America at 250: Democracy, Race and the Unfinished Moral Project

Grace Church Brooklyn Heights invites you to a free lecture on America at 250: Democracy, Race and the Unfinished Moral Project at 254 Hicks Street on Saturday, June 20, 2026 at 11 am.

Featuring Dr. Gary Dorrien, who teaches social ethics, theology, and philosophy of religion as the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University.

All are welcome. A light lunch will be served. Registration is limited and required.

The Rev. Dr. Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. He has authored 25 books, including his latest memoir, Over from Union Road: My Christian-Left-Intellectual Life, and more than 300 articles that span the fields of social ethics, philosophy, theology, political economics, social and political theory, religious history, cultural criticism, and intellectual history.

Dorrien told an interviewer in 2016 that he is “a jock who began as a solidarity activist, became an Episcopal cleric at thirty, became an academic at thirty-five, and never quite settled on a field, so now I explore the intersections of too many fields.”

He is considered one of the "one of the most gifted historians of ideas in the world" (Rev. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson), “the preeminent social ethicist in North America today” (Dr. Cornel West), and “the most rigorous theological historian of our time" (Robert Cummings Neville).

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