Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at Candler School of Theology and Founder of Fearless Dialogues

In this episode, Dr. Ellison invites us to consider how we should engage in the bi-vocational work of ministry and entrepreneurship. Dr. Ellison candidly shares his journey from start to present day of his influential movement Fearless Dialogues.

About Dr. Ellison

The Rev. Dr. Gregory C. Ellison II joined the Candler faculty in 2009. His teaching draws primarily from his work with the organization he founded called Fearless Dialogues, a non-profit organization that creates unique spaces for unlikely partners to have hard, heartfelt conversations on taboo subjects like racism, classism, and community violence. 

Ellison’s research focuses on caring with marginalized populations, pastoral care as social activism, and 20th and 21st century mysticism. He is the author of Cut Dead But Still Alive: Caring for African American Young Men, and Fearless Dialogues: A New Movement for Justice and is the editor of Anchored in the Current: Discovering Howard Thurman as Educator, Activist, Guide, and Prophet.