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Spring 2025 Sr. Thea Bowman Lecture Featuring Rev. Dr. James Forbes, Jr. The Office of Mission & Ministry hosts the Sr. Thea Bowman Lecture to celebrate the life and legacy of Sr. Thea Bowman. This annual lecture highlights African-American Spirituality within Catholic and Protestant communities and deepens collaboration, support, and unity. We are pleased to welcome Rev. Dr. James Forbes, Jr., as this year’s lecturer. Speaker: Rev. Dr. James Forbes, Jr. is the National Minister of the Drum Major Institute, Senior Minister Emeritus of The Riverside Church, the Harry Emerson Fosdick Distinguished Professor at Union Theological Seminary, and president of the Healing of the Nations Foundation. A highly acclaimed author, scholar, internationally renowned speaker, and recipient of 14 honorary degrees, Dr. Forbes is affectionately called “the preacher’s preacher” in national and international religious circles because of his extensive preaching career and his charismatic style. The Sr. Thea Bowman Lecture Series: In 2022, Georgetown University named its chapel in Copley Hall the Servant of God Sr. Thea Bowman Chapel in honor of Sr. Thea Bowman, F.S.P.A. The Office of Mission & Ministry hosts the Sr. Thea Bowman Lecture to celebrate the life and legacy of Sr. Thea Bowman. This annual lecture highlights African-American Spirituality within Catholic and Protestant communities and deepens collaboration, support, and unity. Sr. Thea Bowman was a Catholic religious sister, scholar, singer, and teacher. Raised in a small Mississippi town, she converted to Catholicism at the age of 12 and later joined the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. Sr. Thea lived out her Catholic faith and African American identity through her ministry of evangelization, education, and action for justice. The term "Servant of God" refers to Sr. Thea's official designation as a person in the first stage of canonization in the Roman Catholic Church.