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Lifelong Learning

Annual Lectures

The Kenneth Willis Clark Lectures

Established in 1984, the Kenneth Willis Clark Lectureship Fund honors the life and work of Reverend Professor Kenneth Willis Clark, a Divinity School faculty member for 36 years. Each year this fund enables the Divinity School to offer a distinguished program with special emphasis on New Testament studies and textual criticism.

Textual Scholarship and New Testament Studies
The 2009 Kenneth Willis Clark Lectures by Dr. David Parker
February 10-11, 2009

The James A. Gray Lectures

These annual lectures, established in 1950 as part of a bequest made in 1947 by James A. Gray of Winston-Salem, N.C., are delivered during the Divinity School Convocation and Pastors’ School.

The Franklin S. Hickman Lectures

This lectureship was established in 1966 as part of a bequest by Mrs. Franklin S. Hickman in memory of her late husband, Dr. Franklin Simpson Hickman, professor of psychology of religion, Duke Divinity School, and dean of the Chapel, Duke University. This lectureship enables the Divinity School to bring practicing ministers of extraordinary qualities to lecture and preach, often in conjunction with Convocation and Pastors’ School, and to participate in Divinity School classes, worship, and informal sessions with students and faculty.

The Jameson Jones Lectures

A legacy of the ninth dean of the Divinity School, the Jameson Jones Fund provides for an annual lecture in the practice of ministry. Occasional seminars in preaching are offered in conjunction with the named lectures.