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.

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Submissions from 2023

2023 Alfred S. Palmer Lecture - "The Divine Economy vs Racial Capitalism: Identity Politics, Antiracism and the Redemption of All Things", Jonathan Tran

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

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2019 Alfred S. Palmer Lecture - "The Land as Kin: Renewing our Imagination", Ellen F. Davis

Submissions from 2017

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2017 Alfred S. Palmer Lecture - "Faith in the Visual Age: Can You See God?", Ralph Watkins

Submissions from 2016

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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

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From Inclusion to Belonging: A Practical Theology of Disability and Humanness, John Swinton

Submissions from 2011

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2011 Palmer Chapel, J. Kameron Carter

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2011 Palmer Faculty Luncheon, J. Kameron Carter

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2011 Palmer Lecture, J. Kameron Carter

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2011 Palmer Theology Student Union Luncheon, J. Kameron Carter

Submissions from 2009

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Christian Solidarity: The Forging of a Modern Ecumenical Tradition, Ephraim Radner

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Is Christ Divided? Locating the Possibility of the True Church, Ephraim Radner

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The Church's Witness of Reconciliation in the Twenty-First Century, Ephraim Radner

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The Meaning of the Church's Love: A Scriptural Phenomenology of the Church, Ephraim Radner

Submissions from 2008

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How Should We Study Theology?, Kallistos Ware

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My Journey to the Orthodox Church, Kallistos Ware

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Salvation in Christ: The Orthodox Approach, Kallistos Ware

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What Is Prayer?, Kallistos Ware

Submissions from 2007

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God and the Art of Happiness, Ellen Charry

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Proverbs' Vision of Happiness, Ellen Charry

Submissions from 2006

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The Arts of Holy Living: Wesley, Holiness, and the Means of Grace, Rebeka Miles

Submissions from 2002

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How Is God Beautiful? From Augustine to Arminius and Beyond, Clark Pinnock

Submissions from 2001

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Church Leaders Forum: Leading the World on the Road of Reconciliation: The Conversion of the Imagination, Richard Hays and Rob Wall

Submissions from 2000

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The Apprentice's New Clothes, Greg Jones

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The Grace of Daily Obligation, Greg Jones

Submissions from 1996

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Orthopathy (Part 3 of 3), Theodore Runyon

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The New Creation: The Wesleyan Distinctive (Part 2 of 3), Theodore Runyon

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Wesleyan Theology on Today's Issues (Part 1 of 3; Original Title Unavailable), Theodore Runyon

Submissions from 1995

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The Christian Colony (Part 2 of 3), William Willimon

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The Christian in a Post-Christian World (Part 3 of 3), William Willimon

Submissions from 1983

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An Old Example (Part 5 of 5), Dennis Kinlaw

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Christ's Bid for Faith (Part 1 of 5), Dennis Kinlaw

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He Patterns the Way (Part 4 of 5), Dennis Kinlaw

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We Discover His Identity (Part 2 of 5), Dennis Kinlaw

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We See Ourselves (Part 3 of 5), Dennis Kinlaw

Submissions from 1980

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Can These Bones Live? (Part 2 of 2, Original Title Unavailable), Wayne McCown

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With God, There Is Hope (Part 1 of 2), Wayne McCown