 Stephen Webb |
The LaFollette Lecture Series was established by the Wabash College Board of Trustees to honor Charles D. LaFollette, their longtime colleague on the Board. The lecture is given each year by a Wabash College faculty member who is charged to address the relation of his or her special discipline to the humanities broadly conceived.
“The Sound of God: Supersonic Theology and the Future of Public Speaking” will be the title of Webb’s presentation, which will begin at 4:15 p.m. in Salter Hall of the Fine Arts Center. A reception will follow his talk in the Littell Lobby in the Fine Arts Center.
Webb began teaching at Wabash College in 1988. He is a 1983 graduate of Wabash College and earned a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1989. He teaches church history, theological ethics, religion and literature, and seminars in theology and ethics. One of his interests is in developing a distinctively Christian approach to the problem of animal welfare. A group of people who share this goal have organized the Christian Vegetarian Association, which Webb co-chairs. He is the author of Good Eating, a book on the Christian vegetarian movement. This group can be found at christianveg.com. Webb has also written a book, The Divine Voice, which appropriates the study of voice and sound for Christian theology. Webb is also dedicated to spreading the fame of the first famous black American, Harry Hoosier, who was a great Methodist.
The LaFollette Lecture is free and open to the public.