Bishop Dwayne Royster spoke on February 28, 2016 at the Philadelphia Ethical Society about “The Web We Weave: The Need for Intersectionality in the 21st Century Justice Movements.”

Dr. Martin Luther King suggested in his book, Letter from a Birmingham Jail that, “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” Somehow we have lost sight of this in modern movements that are often in silos and in competition with one another for resources. Bishop Dwayne Royster will bring a message to suggest that the only way we can win on justice issues, in the age of Citizen’s United and uncontrolled spending by business interests, is when we choose to not work in silos but embrace the desire to Build the Beloved Community for all people.

Bishop Royster is a graduate of Geneva College’s Center for Urban Theological Studies with a Bachelor of Science in Urban Ministry, as well as Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia with a Master of Arts in Religion Degree with a specialization in the African-American Church. Along with being a pastor for more than two decades, he is General Secretary of Higher Ground Christian Fellowship International and serves on the College of Bishops. Royster is the Executive Director of POWER; An Interfaith Movement, Pennsylvania’s largest faith-based organizing movement of 65 congregations largely of Christian, Jewish and Muslim faith traditions (of which the Ethical Society is a member), working for Justice in Pennsylvania and beyond, and is a former Councilman at Large for the City of Norristown, Pa.

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