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.
