Seton Hill University plans lecture with Georgetown theologian, publisher
Jim Wallis, founding director of the Georgetown University Center on Faith and Justice, will present a lecture at Seton Hill University on April 18.
The 2024 Sister Mary Schmidt Lecture presentation will be held at 7 p.m. in Cecilian Hall in the administration building at Seton Hill.
Wallis will discuss “Peace as a Response to Violence” and the lecture is free and open to the public.
Wallis is a public theologian, preacher and ethics and public life commentator. He served on President Barack Obama’s White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and has taught faith and public life courses at Harvard and Georgetown University. He also serves as a Research Fellow at the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.
He is the founder of Sojourners, a Christian media and advocacy organization that publishes a magazine of the same name.
Julia Maruca is a TribLive reporter covering health and the Greensburg and Hempfield areas. She joined the Trib in 2022 after working at the Butler Eagle covering southwestern Butler County. She can be reached at jmaruca@triblive.com.
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