Speaker: Dr. Johnny Bernard Hill

Dr. Johnny Bernard Hill is the Leon W. Watts II Visiting Scholar in Black Theology and the Black Church and Senior Pastor of the historic Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church. He also serves as Director of Corporate and Foundation Engagement at North Carolina Central University. Dr. Hill previously held the role as Dean of Shaw University Divinity School and Professor of Theology. He is author of Prophetic Rage: A Postcolonial Theology of Liberation (Eerdmans Publishers, 2013) and The First Black President: Barack Obama, Race, Politics, and the American Dream (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

While serving as Dean, Dr. Hill founded the Black Church Leadership Academy, with over $2 Million Dollars from the Lilly Endowment partnership. He was also founder and inaugural Director of the Center for Racial and Social Justice at Shaw University as well. He was Department Chair and Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina; and held the position as Special Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar and Dean at The Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

After finishing Morehouse College, he completed the Master of Divinity degree and Master of Theology degree at Duke Divinity School; and later the PhD in Philosophical Theology from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary at Northwestern University. Dr. Hill is also author of The Theology of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Desmond Mpilo Tutu (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); and building The World House, a network of activists, faith leaders, policy makers, and freedom fighters, continuing Dr. King’s vision of the beloved community. He is the proud father of two children, Regan and Jonathan.

Dates: Friday, February 10, 2023, 7:00-8:00 pm EST

Saturday, February 11, 2023, 10:00-11:00am EST

This event is virtual. See the Zoom links below to attend the Lecture Series.

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Friday, February 10, 2023, 7:00 pm EST

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