Emmanuel Katongole

Emmanuel joined the faculty at Duke Divinity School where he brought his experience of growing up in Africa under the brutal regime of Idi Amin, of the genocide in neighboring Rwanda, and of his involvement in the dynamic and rich traditions of the African church. He is the co-director of the Center for Reconciliation and serves as Associate Professor of Theology & World Christianity at Duke Divinity School. He teaches courses on The Face of Jesus in Africa, the Rwanda genocide, politics, violence and theology, and on AIDS and other social challenges.

Emmanuel has published widely in various journals. His latest book is A Future for Africa (Scranton 2005). In his teaching and writing, Emmanuel is concerned not only with the difference Christianity can make in Africa but also with ways of bridging the distance between the West (America) and Africa. He led the Pilgrimage of Pain and Hope to Uganda and Rwanda in 2005 and again in the summer of 2007.

As a priest in the Catholic tradition, Emmanuel has served at various parishes in the United States. He currently attends St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and regularly leads worship at parishes throughout the area. Emmanuel’s family lives in Uganda, where his brother Joseph is also a priest in the Catholic Church.

• Mirror to the Church (Zondervan, 2009)
• Reconciling All Things (InterVarsity Press, 2008)
• A Future for Africa. Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination
  
• Beyond Universal Reason. The Relation between Ethics and Religion in the Work of Stanley Hauerwas (University of Notre Dame Press, 2000)
  
• African Theology Today (University of Scranton Press, 2003)
  
• “Kannungu and the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God in Uganda. A Challenge for Christian Social Imagination” Logos 6/3 (108-143).
  
• “A Different World Right Here. The Church within African Theological Imagination,” Missionalia
  
• “Greeting: Beyond Racial Reconciliation,” in The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics

• “Violence And Christian Social Reconstruction In Africa: On The Resurrection Of The Body” (Politic)
• “The Pattern of This World” (Sojourners)

• “Emmanuel Katongole imagines ‘wild spaces’ in which Christians may pursue God’s reconciliation,” Divinity Magazine
  
• “‘What Does This Mean For My Mother?’ Emmanuel Katongole’s Constant Journey,” Divinity Magazine
• "From Tower-Dwellers to Travelers," Christianity Today

Chris Rice

After attending Middlebury College in Vermont, Chris's life took a dramatic turn when he lived and worked 17 years in an inner-city neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi with Voice of Calvary, an interracial church and Christian community-devlopment ministry. For 12 of those years he lived in an intentional Christian community called Antioch. In 1993, he co-authored More than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel, with his African-American colleague Spencer Perkins.

In 2000, Chris joined Duke Divinity School for mid-career Master of Divinity studies, seeking to understand how (and if) the world of academy and university can be relevant to the world of Christian activism and engagement for social change. In 2002 he published Grace Matters, a memoir of his Mississippi journey, chosen as one of the Best Religion Books of 2002 by Publishers Weekly. In 2004 Chris convened the track on Reconciliation at the 2004 Lausanne Forum on World Evangelization.

Chris has written for Sojourners, Christianity Today, The Christian Century, and other magazines. His life and writing have been concerned with the difference Christianity can make in a divided world, in local places.

Chris's wife Donna is a home health nurse. They have three children. Chris is an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA).

Publications

• Reconciling All Things (InterVarsity Press, 2008)
• Grace Matters: A Memoir of Faith, Friendship, and Hope in the Heart of the South, (Jossey-Bass, 2002)
  
• More than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel, (InterVarsity Press, 1993)

• “What’s Changed? Obama and Race in America” (The Christian Century)

• A Passion for Reconciliation: An interview with Chris Rice, Christian Century, March 8, 2005
  
• ‘Witness for Peace,” Duke Divinity Magazine