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38th Annual Robison Lecture to feature Christian Theological Seminary faculty member
Tuesday, February 09, 2010

CANTON, Mo. – Culver-Stockton College’s annual Robison Lecture in Religion is set for Tuesday, February 23, 2010. The lecture will feature Dr. Ron Allen from the Christian Theological Seminary (CTS), Indianapolis, Ind., giving a lecture titled, “Report from the Pew: What listeners say they value in preaching.” The lecture will be at 7 p.m. in Merillat Chapel in the Alexander Campbell Performing Arts Center, located on C-SC’s campus.

Allen teaches preaching and Gospels and Letters at CTS where he has been since 1982. Prior to that he and his spouse, the Reverend Linda McKiernan-Allen, were co-ministers of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Grand Island, Neb. He has published 35 books, most recently, A Faith of Your Own: Naming What You Really Believe and Preaching and the Other. He recently directed a study of people who listen to sermons to determine the qualities in preaching that encourage them to pay attention. Allen and his spouse have five children: Canaan (28), Genesis (25), Moriah (22), Barek (22), and Sabbath (18).

The Robison Lectureship in Religion was inaugurated in 1972 through an endowment gift by Dr. Robison's daughter, Dr. Georgia Robison Beale. The lectureship provides for an annual lecture in some area of religious scholarship and for the printing and distribution of the lecture. The lectures have been distributed to friends and surviving relatives of Dr. Robison, to deans and professors of religion in Disciples institutions of higher education, and to Disciples ministers in the tri-states.

Henry Barton Robison was a native of Georgia and educated at Transylvania College, College of the Bible (LTS), and the Divinity School of the University of Chicago (Ph.D. in 1907 with a major in New Testament and a minor in Old Testament). After brief pastorates in Texas and Alabama, he served as professor of religion at Culver-Stockton College from 1910 to 1944.