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Dr. James Logan presents Keeney Peace Lecture April 11

Speaker is director of African and African American Studies, Earldom

Author and professor Dr. James Logan will present “The Art of Hip Hop, Religion and Culture in Civil Society” during Forum at 11 a.m. on April 11 in Yoder Recital Hall. 

This is the 2017 Keeney Peace Lecture at Bluffton University. The event is free and open to the public. 

Logan is a professor of religion and professor and director of African and African American Studies at Earlham (Richmond, Ind.) College. His teaching and research cover many areas including relationships between religion, ethics and politics in civil and public life.

Logan has published several works and is currently working on the manuscript, “The Limits of Perfection: Race, Nonviolence and Anabaptist Peace Church Assimilation into the American Social Order.”

Bluffton’s Keeney Peace Lectureship was established in 1978 by the family of William Sr. and Kathryn Keeney to express appreciation for Bluffton’s influence and to strengthen the continuing peace witness among the community.