Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Reverend Professor Peter Gomes
World Renowned Theologian

What Dare We Expect?
7:30 p.m.
Eben Holden Center
Katherine Fraser Mackay Endowed lecture

It has been said that the job of president of a liberal arts college is an impossible assignment. This may be true, but if we have no expectations, we may get what we expect. Is there anything we can hope for in presidential leadership?

The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes has served since 1970 in The Memorial Church, Harvard University, and since 1974, he has been the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church. Named Clergy of the Year in 1998 by Religion in American Life, the Reverend Professor Gomes is author of New York Times and national best-selling books, The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart and Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living as well as The Backward Glance and the Forward Look, Gomes’s Book of Good Graces: A Collection of Graces and Blessings, Strength for the Journey: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living, and The Good Life: Truths That Last in Times of Need. He has published ten volumes of sermons as well as numerous articles and papers.

Book signing to follow the lecture.