Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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September 15, 2020, The Office of Black Church Studies hosted its annual Gardner C. Taylor Lecture Series. This conversation and lecture encouraged seminarians, practitioners, theologians, and community partners to gaze deeply at the intersections of preaching in problematic times.

This 2020 event included:

Dr. Frank A. Thomas, Ph.D., Director of the Ph.D. Program in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric and as the Nettie Sweeney and Hugh Th. Miller Professor of Homiletics at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana;

Rev. Nicole Williams, Minister, Podcaster, Duke Divinity M.Div. '19

Rev. Nicholas M. Irion, Black Seminarian Union President, M.Div. '21