A nationally-known theologian and social ethicist, Dr. Gayraud Wilmore, will return to Stetson University to speak during a Nov. 18 centennial celebration of Dr. Howard Thurman's birth. His lecture is the fourth in Stetson's Fall 1999 Thurman Lecture Series.
All lectures are open to the public without charge.
Wilmore also was a Thurman lecturer at Stetson two years ago. A Daytona Beach native, Howard Thurman was a spiritual advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and hailed as one of the greatest pastors of the century. He was the first African-American dean of Marsh Chapel at Boston University and cofounder of The Fellowship Church for All Peoples in San Francisco, the first interracially copastored church in America. Stetson's Howard Thurman Program, directed by the Rev. Jefferson Rogers, was established in April 1996 in partnership with New Birth Corporation, a national board of African-American leaders. The program's mission is to unite scholars and community leaders in seeking solutions to social, religious and ethnic problems.