HUNTINGDON COLLEGE
News Release
September 9, 2024
For more information, contact:
Laura Brelsford | laura.brelsford@hawks.huntingdon.edu | 334-833-4563
Dr. Esau McCaulley to Present Moore Lecture on September 26 at Huntingdon College
Montgomery, AL – Huntingdon College will welcome writer, professor, and public theologian, Dr. Esau McCaulley, to speak for The Marsha and Tom Moore Endowed Distinguished Lectureship on Equity, Justice, and Peace, Thursday, September 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Ligon Chapel in Flowers Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Dr. McCaulley is an author and the Jonathan Blanch Association Professor of New Testament and Public Theology at Wheaton College. His writing and speaking focus on New Testament Exegesis, African American Biblical Interpretation, and Public Theology. He has authored numerous books including, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope, which won numerous awards including Christianity Today’s book of the year. Esau also served as the editor of New Testament in Color: A Multi-Ethnic Commentary on the New Testament.
On the popular level, Dr. McCaulley’s recent memoir, How Far to the Promised Land, explores his family’s multigenerational search for hope and faith in an often poverty-stricken and racially hostile American south. It has received distinction as one of Amazon’s top five non-fiction books of 2023 and a Publisher’s Weekly top five book in religion.
McCaulley is a nationally recognized lecturer who has spoken on multiple campuses in the Consortium of Christian Colleges and Universities; at the nation’s top-ranked research institutions, and internationally. He holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from the University of St. Andrews, a Master of Sacred Theology from Nashotah House, a M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and a B.A. from the University of the South.
The Marsha and Tom Moore Endowed Distinguished Lectureship on Equity, Justice, and Peace was created in 2021 by Huntingdon alumni, Dr. Tom Moore ’73 and his wife, Marsha Kirk Moore ’74, of Spartanburg, South Carolina. The speaker series hosts speakers of national prominence to Huntingdon College to engage the campus and the community in a discussion that advances the issues of equity, justice, and peace.
Huntingdon College, grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition of the United Methodist Church, is committed to nurturing growth in faith, wisdom, and service and to graduating individuals prepared to succeed in a rapidly changing world. Founded in 1854, Huntingdon is a coeducational liberal arts college.
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