We're excited to announce the first in a series of events with Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb in September. This Lunch & Learn event is open to the public. If you'd like to purchase lunch, you can do that in the seminary cafeteria, the cost is $10/pp and can be paid the day-of.

Registration is required by September 1, 2025 in order to give the staff enough time to prepare.

Lunch and Learn at Columbia Theological Seminary

• Monday, September 15, 2025

• 12:30 PM 2:00 PM

• Columbia Theological Seminary701 South Columbia DriveDecatur, GA, 30030United States (map)
  
  Founder and President of Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem, Rev. Prof. Mitri Raheb is the most widely published Palestinian theologian to date. Dr. Raheb is the author and editor of 50 books including Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, The People, The Bible. Rev. Raheb served as the senior pastor of the Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem from June 1987 to May 2017 and as the President of the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land from 2011-2016. He is a founding member of Bright Stars of Bethlehem, a US 501c3 non-for-profit organization. He is an elected member to the Palestinian National Council as well as the Palestinian Central Council.