Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. commemoration celebration: 'Called to Love'

Note: Due to weather, this event will now be held via Zoom.

Augustana College's annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., commemoration celebration will feature keynote speaker Dr. Reggie Williams, professor of Christian ethics at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Ill. This year's theme is "Called to Love." The event is sponsored by the Office of Student Inclusion and Diversity and the Augustana Diversity Council.

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About Dr. Reggie Williams

Dr. Reggie Williams received his Ph.D. in Christian ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary. His research interests include Christological ethics, theological anthropology, Christian social ethics, the Harlem Renaissance, race, politics and black church life. He is the author of Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance, which was selected as a Choice Outstanding Title in theology, in 2014. The book examines the impact of exposure to theology in the Harlem Renaissance on the German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was killed by the Nazis in 1945 for his resistance to Hitler’s government. Dr. Williams' current work continues to focus on black aesthetics as an intervention to re-calibrate common interpretations of human beings and of Christians that lead to harmful interpretations of God, and of ethical life. Dr. Williams is a board member of the English Language section of the International Dietrich Bonhoeffer Society, of the Society for the Study of Black Religion, and a former board member of the Society for Christian Ethics.