“Faith and Food: A Christian Ethical Response to Food Injustice”

How can we align the daily act every one of us does – eating food – with our core faith-based values of social justice, animal welfare, environmental protection, and health? Theologians and food activists will explore this challenge in a special Earth Day program at St. Alban’s Church.

Keynote speaker will be Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter, whose book The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice merges a history of Black American foodways with a Christian ethical response to food injustice.

Other speakers will include:

• The Rev. Melanie Mullen (Director of Reconciliation, Justice, and Creation Care for The Episcopal Church);
• Aysha Akhtar, M.D. (neurologist, animal welfare activist, author);
• St. Alban’s parishioner Mary Beth Albright (journalist, author, food expert);
• Chef Todd Gray & Ellen Kassoff Gray (co-founders, Equinox Restaurant);
• Pamela Hess (Executive Dir., Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food & Agriculture);
• Danielle Nierenberg (President, Food Tank); Sara Polon (co-Founder & CEO, Soupergirl); and
• The Rev. Derrick Weston (Creation Justice Ministries).

Attendance is free of charge but registration is required in order to receive lunch. Register here

Nursery care and children’s programs will be available. The program will also be live-streamed.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, EMAIL MERY MONTENEGRO, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, ST. ALBAN’S CHURCH OR CALL 202-363-8286.