Christian Presence and African Response

Professor Ogbu Kalu, the Henry Winter Luce Professor of world Christianity and mission at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, will speak on “Patterns of Christian Presence and African Responses” 3:30 p.m. Feb. 24 in Hieronymus Lounge, Kerrwood Hall on the upper Westmont campus. Kalu also will speak in Westmont’s chapel 10:30 a.m. Feb. 25. Both events are free and open to the public.

The lecture is part of the World Christianity lecture series, which seeks to draw the attention of students, faculty and interested community members to the global presence of Christianity, particularly in the non-Western world. Refreshments will be served.

Kalu, a native of Nigeria, served as professor of church history at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, for 23 years and as an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria. He was educated in Canada and the United States and has taught in the U.S., Korea, Nigeria, Edinburgh, Canada and South Africa. Kalu has published and edited 16 books, including “Power, Poverty, and Prayer: The Challenges of Poverty and Pluralism in African Christianity 1960-1996” and more than 150 academic articles. Most of his research focuses on African Christianity, African church history, African traditional religions, English history, historiography and theology.

For more information, please contact Assistant Religious Studies Professor Charles Farhadian at (805) 565-7094. For directions, visit www.westmont.edu.