Emilie Townes presents Candlemas Lecture

Emilie Townes presents Candlemas Lecture

Theologian Emilie M. Townes, an American Baptist clergywoman, will deliver the annual Candlemas Lecture on February 4 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. Townes is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Religion and Black Studies at Boston University. Previously, she served as dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School, where she was the University Distinguished Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society.  She also has taught at Yale Divinity School, Union Theolog…