Upcoming MacKenzie Lecture Speakers
2022 Dr. Jenny Price (Repairing the Earth, Embracing Freedom Through Responsibility)
2023 Rev. Dr. Serene Jones
Previous Years’ Speakers For The MacKenzie Lecture at First Congregational/UCC Church of Boulder
2021 Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Jesus and John Wayne : The Reckoning and Where do we Go From Here)
2021 Rev. Dr. Traci Blackmon
2020 Dr. Larry Rasmussen (A Love Letter from One Geological Epoch to the Next)
2020 Anita L. Sanchez (Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times: The Four Sacred Gifts)
2019 Rev. Otis Moss (Punching Holes in the Darkness: Hope for Our Nation in Dark Times)
2018 Dr. Stewart Hoover (Religion in a Media Age)
Video of Stewart Hoover’s Lecture on 1/26/18
2017 Diana Butler Bass (Grounded: Finding God in the World)
Diana Butler Bass Lecture on 1/26/17
2016 Richard Thomson & John Gunther (Swing Low Sweet Chariot – History of Spirituals)
2015 Dr. Dan Spencer (Ecology)
2014 Emilie Townes (Womanist Perspectives on Evil and Suffering and Embracing the Spirit: Womanist Perspectives on Hope, Salvation, and Transformation)
2013 Marcus Borg (Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning)
2012 Phyllis Tickle (Emergent Christianity)
2011 Dr. Robin M. Meyers (Jesus: Galilean Sage or Supernatural Savior?: Reviving The Church)
2010
2009 Rev. Dr. Walter Brueggemann (Old Testament theology)
2008 Dr. Amy-Jill Levine
2007 Rev. Prof. Peter J. Gomes
2006 Rebecca S. Chopp
2005 Dr. J. Philip Wogaman
2004 John Dominic Crossan
2003 Rev. William R. Johnson
2002 Thomas H. Troeger
2001 Right Rev. William E. Swing
2000 Barbara Brown Zikmund
1999 Sheila Greeve Devaney