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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@mail.epicom.org>]

Daybook, Episcopal News Service

January 11, 2005 - Tuesday: To Note

Gomes speaker at Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest Harvey
Lectures

[ENS] The Rev. Peter J. Gomes will be the featured lecturer at the 
Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest's (ETSS) 2005 Harvey 
Lectures on Monday, February 7, in Austin, Texas.

Gomes is widely regarded as one of America's most distinguished 
preachers and Christian thinkers. His 4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. lectures in 
Knapp Auditorium are open to the public without charge and he will also
preach at the Monday noon service in Christ Chapel.

The Harvey Lectures, organized annually by seminarians, honor the late 
Hudnall Harvey, dean of ETSS from 1968 to his death in 1972.

Gomes, an American Baptist minister, has been Plummer Professor of 
Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in Harvard University's Memorial 
Church since 1974. He is regarded as the symbolic center of Harvard's 
spiritual life and teaches in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and in 
the Harvard Divinity School.

A past recipient of Harvard University's Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award,
Gomes is an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College in the University of
Cambridge, England, where the Gomes Lectureship is established in his name.
Twenty-seven colleges and universities have awarded Gomes an honorary
doctoral degree.

Among his best-selling books are Strength for the Journey: Biblical 
Wisdom for Daily Living (2003); The Good Life: Truths That Last in 
Times of Need (2002); The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and 
Heart and Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living; and ten volumes of
sermons.

Gomes also appeared in a February 2004 segment of CBS: 60 Minutes that 
explored the "Rise of the Righteous Army." The February 2003 issue of 
Sojourner Magazine contained his article "Patriotism Is Not Enough: 
Christian Conscience In a Time of War."

For information on the lecture visit ETSS at 
http://www.etss.edu/news.shtml

Note: The following titles are available from the Episcopal 
Book/Resource Center, 815 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10017; 
800-334-7626; http://www.episcopalbookstore.org/.

* To Read: SERMONS: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living by Peter J. Gomes 
(New York, New York: Harper Collins, 1999; 234 pages; $13.95.)

 From the publisher: The man Time magazine hailed as one of America's 
finest preachers presents a collection of forty timeless addresses to 
guide us through the year. With his characteristic eloquence and 
compassion, quoting from scripture as well as from T.S. Eliot and Woody
Allen, Gomes offers us the tools we need to understand the wisdom of the
Bible and the joy and inspiration it can bring to everyday life.

The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes is an American Baptist minister 
and has been Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister 
in Harvard University's Memorial Church since 1974.

Among his best-selling books are Strength for the Journey: Biblical 
Wisdom for Daily Living; The Good Life: Truths That Last in Times of 
Need; The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart and ten 
volumes of sermons.

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