Lecture series:

• April 29, 2004, Dr. Dale Soden from Whitworth and Dr. Patricia Killen from Pacific Lutheran University co-presented the findings from their new book Religion and Public Life in the Northwest: The None Zone.
  
  
• April 1-2, 2004, Kathleen Norris, award winning poet and writer Kathleen Norris presented two lectures on the idea of vocation.
  
  
• February 17, 2004, Rev. Dr. Samuel McKinney, The Struggle for Civil Rights in Seattle: The Role of the Black Church. Rev. McKinney served for forty years as senior pastor at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Seattle, Washington. A schoolmate of Martin Luther King, Jr. at Morehouse College, McKinney was instrumental in the civil rights movement in Seattle in the 1960s.
  
  
• February 12, 2004, members of the Whitworth faculty shared their beliefs about how faith traditions address the issue of human identity. Professors, including Presbyterians, Catholics, Lutherans, Baptists and others, will speak about the underlying assumptions regarding whether we are naturally good or evil, rational or irrational, and free or, in some sense, determined. This panel is designed to share the theological richness as well as the diversity found within the Whitworth faculty.
  
  
• February 10, 2004, Stephen T. Davis, '62, Faith and the Human Condition. Davis is the Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, in California. He is the author of some 13 books and more than 50 articles in philosophical and theological journals.
  
  

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