Forbes will preach both days at 11 a.m. in the Bryan Center's Reynolds Theater, on Duke's West Campus. Also on Tuesday, March 2, he will give a lecture at 2 p.m. in the Duke Divinity School's York Chapel, on the second floor of the Gray Building. A reception will follow.
All events are open to the public.
Forbes, a native of Burgaw, N.C., is the son of Bishop James A. Forbes Sr., who pastored at Providence Holy Church in Raleigh in the 1950s. The younger Forbes is an ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches and the Original United Holy Church of America. The Riverside Church, numbering 2,400 members, is an interracial, interdenominational and international church that was built by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1927. The church is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches and the United Church of Christ. Before assuming the pastorate of the Riverside Church in 1989, Forbes served on the faculty of Union Theological Seminary in New York City from 1976-89.