"Contending with Christian Supersessionism: When Best Intentions Falter" - Christopher Leighton

Sunday, October 22, 2023. In this episode, Christopher Leighton discusses "Contending with Christian Supersessionism: When Best Intentions Falter." Christopher Leighton is the Founding Director of the Institute for Islamic, Christian, Jewish Studies (ICJS) in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to his thirty-three years of inter-religious leadership at the ICJS, he has served as an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University and St. Mary’s Seminary and University. He has published numerous articles and edited Bill Moyer’s resource guide Talking about Genesis (Doubleday 1996) as well as Irreconcilable Differences (Routledge 2001). His latest work, A Sacred Argument: Dispatches from the Christian, Jewish, Muslim Encounter, is forthcoming. He has lectured and conducted seminars in cities around the country. He is a graduate of the Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div.) and is an ordained Presbyterian minister. He has studied extensively at the Baltimore Hebrew University, Yad Vashem, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Columbia University-Teachers College, where he earned his doctorate in Philosophy and Education. Since his retirement, Chris lives with his wife Betsy, and their two dogs in New Harbor, Maine. "Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/