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Dr. Jonathan L. Walton, President of Princeton Theological Seminary, delivered BYU’s Seventh Annual World Interfaith Harmony Week Lecture titled “I’d Like to Fly Far Away! Black Religion and the Quest for Black Freedom.” Walton explains that he will speak to the ways in which “spiritual imaginations, across faith traditions, have provided powerful resources for redefining notions of dignity and freedom.” Join us for a memorable and inspiring evening in the Hinckley Center Assembly Hall.

Jonathan Lee Walton, Ph.D., is a social ethicist and religious educator known for engaging American evangelical traditions. On January 1, 2023, he became the eighth president of Princeton Theological Seminary. Walton is the author of two books, A Lens of Love: Reading the Bible in Its World for Our World (Westminster John Knox Press), and Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism (NYU Press). Prior to becoming president of Princeton Seminary, Walton served as the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University and as dean of the Divinity School at Wake Forest University.

Walton has published widely across various academic journals, books, magazines, and newspapers. His insights have been featured in the New York Times, CNN, Time Magazine, and PBS. in reviewing Walton's book, A Lens of Love, renowned Black scholar Cornel West said Walton “is one of the very few grand figures in American culture who is both public intellectual and prophetic preacher. His brilliant work and visionary words are legendary at Harvard and throughout the country and world. This timely book is another testament to his calling rooted in the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Benjamin Elijah Mays, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Fannie Lou Hamer.”