Annual Lecture Series

Campbell University Divinity School Lecture Series

It’s important to Campbell Divinity School that ministers have resources and opportunities available to them throughout the year that enrich them academically, spiritually, and in their ministries. The annual lecture series brings scholars from around the country and world to deliver lectures on a wide variety of topics that are related to evangelism, biblical studies, and preaching. 

 

The James C. Cammack Institute of Preaching Lectures

March 19, 2024 

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon Chapel Sermon, Butler Chapel
3:00 – 4:00 pm Afternoon Lecture, Butler Chapel

Registration:

Students, faculty, staff, reading group members, and BWIM cohort members my register for the lectures and lunch at the following link:

Lecture Registration + Lunch

Other guests from outside Campbell University Divinity School may register for the lectures here:

Lecture Registration

Rev. Dr. Kimberly Wagner

Dr. Kimberly Wagner standing in library stacksThe Rev. Dr. Kimberly Wagner serves as the Assistant Professor of Preaching at Princeton Theological Seminary. She received a B.S. in Secondary Life Science Education from Miami University (OH), a M.Div. from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, and her Ph.D. from the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University. Though she has served among the Lutherans and was educated among United Methodists, Dr. Wagner is ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Previous experience on the pastoral staff of a PCUSA congregation in Virginia helps fuel and inform her present scholarship and teaching. She is passionate about supporting students’ formation and helping clergy and communities navigate the realities of an ever-changing world and church. Her current writing and work focus on preaching and ministry in the midst and wake of trauma, particularly thinking about collective trauma, the role of the preacher, and the resources of our Scriptures and faith to respond to these moments. Dr. Wagner’s book, Fractured Ground: Preaching in the Wake of Mass Trauma (Westminster John Knox Press, 2023), offers guidance for preaching in the aftermath of communal trauma, including mass violence, natural disasters, and public health crises.  

In appreciation of Dr. James Cammack’s love and legacy of preaching, his son, Chris Cammack, established the James C. Cammack Institute of Preaching Lectures in 2011.

For more information, email Sara Acosta, Director of Student Services: sacosta@campbell.edu

 

The L.B. and Mabel Reavis Professorship and Scholarship Program

September 26, 2023

Lecture Times: 11:00 am & 3:00 pm

Register Online

Dr. Rebecca DeYoung (Ph.D. University of Notre Dame) has enjoyed teaching ethics and the history of ancient and medieval philosophy at Calvin College for over 20 years.  Her research focuses on the seven deadly sins, and virtue ethics, as well as Thomas Aquinas’s work on the virtues.  Her books include Glittering Vices (Brazos, 2nd edition 2020), Vainglory (Eerdmans), and a co-authored volume entitled Aquinas’s Ethics (University of Notre Dame Press).  Recent essays about various vices and virtues—hope, despair, sloth, courage, magnanimity, wrath, and vainglory—appear in Virtues and Their Vices (Oxford), Being Good (Eerdmans), and Cambridge Critical Guide to Aquinas’s De Malo (Cambridge), and the journals Res PhilosophicaACPQ, the Thomist, and Faith and Philosophy. Awards for her work include the Book and Essay Prize from the Character Project and the C.S. Lewis prize for Glittering Vices. She speaks widely, including opportunities to teach in prison. She and her husband Scot live in Grand Rapids, near the beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline. They have four children ages 15-22.

 

 

E.J. and Amaretta Prevatte Biblical Studies Lecture Series

November 7, 2023

11:00 am: John’s Dramatic Transformation of the Synoptics

3:00 pm: Who Was the Beloved Disciple? John for Readers of the Synoptics

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Mark Goodacre is the Frances Hill Fox Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University, North Carolina, USA. He earned his MA, M.Phil and DPhil at the University of Oxford. His research interests include the Gospels, the Apocryphal New Testament, and the Historical Jesus. Goodacre is the author of four books including The Case Against Q: Studies in Markan Priority and the Synoptic Problem (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2002) and Thomas and the Gospels: The Case for Thomas’s Familiarity with the Synoptics (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012). He is well known for creating web resources on New Testament and Christian origins, including his podcast, the NT Pod. Goodacre has acted as consultant for several TV and radio programs including The Passion (BBC / HBO, 2008) and Finding Jesus (CNN, 2015-17). Goodacre is currently working on a book on John’s knowledge of the Synoptic Gospels.

 

 

 

Lecture Information

These events are offered at no charge and will include a ministry focus, a biblical focus, an academic focus, and a preaching focus. The lectures will be held in the Robert and Anna Butler Chapel. Follow Divinity School event signs for parking.

Mark your calendars now! Bring another minister with you and join us for any or all of these spiritual growth opportunities. These speakers will encourage you, stretch you, and inspire you. Campbell University provides a variety of venues for any meals you want to purchase.

We are glad to provide these growth and renewal opportunities for you. 

 

Lodging

Please call numbers listed below and mention the Ministers Continuing Education Program at Campbell University Divinity School for reduced rates.

COMFORT INN, FUQUAY-VARINA
7616 Purfoy Rd. (27526)
919-557-9000

QUALITY INN, FUQUAY-VARINA
511 N. Judd Parkway NE (27526)
919-557-2009

HAMPTON INN, DUNN
100 Jesse Tart Circle (28334)
910-892-4333

HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS, DUNN
900 East Pearsall Street (28334)
910-892-4400

MARRIOTT FAIRFIELD INN AND SUITES, DUNN
513 Springs Branch Road
Dunn, NC 28334
(910) 891-4064