Lewis Baldwin to speak at Messiah College to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
December 19th, 2008
GRANTHAM, Pa. (Dec. 19, 2008) — Lewis Baldwin, a distinguished professor and scholar, will speak at Messiah College on Jan. 20 as part of the college’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Week. The event will take place at 9:45 a.m. in Brubaker Auditorium in the Eisenhower Campus Center on Messiah’s Grantham campus. Baldwin will speak on “The Continuing Search for Community: The Meaning of Martin Luther King, Jr. for the 21st Century.” Admission is free, and the event is open to the public.
Baldwin teaches in the department of religious studies at Vanderbilt University and is an ordained Baptist minister as well as an ordained Methodist deacon. While pursuing his degree in history at Talladega College in Alabama, Baldwin was very active in the Civil Rights Movement, participating in several demonstrations and other civil rights activities. In 2004, Baldwin was inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Collegium of Scholars. In addition to being an author, he preaches around the country and speaks at many colleges, universities, divinity schools and seminaries.
Messiah College, a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls 2,800 undergraduate students in more than 60 majors. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Grantham, Pa., near the state capital of Harrisburg. A satellite campus affiliated with Temple University is located in Philadelphia.