Loring Sabin Ensign Lectureship
The Loring Sabin Ensign Lectureship in Contemporary Interpretation of Religious Issues was founded in 1994 by church members and other friends to honor Loring S. Ensign, M.Div. 1951, for his twenty-five years of service as pastor of the Southport Congregational Church (Connecticut).
2022
Scott Thumma, Professor of Sociology of Religion, Hartford International University. An Endemic Church: Exploring Its Perils and Possibilities, Yale Divinity School, October 12, 2022.
2020
James Martin, Jesuit Priest and Editor-at-Large of America. Building a Bridge: Welcoming LGBTQ Catholics, Yale Divinity School, October 6, 2020.
2019
Monica Toft, Professor of International Politics, Tufts University.The Global Resurgence of Religion and How We Missed It, Yale Divinity School, October 16, 2019.
2018
Melissa Rogers, lawyer and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, Brookings Institution. Trading Kennedy for Kavanaugh: What’s at Stake for Religious Freedom?, Yale Divinity School, October 18, 2018.
2014
Christian Smith, Professor of Sociology and Direct of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society, University of Notre Dame. Parents, the REAL Pastors: the Absolute Centrality of Parenting in Passing on Religious Faith and Practice to the Next Generation, Yale Divinity School, October 22, 2014.
2005
Don Cupitt, former Dean of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. A New Method of Religious Enquiry, Yale Divinity School, February 28, 2005.
2003
Nancy Ammerman, Professor of Sociology of Religion, Boston University. Tabernacles in the Wilderness: Forming Communities of Faith in a Diverse and Changing World, Yale Divinity School, October 14, 2003.
2003
Avery Dulles, Jesuit Priest and Cardinal of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church and Ecumenical Relations, Yale Divinity School, September 23, 2003.
2001
Margaret Farley, Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics, Yale Divinity School, and Thomas P. Duffy, Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine. Death, Dying, and Clinical Practice, Yale Divinity School, October 4, 2001.
2000
Marie M. Fortune, Editor of the Journal of Religion and Abuse. This Is Not About You: the Challenge of Ministry and Boundaries, Yale Divinity School, October 13, 2000.
1998
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago. The Sin of Pride and the Triumph of Economics, Yale Divinity School, October 15, 1998.
1997
Helen Prejean, C.S.J., Advocate for abolition of the death penalty. Dead Man Walking: The Journey, Yale Divinity School, October 15, 1997.
1996
Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Founder of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians. Religious Issues in the Creative Writings of West African Women, Yale Divinity School, October 7, 1996.
1995
William F. May, Michael J. McGivney Professor of Moral Theology, Catholic University of America. Money and the Professions: Medicine, Law, and the Ministry, Yale Divinity School, October 9, 1995.