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Bishop Willimon to deliver Mendenhall Lecture March 8
GREENCASTLE, Ind. -William Willimon, bishop of the Birmingham Area of The United Methodist Church and one of the nation's top theologians, will deliver the spring Mendenhall Lecture at DePauw University on Tuesday, March 8. Willimon will discuss "DePauw: Being a University in Light of the Trinity" in a speech scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church, next to the university campus. The event is free and open to all.
Willimon, a prolific author and internationally acclaimed preacher, was elected bishop in 2004. He earned his M.Div. at Yale and his S.T.D. at Emory University and spent most of his academic life at Duke University where he was professor of Christian ministry and dean of the chapel.
Willimon has written 50 books including Character and Calling: The Virtues of the Ordained Life and The Sunday After Tuesday: College Pulpits Respond to 9/11. In 1996, an international survey by Baylor University named Willimon one of the "Twelve Most Effective Preachers" in the English-speaking world, a list that included evangelist Billy Graham.
The Mendenhall Lectures, which were inaugurated in 1913, were endowed by the Reverend Doctor Marmaduke H. Mendenhall. The endowment has allowed DePauw to bring theological and religious scholars of international repute to campus for nearly a century.
For more information, contact Ken Owen at 765-658-4634 or log on to www.depauw.edu.
Last updated on 25 Apr 2008