The Edmunds Lecture Series

The next in the series will be held in March of 2010, and the featured speaker is:

The Rev. Dr. Richard A. Lischer, James T. and Alice Mead Cleland Professor of Preaching, The Divinity School of Duke University; Durham, NC. He will visit Second Presbyterian on March 28-29, 2010. Some of his writings include The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America and his most recent book, The End of Words.

Dr. Lischer will lecture both evenings at 7:00 p.m., and a reception will follow each night in Fellowship Hall. This educational event is offered to the community at no cost. Everyone is welcome.

Dr. Lischer will also be delivering the sermon at both the 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. services on Palm Sunday, March 28.

Again, everyone is invited to come.

About the art . . . It is said confession is good for the soul. St. Augustine found it so in his confessions. My mixed media artwork reflects his confession, as an adult, of the theft of pears from an orchard when he was 16. He and friends stole the pears and fed them to some hogs. Augustine writes at length about the remorse he feels for this senseless act. The succulent pears and the thieving hand are depicted in the center, while the surrounding area represents the inner turmoil he feels. Texture and color help create the essence of this story.

- Jane Winders Frank

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Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor was the 2009 Edmunds Lecturer.

Barbara Brown Taylor teaches religion at Piedmont College in rural northeast Georgia and is an adjunct professor of spirituality at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur. She is the author of 12 books, including An Altar in the World, forthcoming from HarperOne in February 2009. Her first memoir, Leaving Church, met with widespread critical acclaim, winning a 2006 Author of the Year award from the Georgia Writers Association. An at-large editor for The Christian Century and sometime commentator on Georgia Public Radio, Taylor lives on a working farm with her husband Ed and a wide variety of creatures.

Books
An Altar in the World, HarperOne, 2009
Leaving Church, HarperSanFrancisco, 2006
The Seeds of Heaven, Westminster John Knox, 2004
Speaking of Sin, Cowley, 2000
The Luminous Web, Cowley, 2000
Home By Another Way, Cowley, 1999
When God is Silent, Cowley, 1998
Mixed Blessings, Cowley, 1998
God in Pain, Abingdon, 1998
Bread of Angels, Cowley, 1997
Gospel Medicine, Cowley, 1995
The Preaching Life, Cowley, 1993

Education
Yale Divinity School, Master of Divinity, 1976
Emory University, Bachelor of Arts in Religion, 1973

Ordination
Deacon, Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, 1983
Priest, Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, 1984

Honorary Doctor of Divinity Degrees
Wake Forest University, 2006
The University of the South, 2005
Hastings University, 2005
Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, 2002
Colgate University, 2001
Virginia Theological Seminary, 2001
Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, 1997
Piedmont College, 1995

Memberships and Honors
Board of Advisors, The Buechner Institute
Board of Advisors, Yale Divinity School
Board of Advisors, The Istanbul Center
The Authors Guild
The Georgia Association of Writers
The American Academy of Religion
The Society of Biblical Literature
Who's Who Among America's Teachers 2002, 2004, 2005
The Emory Medal, Emory University, 1998
Yale Divinity School Alumni Award, 1993
Associated Church Press Award of Excellence, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006

Family
Born September 21, 1951, to Grace McGahee Brown of College Park, GA, and Earl Clement Brown of Sioux Falls, SD (d. 2002). Two sisters, Kathryn Brown Stevens of Fayetteville, GA, and Jennifer Brown Moore of Atlanta, GA, who are the mothers of nephews William Wallace Stevens, IV and Patrick Conor Moore. Married E. Edward Taylor on November 20, 1982, thereby gaining daughters-by-marriage Kathleen Taylor Jacobs of Dunedin, FL, and Claire Taylor Mills of Atlanta, GA, mother of granddaughters Madeline and Ava.

Dr. Brown's website: www.barbarabrowntaylor.com.

The Rev. Dr. Richard A. Lischer

James T. and Alice Mead Cleland Professor of Preaching, The Divinity School of Duke University (Durham, NC)

Artwork for the 2010 series was executed
by Jane Winders Frank
"Confession"

The Edmunds Lecture Series

The Rev. Dr. Richard A. Lischer

James T. and Alice Mead Cleland Professor of Preaching, The Divinity School of Duke University (Durham, NC)

Artwork for the 2010 series was executed by Jane Winders Frank "Confession"

The Edmunds Lecture Series

Artwork for the 2010 series was executed
by Jane Winders Frank
"Confession"