About this Event
Grace Church Brooklyn Heights invites you to a free lecture on America at 250: Democracy, Race and the Unfinished Moral Project at 254 Hicks Street on Saturday, June 20, 2026 at 11 am.
Featuring Dr. Gary Dorrien, who teaches social ethics, theology, and philosophy of religion as the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University.
All are welcome. A light lunch will be served. Registration is limited and required.
Dr. Gary Dorrien is the author of 24 books and more than 300 articles that range across the fields of social ethics, philosophy, theology, political economics, social and political theory, religious history, cultural criticism, and intellectual history.
Social critic Michael Eric Dyson wrote in 2021: “Gary Dorrien is the greatest theological ethicist of the twenty-first century, our most compelling political theologian, and one of the most gifted historians of ideas in the world.” Philosopher Cornel West describes Dorrien as “the preeminent social ethicist in North America today.” Philosopher Robert Neville calls him “the most rigorous theological historian of our time, moving from analyses of social context and personal struggles through the most abstruse theological and metaphysical issues.”
Dorrien told an interviewer in 2016: “I am a jock who began as a solidarity activist, became an Episcopal cleric at thirty, became an academic at thirty-five, and never quite settled on a field, so now I explore the intersections of too many fields.”
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Grace Church Brooklyn Heights⛪, 254 Hicks Street, Brooklyn, United States
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