The Howard Williams Speaker Series is a long-standing tradition at Weatherly. In striving to be a boldly inclusive, faithfully thinking and progressively Baptist witness in our community, we have hosted lecture series that have included Frank Tupper, Fisher Humphreys, Molly Marshall, Thomas Oord in past years, to name only a few. These events seek to challenge and encourage us and our community.
Speaker Series 2026
This year our series will feature Dr. David Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University and Chair in Christian Social Ethics at Vrije Universiteit (Free University, Amsterdam). David P. Gushee is one of the most important Christian ethicists of the past thirty years. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than thirty books, including Kingdom Ethics, After Evangelicalism, Still Christian, The Moral Teachings of Jesus, and the landmark Changing Our Mind. Dr. Gushee has served as president of the American Academy of Religion, as well as the Society of Christian Ethics. He has addressed the most urgent moral challenges of our time: democracy and political integrity, LGBTQ+ inclusion in the church, and the moral formation of Christian communities in the way of Jesus.