The Office of Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School will hold a worship service and an evening lecture as part of the 2022 Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Series.
There will be a morning worship service from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m and an afternoon lecture from 3:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. in Goodson Chapel.
This year's speaker is Dr. Lerone A. Martin, associate professor of Religious Studies, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial chair, and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.
- Guest Lecturer
Lerone A. Martin is associate professor of Religious Studies, the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial chair, and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.Professor Martin has received a number of nationally recognized fellowships, including fellowships at the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation), The Teagle Foundation, Templeton Religion Trust, the Louisville Institute for the Study of American Religion, and the Forum for Theological Exploration.
Most recently, Martin became co-director of a $1 million grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to fund The Crossroads Project, a four-year multi-institution project to advance public understanding of the history, politics, and cultures of African American religions.
Professor Martin's commentary and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, CNN, C-SPAN, and PBS. He is currently writing a book on the relationship between the FBI and white Christian nationalism, to be published by Princeton University Press in 2022.