An annual event at SPU since 1978, the Palmer Lecture Series "seeks to bring the best minds and hearts in Wesleyan theology and biblical studies to campus to discuss the Christian faith from a Wesleyan perspective." The lectureship is held in honor of Alfred Palmer, a pastoral leader in Western Washington for more than half a century.
For more information, visit spu.edu/palmer.
Submissions from 2023
Submissions from 2021
2021 Alfred S. Palmer Lecture - “Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope”, Canon Esau McCaulley
Submissions from 2019
2019 Alfred S. Palmer Lecture - "The Land as Kin: Renewing our Imagination", Ellen F. Davis
Submissions from 2017
2017 Alfred S. Palmer Lecture - "Faith in the Visual Age: Can You See God?", Ralph Watkins
Submissions from 2016
2016 Palmer Lecture - "The Dialogue of Faith and Culture: Why the Arts Remain Essential", Eduardo Fernández
Submissions from 2015
2015 Palmer Lecture - "How to Eat Until We Are Full: Idolatry and Ways to Avoid It", Stephen Fowl
Submissions from 2012
From Inclusion to Belonging: A Practical Theology of Disability and Humanness, John Swinton
Submissions from 2011
2011 Palmer Chapel, J. Kameron Carter
2011 Palmer Faculty Luncheon, J. Kameron Carter
2011 Palmer Lecture, J. Kameron Carter
2011 Palmer Theology Student Union Luncheon, J. Kameron Carter
Submissions from 2009
Christian Solidarity: The Forging of a Modern Ecumenical Tradition, Ephraim Radner
Is Christ Divided? Locating the Possibility of the True Church, Ephraim Radner
The Church's Witness of Reconciliation in the Twenty-First Century, Ephraim Radner
The Meaning of the Church's Love: A Scriptural Phenomenology of the Church, Ephraim Radner
Submissions from 2008
How Should We Study Theology?, Kallistos Ware
My Journey to the Orthodox Church, Kallistos Ware
Salvation in Christ: The Orthodox Approach, Kallistos Ware
What Is Prayer?, Kallistos Ware
Submissions from 2007
God and the Art of Happiness, Ellen Charry
Proverbs' Vision of Happiness, Ellen Charry
Submissions from 2006
The Arts of Holy Living: Wesley, Holiness, and the Means of Grace, Rebeka Miles
Submissions from 2002
How Is God Beautiful? From Augustine to Arminius and Beyond, Clark Pinnock
Submissions from 2001
Church Leaders Forum: Leading the World on the Road of Reconciliation: The Conversion of the Imagination, Richard Hays and Rob Wall
Submissions from 2000
The Apprentice's New Clothes, Greg Jones
The Grace of Daily Obligation, Greg Jones
Submissions from 1996
Orthopathy (Part 3 of 3), Theodore Runyon
The New Creation: The Wesleyan Distinctive (Part 2 of 3), Theodore Runyon
Wesleyan Theology on Today's Issues (Part 1 of 3; Original Title Unavailable), Theodore Runyon
Submissions from 1995
The Christian Colony (Part 2 of 3), William Willimon
The Christian in a Post-Christian World (Part 3 of 3), William Willimon
Submissions from 1983
An Old Example (Part 5 of 5), Dennis Kinlaw
Christ's Bid for Faith (Part 1 of 5), Dennis Kinlaw
He Patterns the Way (Part 4 of 5), Dennis Kinlaw
We Discover His Identity (Part 2 of 5), Dennis Kinlaw
We See Ourselves (Part 3 of 5), Dennis Kinlaw
Submissions from 1980
Can These Bones Live? (Part 2 of 2, Original Title Unavailable), Wayne McCown
With God, There Is Hope (Part 1 of 2), Wayne McCown