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The 24th annual Holmer Lecture featured Dr. Emmanuel Katongole, Professor of Theology and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. The November 14, 2019 lecture was co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota Department of African American and Africa Studies and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Twenty-five years ago in Rwanda, Christian leaders and laypersons contributed to the massacre of their neighbors only a few days after celebrating Easter. During the violence that enveloped the country between April and July 1994, an estimated 500,000 to one million Tutsi and their perceived Hutu and Twa allies were killed in a country in which nearly 90% of the population identified as Christian. Why and how did Christians become involved in the 1994 genocide? And yet a minority group of churches and Christian leaders did oppose genocidal violence and pursue peaceful resistance. How do stories of participation in and resistance to violence relate to the journey of reconciliation in Rwanda and around the world? What does it look like for Christians to embody an ethic of repentance, forgiveness and reconciliation given the culpability of Christians and churches in past injustice and violence?

Professor Tade Okediji (UMN Applied Economics; African American and African Studies) and Brooke Chambers (UMN Sociology PhD candidate and 2018 Badzin Fellow in Holocaust & Genocide Studies) offered responses to the lecture.