Call To Action 50th Anniversary Headliner Announcement

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Dr. Craig Ford

Call To Action is excited to announce that Dr. Craig Ford will be one of our headline speakers for our 50th Anniversary Conference in November.

Craig A. Ford, Jr. (Ph.D., Boston College) is Assistant Professor of Ethics in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University (Atlanta, GA). He is also on the faculty at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana (New Orleans, LA), the United States’s only Catholic Historically Black College or University (HBCU). Dr. Ford writes on topics at the intersection of moral theology, queer theology/queer theory, and Black studies. In addition to publishing numerous articles in popular outlets like Commonweal, the National Catholic Reporter, and the New Ways Ministry blog, Dr. Ford is the author of a number of widely-cited academic essays, including "Transgender Bodies, Catholic Schools, and a Queer Natural Law Theology of Exploration" (Journal of Moral Theology, 2018), and "Our New Galileo Affair" (Horizons, 2023), which received the 2022 Catherine Mowry LaCugna Award for Best Essay by a young scholar from the Catholic Theological Society of America. His current book project, Works of Art: Gender and Sexuality in Liberative Natural Law Perspective is being published by Fortress Press.

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