Guest Preacher Willie Jennings This Sunday
At our service this Sunday, February 19, at 11:00 a.m., we will welcome as our guest preacher the Rev. Dr. Willie James Jennings, associate professor of systematic theology and Africana studies at Yale University Divinity School. A graduate of Duke University, Dr. Jennings is a systematic theologian who teaches in the areas of theology, black church, and Africana studies, as well as post-colonial and race theory. The author of a number of books, he wrote The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race, which has become a standard text read in colleges, seminaries, and universities.
Also at the service, the Duke Chapel Choir will sing three movements from composer Robert Ray's Gospel Mass. Ray was a pianist, composer, and conductor, and professor emeritus of music at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. In his Gospel Mass, he employs a variety of techniques and motives derived from Black gospel, sometimes interpolating additional text for soloists while the choir sings an English version of the traditional Mass texts.
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