Accounting for Reconciliation
Whitney Wilkinson Arreche

In this TheoEd Offstage talk, Rev. Dr. Whitney Wilkinson Arreche explores the connections between reconciliation language, accounting, and theology, and invites consideration into how reconciliation has been a wounding word in the rhetoric of race relations within United States Christianity.

Rev. Dr. Whitney Wilkinson Arreche (she/her) is a recent Doctor of Theology graduate of Duke University, where she researched the connections between language, wealth, whiteness, and reconciliation theologies. She was awarded the 2022-2023 Fellowship for Protestant Ethics, working as part of a cohort of early-career Protestant theologians and ethicists. She chairs her denominational General Assembly Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations, leading in work to fight antisemitism and Islamophobia. She represents the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) on the National Council of Churches Faith and Order Committee, engaging in matters of ecumenical engagement, race, and theology. She has served on the leadership team of Liberating Church, a project that draws wisdom from the antebellum hush harbors of enslaved people to celebrate and seek wisdom from a Christianity often overlooked in the history of the United States. This resulted in a book project entitled Liberating Church: A 21st Century Hush Harbor Manifesto, through Wipf & Stock Publishers. She has presented her research at national and international religion conferences, and has been published in The Christian Century, Political Theology Network, and the Presbyterian Outlook. She has contributed an entry on Coronavirus for the updated edition of the T&T Clark Theological Dictionary. She is a scholar, a writer, a seeker, and a teacher, but mostly, she is a pastor with a heart for deep connection, deep thinking, and deep care of all of God’s children. She lives and pastors in Texas. Her website is whitneywilkinsonarreche.com.



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