The seventh annual Thomas Merton Black History Month Lecture will be presented at Hilary’s in Bellarmine University’s Horrigan Hall on Feb. 27 at 7 p.m.
M. Shawn Copeland, an associate professor of systemic theology at Boston College and a faculty member of the school’s African and African Diaspora Studies Program, will discuss “The Wound and the Witness: Merton and King and the Exercise of the Prophetic.”
Copeland was the first African American to serve as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and is a former convenor of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
