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2022
The Radical Reformation and the Makings of the Modern World.
Brad S. Gregory presented “The Radical Reformation and the Makings of the Modern World.” Gregory is Henkels Family College Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, where he has taught since 2003. From 1996 to 2003, he taught at Stanford University. He specializes in the history of Christianity in Europe during the Reformation era and on the long-term influence of the Reformation era on the modern world. Gregory earned his Ph.D. in history at Princeton University and was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. He also has two degrees in philosophy from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. He has received two teaching awards at Stanford and three more at Notre Dame. Gregory is the author of the award-winning books Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe (Harvard, 1999), his first, and The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society (Belknap, 2012). His most recent book is Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts that Continue to Shape Our World (Harper, 2017).
2021
Jan Kraybill, This is Our Story, This is Our Song: The Power of Music in Community
Jan Kraybill of Kansas City presented “This is Our Story, This is Our Song: The Power of Music in Community.” Kraybill serves as organ conservator at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, organist-in-residence at Community of Christ International Headquarters in Independence, Mo., and organist at Village on Antioch Presbyterian Church in Overland Park, Kan. Throughout her career Kraybill has performed as both a solo and collaborative musician, designed and led international hymn festivals, taught a variety of music workshops, and performed in at least a half a dozen countries on four continents. Among the many ensembles she has been a part of are the GRAMMY-winning Kansas City Chorale and the GRAMMY-nominated Kansas City Symphony and Symphony Chorus.
2020
César García, Towards an Anabaptist Catholicity
César García, Towards an Anabaptist Catholicity Body: César García, general secretary of Mennonite World Conference in Kitchener, Ontario, presented “Towards an Anabaptist Catholicity.” Mennonite World Conference (MWC) is a global communion that serves some 1.5 million members around the world. Originally from Bogotá, Colombia, César has been a church planter, pastor, and professor of Bible and Theology. Prior to his election, he chaired the Iglesias Hermanos Menonitas de Colombia (Mennonite Brethren Churches of Colombia) and served as secretary of the MWC Mission Commission.