Thomas White Currie Lecturer

Catherine Keller

Contemporary Christian theologian and Professor of Constructive Theology at Drew University's Graduate Division of Religion. As a constructive theologian, Keller's work is oriented around social and ecological justice, poststructuralist theory, and feminist readings of scripture and theology.

The Thomas White Currie Lectures were first held in 1952. For many years the Tom Currie Bible Class of Highland Park Presbyterian Church of Dallas, Texas, sponsored this annual lectureship. In 2008 a generous gift from the Currie family established the Thomas White Currie Lectureship Endowed Fund which will underwrite them in perpetuity.

Robert F. Jones Lecturer

David P. Gushee

Christian ethicist, Baptist pastor, author, professor, and public intellectual. Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and formerly the Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University.  He is also Chair of Christian Social Ethics at the Faculty of Religion and Theology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Gushee is most known for his activism in climate change, LGBT inclusion , and post-evangelicalism.

The Robert F. Jones Lectures were established in 1949 by the Women of the Church of First Presbyterian Church, Fort Worth, Texas. They continue to fund the lecture in memory of their pastor of thirty-five years.

E.C. Westervelt Lecturer

Chris Tirres

Holds the Michael J. Buckley Endowed Chair at Santa Clara University. Tirres is the author of Liberating Spiritualities: Reimagining Faith in the Américas and The Aesthetics and Ethics of Faith: A Dialogue between Liberationist and Pragmatic Thought.

The E. C. Westervelt Lectures were established in 1949 by Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Flato of Corpus Christi, Texas, in honor of the parents of Mrs. Flato.