DR. KATIE CANNON TO SPEAK posted 9/19/03

Dr. Katie G. Cannon, the first African-American woman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church (USA), is the next speaker in the Convocation speaker series. Her presentation is scheduled Oct. 1 at 12:15 p.m. in the Adrian College Chapel.

Cannon is the Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Va. She focuses her work in the areas of Christian ethics, Womanist theology, and women in religion and society.

The Gale Group’s Biography Resource Center says the following: “As the first black woman to be ordained a Presbyterian minister, Katie Cannon has had to learn to define herself in her own terms in order to meet her many challenges. Growing up poor, black, female, and intellectually gifted in rural North Carolina, gender, and more particularly, race have always been central issues in Cannon's life.”

The title of her presentation is “The Hinge on which the Future Swings: Social Teachings in African American Sacred Rhetoric.”

The Convocation series is free and open to the public.

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