2025 Payne/Harvey Lecture:
The Very Rev. Lydia Kelsey Bucklin
Lecture title: Not my Grandfather’s Church: Forming Leaders for Today
Please join the community of Seminary of the Southwest for a talk by the Very Rev. Lydia Kelsey Bucklin, president and dean of the Episcopal Divinity School. She also serves as Canon Theologian in the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan and Senior Advisor to the Mutual Ministry Initiative at Virginia Theological Seminary.
View the live-stream for the event here.
Hosted by Seminary of the Southwest’s Board of Trustees, and led by the students of Seminary of the Southwest, the Payne/Harvey Lecture is an annual event that focuses on mission and the relationship between pastoral leadership and contemporary issues confronting the church. It honors the Rt. Rev. Claude E. Payne, former chair of the seminary’s board and bishop of the Diocese of Texas, retired, and the late Dean Hudnall Harvey, who died unexpectedly in 1972, after serving as the seminary’s dean for just five years.
Over the years, these Lectures have become a lasting and vital resource for the seminary, bringing important and diverse theological voices to our campus.
