In-person For Alumni For Clergy For Lay Leaders For Students General Audience

The Divinity School will host a public lecture: "A 'Uniformed Parish': Christianity and Policing in Modern American History" with Dr. Aaron Griffith, assistant professor of history at Whitworth University, Spokane, Washington as the speaker.

About the Speaker

Aaron Griffith is an assistant professor of history at Whitworth University. He has an M.Div. and Th.D. from Duke Divinity School and previously was a postdoctoral fellow at the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. Aaron’s first book, God's Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America, was published in 2020 by Harvard University Press and won the "Best Book in History & Biography" award from Christianity Today for 2022. He is the recipient of the 2021 Emerging Public Intellectual Award, hosted by Redeemer University, and was a public fellow in the Religion and Renewing Democracy Initiative at the Public Religion Research Institute from 2021-2023. He writes regularly for popular publications such as TIME and Religion News Service, and has been quoted on issues relating to religion and criminal justice in publications such as The Atlantic and Christianity Today. He is currently at work on a book on the religious history of American policing.