Betsey Stockton Center for Black Church Studies
Plenty Good Room
Reimagining Economic Justice in Our Communities
Featuring Rev. Andrew Wilkes, Ph.D
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 • 6:30–8:00PM ET • Hybrid Event
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Plenty Good Room:
Reimagining Economic Justice in Our Communities
Join us for a transformative event as we explore the themes of Plenty Good Room: Co-Creating an Economy of Enough for All by Andrew Wilkes. This discussion will delve into the possibilities of building a society where everyone has access to what they need. We'll examine how economic justice can be reimagined through a lens of abundance rather than scarcity and how communities can work together to create a more equitable future. The event will offer a thought-provoking conversation with a leading voice at the intersection of economic justice, the Christian faith, and the community at this critical moment in our history. Participants will gain insights into how they can contribute to co-creating an economy that prioritizes fairness, inclusion, and sustainability for all. Whether you are an activist, a faith leader, or someone passionate about social justice, this event will provide you with the tools and inspiration to make a tangible difference in your community. Let’s come together to envision our tomorrow together.
Speaker
Rev. Andrew Wilkes, Ph.D, is a political scientist, the co-founding, co-pastor of the Double Love Experience Church in Brooklyn and the former executive director of the Drum Major Institute. He is the coauthor, with spouse Rev. Dr. Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes, of Psalms for Black Lives and the author of Freedom Notes: Reflections on Faith, Justice, and the Possibility of Democracy. Rev. Dr. Wilkes is the author of Plenty Good Room: Co-Creating an Economy of Enough for All, published in 2024 by Broadleaf Books . His work and voice have appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, and Sojourners, among other outlets. He serves on boards for the Labor-Religion Coalition of New York, The Black Mountain School of Theology and Community, and the Institute for Christian Socialism. A graduate of Hampton University, Princeton Theological Seminary ’10, and the Coro Foundation’s Fellowship in Public Affairs, Rev. Dr. Wilkes completed his PhD in political science at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Rev. Andrew Wilkes, Ph.D, is a political scientist, the co-founding, co-pastor of the Double Love Experience Church in Brooklyn and the former executive director of the Drum Major Institute. He is the coauthor, with spouse Rev. Dr. Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes, of Psalms for Black Lives and the author of Freedom Notes: Reflections on Faith, Justice, and the Possibility of Democracy. Rev. Dr. Wilkes is the author of Plenty Good Room: Co-Creating an Economy of Enough for All, published in 2024 by Broadleaf Books . His work and voice have appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, and Sojourners, among other outlets. He serves on boards for the Labor-Religion Coalition of New York, The Black Mountain School of Theology and Community, and the Institute for Christian Socialism. A graduate of Hampton University, Princeton Theological Seminary ’10, and the Coro Foundation’s Fellowship in Public Affairs, Rev. Dr. Wilkes completed his PhD in political science at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Host
Rev. Dr. David G. Latimore serves as the Director for the Betsey Stockton Center for Black Church Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary. The Betsey Stockton Center brings the exceptional strengths and resources of the seminary to support the prophetic and social justice traditions of the black church. The Center also serves to advance, and be transformed by, theological education that develops and nurtures current and future leaders of black religious institutions and to be a national leader in creating knowledge that addresses, in new and innovative ways, the theological and praxiological issues confronting the communities and constituencies served by the black church.
Rev. Dr. Latimore has over twenty years of pastoral experience. He most recently served as the sixth Senior Pastor of the Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee. He has also served as Senior Pastor at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Joliet, IL), the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church (Gainesville, FL), the Southern Union Baptist Church (St. Louis, MO), and has also served the First Calvary Baptist Church (Durham, NC) as Senior Associate Minister. Rev. Dr. Latimore was licensed into ministry by Bishop Paul S. Morton at Greater St. Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church (New Orleans, LA).
Rev. Dr. David G. Latimore serves as the Director for the Betsey Stockton Center for Black Church Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary. The Betsey Stockton Center brings the exceptional strengths and resources of the seminary to support the prophetic and social justice traditions of the black church. The Center also serves to advance, and be transformed by, theological education that develops and nurtures current and future leaders of black religious institutions and to be a national leader in creating knowledge that addresses, in new and innovative ways, the theological and praxiological issues confronting the communities and constituencies served by the black church.
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Location: Theron Room, Theodore Sedgwick Wright Library
Betsey Stockton Center for Black Church Studies
The Betsey Stockton Center for Black Church Studies exists to highlight the theological and religious witness, which arises out of the African American and African Diaspora Christian experience. The Center helps to prepare men and women for vocational ministry or scholarly pursuits shaped by a wider knowledge and deeper appreciation of Black life within American and global Christianity.
The Betsey Stockton Center aspires to be a national leader in research on the Black church through the collaborative creation of scholarship with leading scholars, community leaders, and pastors to address the critical issues confronting clergy, congregants, and communities served by the Black church.