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Fry Brown gives Matthew Simpson Lecture

Oct. 1, 2009

Dr. Teresa Fry Brown will deliver the annual Matthew Simpson Lecture, entitled “Prophetic Voices Crying in the Wilderness,” Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. at Simpson College in Great Hall.

Fry Brown is the associate professor of homiletics at the Chandler School of Theology at Emory University in Georgia. She also serves as the director of black church studies.

“I’m excited to have a preacher and scholar like Dr. Fry Brown here at Simpson to share with students and the community,” said Jan Everhart, assistant professor of religion at Simpson College. “I think she’ll bring a perspective that will broaden our focus, as she comes from a very specific branch of Methodism.”

Fry Brown is an ordained Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a branch that originated in response to racism in America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She also serves as associate minister at New Bethel AME Church in Lithonia, Ga.

Fry Brown has studied at the Iliff School of Theology, the University of Denver and the University of Central Missouri. She holds a doctorate in religious and theological studies. She has been teaching in both schools and churches for more than 30 years on subjects such as homiletics, African American health and family issues, and worship. Prior to her graduate study in religion, Fry Brown was an audiologist and speech pathologist.

Last Updated: 9/24/09