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Moral Monday and Public Religious Leadership: Honoring the Legacy of Will Campbell
October 21, 2013 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Free
The School of Divinity in partnership with the North Carolina Council of Churches, and the Wake Forest University Department of Religion, the Religion and Public Engagement Program, and Office of the Chaplain, will be hosting a forum on Moral Mondays and Public Religious Leadership.
The forum is held in honor and remembrance of Will Campbell (’48). Professor Stephen Boyd from the Department of Religion will be lecturing. Other presenters will include community leaders who participated in Moral Monday events during the last legislative session.
Schedule
| 2:00pm | Welcome and Words about Will Campbell |
| 2:15pm | Panel of Participants in Moral Mondays |
| 3:00pm | “Moral Mondays and Dr. King’s Dream of a Multi-Racial Human Rights Movement”: Lecture by Steve Boyd, John Allen Easley Professor of Religion Lecture is sponsored by the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Lecture Series |
| About the Lecture: The lecture will address the Moral Monday Movement that began during the 2013 Session of the North Carolina Legislature. Attention will be given to select aspects of the legislative agenda, their effects on various members of the state’s population, media coverage, and the nature, growth, and aims of the demonstrations, including the 950 who engaged in non-violent civil disobedience and were arrested. Boyd will touch on the larger historical context of race and class in the US and North Carolina and then suggest that this new movement has the potential to answer Dr. King’s call for a broadening of the Civil Rights Movement to a multi-racial human rights movement. | |
| 4:15pm | Panel: “Next Steps for Religious Leaders and Communities” |
About Will D. Campbell
Will D. Campbell (’48) was a theologian, pastor, university official, writer, and social activist. He served as the Director of the Southern Churchmen, which served as a platform for his extensive commentary over half a century on the intersections of faith and social conscience. His first book, published in 1962, was Race and the Renewal of the Church. His 1977 book Brother to a Dragonfly, which chronicles the civil rights movement, was a National Book Award finalist. President Clinton honored Campbell with a Presidential Humanities Medal in 2000, and he has been given lifetime achievement awards from the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee and the Tennessee chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.