Third Annual Shurden Lectures

Press release from the BJC:

The Rev. Dr. Charles G. Adams, longtime Baptist Joint Committee (BJC) board member, pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit and a professor of the Practice of Ethics and Ministry at the Harvard Divinity School, will deliver the third annual Walter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures on Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State.

The lectures are scheduled for April 14-15 on the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Previous lecturers have included Rabbi David Saperstein of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and former BJC Executive Director James M. Dunn.

In 2004, Dr. Walter B. Shurden and Dr. Kay W. Shurden of Macon, Ga., made a gift to the BJC to establish an annual lectureship on the issues of religious liberty and the separation of church and state. The inaugural lecture was held in 2006 on the campus of Mercer University.