We Wish to Plead Our Own Cause: The Legacy and Promise of African American Christian Scholarship and Intellectual Development

Barbara Omolade, Calvin College

Monday, July 18 at 7:30pm
Commons Lecture Hall, Calvin College

In this lecture, Barbara Omolade will examine the issues and concerns of African American Christian thinkers since the 19th century, from Maria Stewart to Howard Thurman. Omolade's lecture will provide a context for understanding the work of contemporary Afro Christian scholars and participants in the Calvin College Consultation of Afro Christian Scholars in Higher Education. There will be a reception following the lecture.

Barbara Omolade, Dean for Multicultural Affairs and Professor of Sociology at Calvin College, is a Christian scholar that specializes in African-American and women's issues. She has been the co-director of the annual Consultation of Afro-Christian Scholars in Higher Education at Calvin College since 2001. Over the past 40 years she has journeyed through civil rights activism, African-American cultural awakenings, early feminism, and the dawning era of women's studies. During this time she also raised a family, earned two graduate degrees, taught college, did pioneering scholarship, home-schooled her son, and converted to Christianity.

Seminars in Christian Scholarship
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