Brian McLaren Harvey Lecture
Mar 09, 2009
Brian McLaren
Brian McLaren , a leader in the contemporary church movement, will talk about preparing leaders for tomorrow's church during his Harvey Lecture at Seminary of the Southwest March 9.
McLaren - author, speaker and activist - will speak at 6:30 pm in the seminary's Knapp Auditorium. Doors open at 6 and the lecture is free and open to the public. The full title of his talk is "Preparing Leaders for Tomorrow's Church Today: An Episcopal Moment of Opportunity and Challenge." The lecturer will also preach at the seminary's morning prayer service at 11:15 in Christ Chapel.
Formerly a college English teacher, McLaren left academe in 1986 to be founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in Maryland. Since then he has been active in networking and mentoring church planters and pastors and assisting in the development of several new churches. Finding Our Way Again is the latest of his 10 published books.
McLaren is actively involved in emergent , a growing generative friendship among missional Christian leaders. He serves as board chair for Sojourners - the faith-based activist group founded by Jim Wallis who spoke at Southwest four years ago.
McLaren is one of six prominent, contemporary religious leaders to speak at Southwest in the past three years. Karen Ward, Phyllis Tickle, Diana Butler Bass, Barbara Brown Taylor and Dr. Amy-Jill Levine spoke on campus before McLaren's lecture.
The Harvey Lecture, organized annually by seminarians, honors the late Very Rev. Hudnall Harvey, dean of Seminary of the Southwest from 1968 to his death in 1972. The lectureship serves as a living memorial to Dean Harvey's ministry at Southwest.
