Howard Payne University’s 16^th annual Currie-Strickland Distinguished Lectures in Christian Ethics will feature guest speaker Rev. Elijah M. Brown, Ph.D., general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance.

The lectures will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, January 31, during HPU’s Chapel service in L.J. Mims Auditorium, and at 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 1, in the Richard and Wanda Jackson Conference Room of HPU’s Paul and Jane Meyer Faith and Life Leadership Center. Admission to the lectures is free, but reservations are requested. To R.S.V.P, contact HPU’s School of Christian Studies by e-mail at currie-strickland@hputx.edu or by phone at 325-649-8403.

The theme for Brown’s lectures will be “Peace in Persecution: Stories of Baptist Efforts from the Front Lines.” Brown previously served as executive vice president of 21Wilberforce as well as associate professor of religion at East Texas Baptist University, where he was founding director of the Freedom Center. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and a Ph.D. in divinity from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

Brown’s specialties lie in human rights and religious liberty. His dissertation focused on issues related to world

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