The Life, Character, and Legacy of Billy Graham: UMO’s Annual Harrison Lecture

MOUNT OLIVE—The University of Mount Olive (UMO) will host the Vivian B. Harrison Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, October 8, in Rodgers Chapel. Dr. Grant Wacker, the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Christian History at Duke University, will be the guest lecturer. He will speak on the life, character, and legacy of Billy Graham in three parts.

Wacker is the author or co-editor of nine books, including Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture (2001), and America’s Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation (2014), published by Harvard University Press. A winner of three teaching awards, he is past president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, past president of the American Society of Church History, and a former senior editor of Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture. Wacker lives with his wife, Katherine, in Cary, NC, where they are active members of First Cary United Methodist

The lecture series is scheduled to begin at 2 pm, with each of the three sessions lasting approximately an hour and 15 minutes. There will be a dinner break between 5 and 7 pm, with the last lecture beginning at 7 pm.

The Reverend Frank R. Harrison established the Harrison Lecture in memory of his late wife, Vivian, who graduated from Mount Olive College. The purpose of the Vivian B. Harrison Lecture is to provide a medium for continuing education for the ministers and laypersons of North Carolina. The Vivian Harrison Endowed Fund provides funding for this event.

For more information, please contact Dr. Robert Neal Cox at rcox@umo.edu.

The University of Mount Olive is a private institution rooted in the liberal arts tradition with defining Christian values. The University was founded by the Convention of Original Free Will Baptists. For more information, visit www.umo.edu.

—Rhonda Jessup, Director of Public Relations