James W. White Lecture Series at First Congregational

02/25/2026

Join us - April 24-26, 2026

06/23/2025

One our most prominent JWW Lectureship Series lecturers, Walter Brueggemann, has died. We are blessed to have had the time that we did with him, and we are grateful for his many writings and wisdom.

Click the link to hear an interview that the late theologian had with Krista Tippett. https://onbeing.org/programs/walter-brueggemann-the-prophetic-imagination/

06/11/2025

Announcing the 2026 JWW Lectureship Series: April 24-26, 2026.

Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, President of the Union Theological Seminary in New York City

Rev. Dr. Serene Jones spent seventeen years as a professor at Yale University, also chairing the Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies program in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is an
ordained minister in both the Christian Church and the United Church of Christ. Her leadership emphasizes the integration of faith with social justice, public policy, and global engagement.
Rev. Dr. Jones' writings explore themes such as feminist theology,
trauma, grace, and the role of religion in public life.
Her books include: Calvin and the Rhetoric of Piety (1995),
Feminist Theory and Christian Theology: Cartographies of
Grace (2000), Trauma and Grace: Theology in a Ruptured
World (2009), and Call it Grace: Finding Meaning in a
Fractured World (2019).

03/07/2025

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03/05/2025

Announcing the 2025 JWW Lectureship Series!
Join us in April, in Colorado Springs, for Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges!
Hosting in partnership with the Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life at UCCS.
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02/17/2025

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02/10/2025

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10/09/2024

Announcing the 2025 JWW Lectureship Series Lecturer and Dates:
Chris Hedges - April 25-27, 2025

Christopher Hedges graduated from Colgate University with a BA in English Literature and went on to receive a Master of Divinity (MDiv) from Harvard University. While at Harvard he lived in the depressed community of Roxbury in Boston where he ran a small church. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2009 from Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, California.

Hedges began work as a freelance journalist, writing for newspapers such as The Washington Post and covering the Falkland War from Buenos Aires for National Public Radio (NPR). He covered the wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala from 1983 to 1988, working from 1984 to 1988 as The Central America Bureau Chief for The Dallas Morning News. He was appointed the Middle East Bureau Chief for The Dallas Morning News in 1989.

Hedges was hired by The New York Times in 1990 and covered the
first Gulf War. He entered Kuwait with the U.S. Marine Corps and
was subsequently taken prisoner in Basra after the war by the Iraqi
Republican Guard during the Shiite uprising; he was freed after
a week. Hedges was appointed the paper’s Middle East Bureau
Chief in 1991, reporting on the atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein in the Kurdish-held parts of northern Iraq which resulted in the Iraqi leader offering a bounty for anyone who killed him, along
with other western journalists and aid workers in the region.

Hedges became the Balkan Bureau Chief for The New York Times in 1995 reporting from the besieged city of Sarajevo and later covered the war in Kosovo. He and his photographer, Wade Goddard, were the first journalists to travel with armed units of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) at the inception of the insurgency mounted against the occupying Serbs.

05/20/2024

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The Forum invites all to conclude the JWW Lectureship weekend at The Forum with a Q&A between Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley and Rev. Lee Ann Bryce.

05/03/2024

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Presenting Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley 2024 JWW Lectureship Series Kicks Off Today! May 3-5, 2024 Registration Open - Click the Link! Or Register at the Door.   PLEASE NOTE, PARKING IS AVAILABLE IN THE FOL

04/26/2024

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Schedule of Events 2024 JWW Lectureship Series May 3-5, 2024 Registration Open - Click the Link!   Schedule of Events THIS SUNDAY Sunday, April 28, 2024: 11:10 am The Forum: JWW Lectures

04/11/2024

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Have you registered yet? 2024 JWW Lectureship Series May 3-5, 2024 Registration Open - Click the Link!   Click to Register READ ALL ABOUT IT! Rev. Dr. Randy S. Woodley Rev. Dr. Woodley is a recognized