The lecture marks the start of Wake Forest's 1997-98 Year of Religion in American Life. Immediately afterward, Kushner and Bill J. Leonard, dean of Wake Forest's Divinity School and chair of the Year of Religion committee, will be available for brief interviews.
Photographers are welcome.
Del. The Waddill awards recognize annually two Wake Forest alumni who are outstanding teachers. The program is at 8 p.m. in Scales Fine Arts Center, Room 102. Johnson, who is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Emory University's Candler School of Theology, is visiting Wake Forest as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar program. The reception will run from 7-9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5, in the Scales Fine Arts Center Gallery.