Yale Prof. & Noted Author Dale Martin to deliver the inaugural Boswell Lecture in Berkeley this Spring

In 1983 John Boswell published his path-breaking and agenda-setting work, "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality." Twenty-five years later The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS) hosted a conference on the PSR campus to mark that important work and to chart the future of this important scholarship. On that occasion CLGS was pleased to establish the John E. Boswell Lectureship Fund, which will support excellence in LGBTQ religious scholarship by bringing pioneering scholars to the PSR campus to share their latest research.

CLGS is pleased to announce that the inaugural Boswell Lecture will be delivered by Dale Martin, the Woolsey Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University. Professor Martin is the author of, among other books, "The Corinthian Body," "Inventing Superstition: from the Hippocratics to the Christians," and most recently, "Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation." The lecture will be offered in late April or early May, 2008.

We first met Dale when we were both parishioners of Christ Church in New Haven, CT and look forward to hearing him again. We'll post more information as it becomes available.