Belmont Abbey Benedictine Monastery

 

Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - “Augustine the Preacher: Can a Fourth-Century African Bishop Preach to us Today?”

Speaker:
David Julen, Pastor - First Baptist Church of Cramerton
Location:
This lecture will be held at the Student Commons at 7:30 PM
Event Details:
Rev. Julen was born in Kentucky but raised in North Carolina.  He holds a B.A. degree from Mars Hill College, a Masters of Divinity from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and a Doctor of Ministry from Beeson Divinity School at Samford University.

He has been the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Cramerton for the past ten years. Previously he had been a pastor of churches in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Rev. Julen has been active in civic affairs in Gaston County and served on the Board of Gaston Together, and other civic and church-related organizations.

He and his wife Lydia have been married for 15 years and have four children: Ben, 12; Clay, 10; Sam, 7, and Ellie, 5. 

Thursday, April 3, 2008 - "Jesus, Peter and the Pope: A Ministry of Peter for All Christians"

Speaker:
Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB
Location:
This lecture will be held at the Student Commons at 7:30 PM
Event Details:
The Most Reverend J. Michael Miller is a native of Ottawa. He entered the Congregation of St. Basil in 1965 and was ordained 10 years later.

He holds a bachelor’s degree at the University of Toronto (1969) and a Master’s from the University of Wisconsin (1970), both in Latin American Studies. In 1974 he completed his Master of Divinity at the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto, and then spent from 1974-79 in Rome, where he completed his licentiate and doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

From 1992 to 1997 Miller worked in the English-language section of the Secretariat of State of the Holy See and on July 1, 1997 he became the seventh president of the University of St. Thomas in Houston which he held until 2004.

Archbishop Miller is a specialist on the papacy and modern papal teaching. He has published seven books and more than 100 articles, scholarly, popular and journalistic.