Baylor University’s Institute for Faith and Learning Will Host Fifth Annual Bailey Family Lecture In Christian Ethics

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WACO, Texas (April 3, 2018) — Baylor University’s Institute for Faith and Learning will host James Davison Hunter, Ph.D., the Labrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and executive director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture for the fifth annual Bill and Roberta Bailey Family Lecture in Christian Ethics.

Hunter will deliver his lecture “Good Kids: Thinking Anew about the Moral Formation of Children” at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 5, in the Barfield Drawing Room of the Bill Daniel Student Center, 1311 S. Fifth St.

“James Davison Hunter is a public intellectual of the first order and one of today’s most lucid and insightful scholars working at the intersection of religion and culture,” said Darin H. Davis, Ph.D., vice president for University Mission and director of the Institute for Faith and Learning.

“His exploration of the conditions necessary for the moral formation of young people is a most timely topic for this year’s Bailey Family Lecture in Christian Ethics.”

Begun in 2014, the Bill and Roberta Bailey Family Lecture in Christian Ethics features a scholar of significant stature to speak on issues or questions that arise from within the Christian moral tradition. The annual lecture is free and open to the Baylor and Waco community as a way of encouraging shared reflection about Christian conceptions of the moral life.

For more information, visit the Institute for Faith and Learning website.

by Joy Moton , student newswriter, (254) 710-6805

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