Historical Mendenhall Lectures
Mendenhall through the ages
The Mendenhall Lecture is an event that has taken place since 1913.
Below is a list of Mendenhall Lecturers from 1913 - Present:
| Year | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 1913 | Edwin H. Hughes |
| 1914 | George P. Eckman |
| 1915 | J.R. Mott |
| 1917 | Francis J. McConnell |
| 1918 | William H. P. Faunce |
| 1919 | John Kelman |
| 1920 | Ernest F. Tittle |
| 1921 | Charles R. Brown |
| 1922 | William F. McDowell |
| 1924 | Albert C. Knudson |
| 1925 | Lucius H. Bugbee |
| 1926 | Francis J. McConnell |
| 1927 | Edwin A. Hughes |
| Robert G. McCutchan | |
| Peter Lutkin and others | |
| 1929 | Harry N. Wieman |
| 1932 | Charles McConnell |
| 1933 | Walter E. Bundy |
| Ralph W. Sockman | |
| Ivan L.Holt, Edwin | |
| Lewis, Louis | |
| Untermeyer, Henry H | |
| Crane, and Edgar Blake | |
| 1936 | Conference on Preaching |
| 1938 | Paul A. Schilpp |
| 1940 | Georgia E.Harkness |
| 1941 | Earl B. Marlatt |
| 1942 | Franklin S. Hickman |
| 1943 | Roy L. Smith |
| 1954 | Gerald A.Kennedy |
| 1955 | Walter E. Bundy |
| 1956 | Ralph W. Sockman |
| 1957 | Harold A. Bosley |
| 1958 | Francis G. Ensley |
| 1959 | Hedley W. Plunkett |
| 1960 | Nels Ferre |
| 1961 | Howard Thurman |
| 1962 | L. Harold DeWolf |
| 1963 | Eugene C. Blake |
| 1964 | Joseph Sittler |
| 1965 | Peter A.Bertocci |
| 1966 | Joseph Haroutunian |
| 1967 | Julian N. Hartt |
| 1968 | William Stringfellow |
| 1969 | Colin W. Williams |
| 1970 | Langdon Gilkey |
| 1971 | Huston Smith |
| 1973 | Albert C. Outler |
| 1974 | J. Robert Nelson |
| 1975 | Cynthia C. Wedel |
| 1977 | Rollo May |
| 1979 | David B. Greene |
| 1982 | Neal F. Fisher |
| 1983 | Arthur R. Peacocke |
| 1984 | Walter Brueggemann |
| 1985 | W. Edward Farley |
| 1986 | Rosemary Radford Ruether |
| 1988 | Stanley M. Hauerwas |
| 1989 | John B. Cobb, Jr. |
| 1990 | James A. Forbes, Jr. |
| 1991 | Phyllis Trible |
| 1992 | Parker J. Palmer |
| 1993 | Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer |
| 1994 | Matthew Fox |
| 1995 | George Marsden |
| 1996 | Karen Armstrong |
| 1997 | Neil Postman |
| 1999 | Luke T. Johnson |
| 2000 | Peter van Inwagen |
| 2001 | Peter Gomes |
| 2002 | Parker J. Palmer |
| 2002 | Jane I. Smith |
| 2003 | John Shelby Spong |
| 2003 | Philip Gulley and James Mulholland |
| 2004 | Elaine Pagels |
| 2005 | William Willimon |
| 2005 | Marcus Borg |
| 2006 | Larry Dossey |
| 2006 | J.F. Haught |
| 2007 | Leonard Sweet |
| 2008 | John Roth |
| 2008 | Miguel De La Torre |
| 2009 | Tom Krattenmaker |
| 2010 | Michael Zimmerman |
| 2011 | Kristen Leslie |
| 2012 | Samuel Freedman |
| 2013 | L. Gregory Jones |
| 2014 | Otis Moss, III |
| 2016 | Emilie Townes |
| 2016 | Candida Moss |
| 2017 | Krista Tippett |
| 2019 | William Barber II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove |
| 2020 | Austin Channing Brown |
| 2021 | James K.A. Smith |
| 2023 | Otis Moss III, CeCe Jones Davis, Shane Claiborne, and Antoinette Jones |
| 2024 | Andre Henry, Brian Zahnd, Pamela Cooper-White and Andrew Whitehead |