Rev. Billy Vaughan, Project Director of the Center for Faith and Imagination at MTS, remembered Gene Davenport, longtime Lambuth professor and newspaper columnist, in the Jackson Sun:  I had no idea what “civil religion” was when I arrived at Lambuth College in 1972. I’m fairly sure I assumed it was about religious people who are civil […]

For the entire month of September, professor and director of the Methodist House of Studies Dr. Michael Turner will be leading a series at St. John’s United Methodist Church entitled “‘No Holiness but Social Holiness’: How Methodism’s past can inform its future.” This series will take a deep dive into the history of The United […]

Reverend James Lawson, an ordained United Methodist minister and one of the most significant leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, spoke to MTS students and community members at Lindenwood Christian Church on April 3rd, 2018, one day before Memphis will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination here. King described Lawson as […]