WASHINGTON (ABP) — One of America's most renowned African-American preachers will deliver the third annual Shurden Lectures on Religious Liberty and the Separation of Church and State.
Charles Adams will give the speeches, which are scheduled for April 14-15 on the campus of Wake Forest University.
For nearly four decades, Adams has served as pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit. The 10,000-member congregation has been noted for its innovative ministries, credited by many with the economic revitalization of large parts of the poverty-addled city.
In addition to his pastoral duties, Adams serves as a professor of applied ethics and ministry at Harvard Divinity School, his alma mater.
He is also a longtime board member of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. The Washington-based watchdog organization sponsors the lecture series, which was endowed by, and named for, longtime Baptist leaders Walter and Kay Shurden of Macon, Ga.
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