Timothy Tyson to speak on award-winning Blood Done Sign My Name

North Carolina scholar Timothy Tyson will speak on his Grawemeyer Award-winning book, Blood Don Sign My Name, at a public lecture, entitled “Miss Amy’s Witness: Why Our History of the Civil Rights Movement is (Almost) All Wrong.” The lecture will be held free of charge April 18, 2007, at 7 p.m. in Caldwell Chapel on the campus of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. In addition to the lecture, Tyson will speak with students from the Seminary and University campuses and during the Seminary chapel hour at 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 19. This is also open to the public. Traveling with him is North Carolina gospel singer Mary D. Williams, who will perform the title song, “Blood Done Sign My Name,” and a medley of other spirituals.

For the full story:
http://www.lpts.edu/News-Events/article.asp?intid=190

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James Hyde is selected for Kentucky Marriage and Family Therapy Award

The Kentucky Association for Marriage & Family Therapy (KAMFT) is pleased to announce its award winners for 2007, including James A Hyde, PhD, director of the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He has been selected to receive a Distinguished Contributions and Lifetime Achievement Award at the KAMFT banquet on April 19.

For the full story:
http://www.lpts.edu/News-Events/article.asp?intID=188

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Four LPTS alums receive 2007 Distinguished Alum Awards during annual reunion

Since 1986, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary has presented 80 alums with the Distinguished Alum Award that celebrates excellence in a variety of ministerial fields, including the pastoral ministries, seminary and denominational leadership, publishing, social and ethical activism, pastoral counseling, and teaching. On March 13, four more alums were added to the distinguished list as they were recognized for their vision, accomplishments, and leadership in their respective callings.

Learn more about the 2007 Distinguished Alums: William J. Carl III (73); Marian McClure (95); K.C. Ptomey (67); David A. Steere (56):
http://www.lpts.edu/News-Events/article.asp?intID=189

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Download lectures and sermons on Pastoral Care in Death and Dying

The lectures and sermons from the 2007 Festival of Theology are available for audio download on the Seminary website. The Festival speakers included Joretta Marshall, professor of pastoral theology and care at Eden Theological Seminary; and Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology and Fellow of Berkeley College, at Yale University, and sermons by Dale P. Andrews, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology at Boston University School of Theology and former LPTS associate professor of homiletics and pastoral theology, and Lynn Gant March, LPTS alumna (MDiv ’81; DMin ’87). 

Joretta Marshall - Greenhoe Lectures
Finitude and Unfinished Business
Forgiveness and Beyond

Nicholas Wolterstorff - Caldwell Lectures
Understanding Grief
Living with Grief

Dale P. Andrews - Festival Preacher
Unbind the Dead
Asleep with Grief

Lynn Gant March - Alum Preacher
Life After Death: Living Through Grief

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