By BJC Staff Reports
Molly T. Marshall, president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Shawnee, Kansas, will deliver the 2016 Walter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures on Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State. The lectures will be at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota, on April 4-5, 2016.
For more than 30 years, Marshall has been in theological education. She taught at Central in various positions before her appointment as president in 2004, and she continues to serve as Professor of Theology and Spiritual Formation. Previously, Marshall was Associate Professor of Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Her experience in ministry is varied, including service as youth minister, campus minister and pastor in churches across Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Kentucky.
A graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University, Marshall received her M.Div. and Ph.D. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Her writings include three monographs, No Salvation Outside the Church?, What it Means to Be Human, and Joining the Dance: a Theology of the Spirit, as well as numerous book chapters, journal articles and Bible study curricula. She also has published six volumes of Trinitarian Soundings, a collection of reflections on the lectionary. Currently, Marshall is writing a commentary on Thessalonians for the BELIEF series.
The Shurden Lectures began when Walter B. Shurden and Kay W. Shurden of Macon, Georgia, made a gift to the BJC in 2004 to establish an annual lectureship on the issues of religious liberty and the separation of church and state. Each year, the Shurden Lecturer is someone who can inspire and call others to an ardent commitment to religious freedom.
The lectures will be free and open to the public. For the latest, including details on the schedule as it becomes available, visit BJConline.org/ShurdenLectures.
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