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    Ep. 330 Changing the Conversation: Reproductive Justice

    enJanuary 27, 2024
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    About this Episode

    This week, we discuss one of the issues that will be driving the conversation this election year, and a corresponding Texas Impact event, as we welcome leaders from Friends Congregational Church in College Station: Sr. Pastor Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon, Cecilia Hawkins, leader of the Justice and Mission Outreach Committee and Kyle Rile, Texas Impact's Houston Civic Engagement and United Church of Christ Fellow. They are partnering with Texas Impact on an event called Changing the Conversation: The Theology of Reproductive Justice with Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters, February 11th, at Friends both in College Station and streamed online. 

     

    Find out more about Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters and her book Trust Women at www.rebeccatoddpeters.com

     

    Register for Changing the Conversation: The Theology of Reproductive Justice at texasimpact.org/events

     

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