Monastery,Seminary Event
Dr. Gregory Ellison II to give Black History Lecture
Tuesday, February 27
Time: 7 p.m. Central Time
Location: St. Bede Theater
Dr. Gregory Ellison II, associate professor of
pastoral care and counseling at Candler School of Theology in
Atlanta, GA, will deliver the annual Black History Lecture at Saint
Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, St. Meinrad, IN.
His lecture, "Vocations of Resistance: The Problems of Fit and
Flat," will be held on Tuesday, February 27, at 7 p.m. Central Time
in St. Bede Theater.
Ellison joined the Candler faculty in
2009. His teaching draws primarily from his work with Fearless
Dialogues, a nonprofit organization he founded 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 two books,
Cut Dead But Still Alive: Caring for African American Young
Men and Fearless Dialogues: The Civil Rights Movement of
the 21st Century.
He also has another book in progress, Anchored in the Current:
The Eternal Wisdom of Howard Thurman in a Changing
World.
Ellison has twice been the recipient of Candler's
"Faculty Person of the Year" award, in 2010-2011 and 2016-2017.
Also, in 2014, Ellison received the Emory Williams Distinguished
Teaching Award, Emory University's most prestigious faculty
teaching honor. He is an ordained Baptist minister who has served
in Methodist and Presbyterian churches.
Ellison earned his bachelor's at Emory University and his
master's and PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Parking is available
at St. Bede Hall and in the Guest House and student parking lots.
For more information, call Mary Jeanne Schumacher at (812) 357-6501
during business hours.