliance Cultural Award, the Mentor's Project 2018 Board Member of the Year, and NewTown Macon's 2016 Downtown Ambassador Award.

Rev. Reginald  Sharpe Jr.

The Reverend Reginald Wayne Sharpe Jr., first born child of Reginald Sr. and Fay Phillips-Sharpe, serves as Senior Pastor of the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois. Sharpe is a proud

native of Lithonia, Georgia, and a son of The Greater Travelers Rest Baptist Church ~ The House of Hope Atlanta.


Sharpe earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia (2013), a Master of Theological Studies degree from Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee (2016), and a Master of Theology degree from Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta,

Georgia (2018). Currently, Sharpe is pursuing a Ph.D. in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana.


Reverend Sharpe is one of the proud charter members of the Academy of Preachers and was one of the youngest inducted into The Martin Luther King Jr. Board of Preachers at Morehouse College in 2018. He also taught as an adjunct professor

in the Religion and Philosophy Department at Morehouse College


Sister Theresa Sullivan

Sister Theresa Sullivan is the Director of Daybreak, a project of Depaul USA which provides resources, respite and housing for our brothers and sisters who are homeless. In her 42 years as a Daughter, she has served in many ministries including: Vocation Director for the Daughters of Charity, Executive Director of St. Joseph Services, an outreach program in Chicago’s inner city, Director of Community Health and Mission Integration at Providence Hospital in Southfield. MI. and 11years nursing at Providence Hospital and Allen Memorial in Mobile, Al.


She earned Bachelors of Science in Nursing at Loyola University, a Masters of Management Degree at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, and a Certific


Moshe Szyf

Moshe Szyf is one of the pioneers in the field of epigenetics. Szyf's lab has proposed three decades ago that DNA methylation is a prime therapeutic target in cancer and other diseases and has postulated and provided the first set of evidence that the "social environment" early in life can alter DNA methylation launching the emerging field of "social epigenetics." 


Szyf received his PhD from the Hebrew University and did his postdoctoral fellowship in Genetics at Harvard Medical School, joined the department in 1989 and currently holds a James McGill Professorship and GlaxoSmithKline-CIHR Chair in Pharmacology. He is the founding co-director of the Sackler Institute for Epigenetics and Psychobiology at McGill and is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Experience-based Brain and Biological Development program. 


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