Lecture @ Trinity U: Jewish Prophetic Voices for Justice in Israel/Palestine

On Wednesday, March 25 at 7:30 pm in Northrup Hall 040, the Trinity University Department of Religion will host a talk by Marc H. Ellis entitled “Jewish Prophetic Voices for Justice in Israel/Palestine.” Dr. Ellis is the author of over 100 articles and 20 books, including Ending Auschwitz: The Future of Jewish and Christian Life (1994); Judaism Does Not Equal Israel with forward by Desmond Tutu (2009); The Future of the Prophetic (2014); and Burning Children: A Jewish View of the War in Gaza (2014). His writings deal with Jewish liberation theology, post- Holocaust ethics, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations, the land of Israel/Palestine, and peace and justice studies.

He retired as director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University in 2012, and is currently a visiting lecturer at universities around the world. The lecture is sponsored by the Departments of Religion, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology & Anthropology, and the Lecturers and Visiting Scholars Committee.

It is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Department of Religion at (210) 999-8426