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Looking ahead to our 2027 James W. White LectureshipSpeaker, Willie James Jennings
April 16-18, 2027,
Willie James Jennings will visit First Congregational Church as the 2027 JWW Lectureship Series speaker. Dr. Jennings is currently Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale University Divinity School, where he teaches in the areas of Christian thought, race theory, decolonial and environmental studies.
Dr. Jennings is the author of The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (2010), recognized as an important theological work and used as a text in colleges, seminaries, and universities. He was awarded the 2010 American Academy of Religion Book of the Year in the Constructive-Reflective Studies category.
Dr. Jennings’s commentary on the Book of Acts, Acts: A Theological Commentary on the Bible (2017) won the Reference Book of the Year Award, from The Academy of Parish Clergy. He is also the author of After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (2020). Dr. Jennings is currently completing work on a two-volume project on the doctrine of creation. Volume two, provisionally entitled, Jesus and the Displaced: The Redemption of Habitation, will be published before volume one.
Dr. Jennings is an ordained Baptist minister and has served as interim pastor for several North Carolina churches. He is a graduate of Calvin College and received his M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in religion and ethics from Duke.
Watch for more information next spring including information about the theme and topics he will be presenting.
We will also be holding a Book Discussion Group at FCUCC based on his writings, planned for March 1, 8, 15 & 22, 2027 - 9:30-11:00 a.m.
(Source: Yale Divinity School faculty biography)
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