Word: belden
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...Khalid Mohammed delivering a Hillel-funded lecture on the virtues of Judaism. Inconceivable, right? You might be surprised, however, to know that a lecture will be delivered at Memorial Church next week that will likely be just as bad as the above hypotheticals. I refer to the William Belden Noble Lecture, which this year is being given by retired Episcopal bishop John Shelby Spong...
First, a little background. In 1898, Nannie Noble established the William Belden Noble Lecture Series in honor of her late husband, a much-loved Episcopalian who had been a standout Harvard College student and who was studying for the ministry. The purpose? "[T]o continue the work of William Belden Noble, whose supreme desire was to extend the influence of Jesus as 'the Way, and the Truth and the Life,' and to make known the meaning of His words, 'I am come that they might have Life, and that they might have it more abundantly...