July 8, 2007
Guest – Robert Franklin
Program:
Raise Her for God
Dr.
Robert Franklin is a scholar-preacher and insightful educator as
well as a former seminary program administrator and foundation
executive. He has served on the faculties of his alma maters, the
University of Chicago and Harvard University Divinity schools, and at
Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, and Emory University's Candler School
of Theology where he gained a national reputation as director of Black
Church Studies. He then assumed the presidency of the ITC, and served as
program officer at the Ford Foundation where he had primary
responsibility for grants to African American churches engaged in
secular social service delivery, and for advising the president of the
foundation about future funding for religion and public life. His major
fields of study include social ethics, psychology, and African American
religion.
Dr.
Franklin served as the Chautauqua Institution "Theologian in Residence"
for the 2005 season, and he provides commentary for "All Things
Considered", a National Public Radio program. |
