From the FUMC website:
Again, we have an outstanding speaker for the Lyons Lecture on April 28 and 29 in 2007. The Reverend Doctor James A. Forbes, Jr. Senior Minister of the Riverside Church in New York City. The Church is an interdenominational, interracial, and international church built by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1927. The 2,400 member church is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches and the United Church of Christ. It is well known for it’s senior ministers including Harry Emerson Fosdick and William Sloan Coffin.
Dr. Forbes, who is the fifth senior minister at Riverside is the first African-American to serve as Senior Minister of the multicultural congregation. Before being called to Riverside’s pulpit, Dr. Forbes served Union Theological Seminary from 1976 to 1989 as Professor of Preaching. In national and international circles, Dr. Forbes is known as the preacher’s preacher because of his extensive preaching career and his charismatic style. To many of us in Madison he is remembered from the Bill Moyers interview of him and from hosting The Time is Now on Air America Radio.
Dr. Forbes Saturday lecture will be on “Healing the Spirit of the Nation”.
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