The 2025 Fosdick Lecture On Preaching: Rev. Dr. DeWayne Davis

Name: The 2025 Fosdick Lecture On Preaching: Rev. Dr. DeWayne Davis
Start: 2025-03-06T10:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-03-06T12:00:00-06:00
Location: Hoversten Chapel, Augsburg University

Schedule

Thu Mar 06 2025 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Hoversten Chapel, Augsburg University | Minneapolis, MN

Rev. Dr. DeWayne Davis will be our speaker and preacher for the eighth Fosdick Lecture on Preaching at Augsburg University. Please join us!
“Shall Untruth Win? Faithful Preaching in an Age of Mistrust and Misinformation”
Observers have offered provocative words and phrases to describe our cultural and political moment. Post-truth. The fall of reason. Alternative facts. Can good news penetrate the noise of propaganda and conspiracy in our national discourse? Can a word of hope break through the cynicism and nihilism of cruel and radicalized politics?
Now more than ever, from one-on-one meetings with parishioners to our proclamations from behind the sacred desk to our public utterances, courageous preachers must freshly voice the enduring wisdom of the Bible, the tradition, and religious experience to a people awash in propaganda and misinformation delivered through an inflammatory media landscape. Harry Emerson Fosdick summoned the courage to speak truthfully and faithfully during his time of rapid change and discoveries. Will we?
Schedule of the morning:
10:00 – 11:00 am – Lecture with Rev. Davis
11:00 – 11:20 am – Q&A session
11:20 – 11:30 am – Break
11:30 – 11:50 am – Chapel service (Rev. Davis will preach)
This event is free and open to the public.
Please register to receive parking and event information by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/d2Kj6BCkPtceSnxs6
The lecture and chapel service will be livestreamed. If you wish to join us virtually, indicate this in the form and a link will be shared with you directly closer to the date of the event.
If you need accommodations, please call the University Events department at 612.330.1104 or email [email protected].
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About our speaker:
Rev. Dr. DeWayne Davis joined Plymouth Congregational Church as Lead Minister in December 2020.
The son of two ministers and the youngest of fifteen children in Mississippi, Dr. Davis earned his BA (Magna Cum Laude) at Howard University and an MA at the University of Maryland (College Park). He was awarded an MDiv with Honors at Wesley Seminary (District of Columbia) and a DMin at Luther Seminary (St. Paul). He is ordained in the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. He’s married to Kareem Murphy, director of Government Relations for Hennepin County.
Dr. Davis brings a gift for preaching, an appetite for partnerships, a commitment to liberal theology and social justice, as well as experience in public policy work. Previously he worked as a policy analyst in the Office of Governmental Relations for the Episcopal Church, as a lobbyist for Sallie Mae, and a decade as a Senior Legislative Assistant for three members of the U.S. Congress. Most recently he served as Senior Pastor of All God’s Children congregation in Minneapolis.
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About the Fosdick Lecture on Preaching:
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969), the founding minister of Riverside Church in New York City, was regarded by Martin Luther King, Jr., as ‘‘the greatest preacher of this century.” One of liberal Protestantism’s most influential voices, Fosdick was a proponent of ecumenical Christianity, pacifism, and civil rights, whose radio sermons and writings reached millions.
Since 2016, Augsburg Campus Ministry has hosted the Fosdick Lecture on Preaching. Gifted preachers and storytellers have shared their insights on preaching and topics important to them.