Sorensen Lectureship

The Margaret Lindquist Sorensen Lectureship was established in 1978 by a gift from her son, Dr. Andrew A. Sorensen, B.D. 1962, to provide an annual series of lectures on politics and ethics.

2023

Jason McLennan, CEO McLennan Design and founder of International Living Future Institute and Cascadia Green Building Council. Living buildings and Building with Love, Yale Divinity School, January 31, 2023.

2021

Elizabeth Bruenig, Writer and journalist. In Praise of Shadows, Yale Divinity School, November 10, 2021.

2021

David Brooks, New York Times columnist. The Crisis in Moral Formation, Yale Divinity School, March 16, 2021.

2020

Jane McAuliffe, senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University. The Christian History of America’s Qur’an, Yale Divinity School, February 20, 2020.

2019

Michael Allan Cook, Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University. Muslim Sectarianism Past and Present, Yale Divinity School, April 11, 2019

2012

Katie G. Cannon, Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Ethics, Union Presbyterian Seminary. Squaring the Ethical Circle: Zora Neale Hurston as a Doer of Justice, Yale Divinity School, April 17, 2012.

2011

J. Kameron Carter, Associate Professor in Theology and Black Church Studies, Duke Divinity School. The Disorders of Love: a Meditation on the Theological Fanon, Yale Divinity School, April 5, 2011.

2005

Richard Mollica, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, Massachusetts General Hospital. The Transfiguration of Healing: The Care of Survivors of Mass Violence and Torture, Yale Divinity School, March 1, 2005.

2003

Charles E. Curran, Elizabeth Scurlock Professor of Human Values, Southern Methodist University. The Just War Theory Today: One Perspective, Yale Divinity School, October 13, 2003.

2002

Ronald J. Sider, Professor of Theology, Holistic Ministry, and Public Policy, Palmer (formerly Eastern Baptist) Theological Seminary. Evaluating the Faith-Based Initiative: Is Charitable Choice Good Public Policy?, Yale Divinity School, October 15, 2002.

Published as: “Evaluating the Faith-Based Initiative: Is Charitable Choice Good Public Policy?” Theology Today 61, no. 4 (January 2005): 485-498.

2001

Margaret Farley, Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics, Yale Divinity School, and Thomas P. Duffy, Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. Death Be Not Proud: Should We Sometimes Let Life Go, But Not Ever Take It?, Yale Divinity School, October 4, 2001. Delivered in conjunction with the 2001 Ensign lecture.

2000

Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke University. Enduring, or, How Rowan Greer Taught Me to Read, Yale Divinity School, October 9, 2000.

1999

Kurt Schmoke, Mayor of Baltimore, MD. On Being Modern-Day Nehemiahs, Yale Divinity School, April 8, 1999.

1999

Delores Williams, Paul Tillich Professor of Theology and Culture, Union Theological Seminary. Is Liberation Enough?: Beyond the Temple Door There Is No Promised Land, Yale Divinity School, October 11, 1999.

1997

James Childress, Kyle Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Medical Education, University of Virginia. Religion and Public Policy: The Controversy About Human Cloning, Yale Divinity School, October 16, 1997.

1997

James T. Laney, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea. Interests and Ethics, Yale Divinity School, Yale Divinity School, March 26, 1997.

1995

James M. Gustafson, Woodruff Professor of Comparative Studies and of Religion, Emory College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Making Theology Intelligible: An Interpretation of H. Richard Niebuhr, Yale Divinity School, February 6, 1995.

1994

Richard John Neuhaus, founder of First Things. A Confusedly Christian Nation, Yale Divinity School, March 28, 1994.

1993

Guido Calabresi, Dean of Yale Law School. About Abortion, Yale Divinity School, April 1, 1993.

1992

Beverly Harrison, Caroline Williams Beaird Professor of Christian Ethics. Reproductive Choice and the Morality of Abortion: Reuniting Issues at the End of the Roe-Wade Era, Yale Divinity School, April 1, 1992.

1991

George McGovern, former United States Senator from South Dakota. The New World Order, Yale Divinity School, April 29, 1991.

1990

David Price, United States Representative from North Carolina. Ethics and the Work of the Legislature, Yale Divinity School, February 13, 1990.

1988

Robin W. Lovin, Associate Professor of Ethics and Society, University of Chicago Divinity School. Why the Church Needs the World: Faith, Realism, and Public Life, Yale Divinity School, October 13, 1988.

1988

William Lee Miller, Professor at the University of Virginia. Another Christian Politics, Yale Divinity School, April 6, 1988.

1986

John C. Danforth, United States Senator from Missouri. Economic Sanctions: Legislating Morality Abroad, Yale Divinity School, October 24, 1986.

1985

David Hollenbach, Professor of Moral Theology, Weston School of Theology. Justice-as-Participation: A Christian Challenge to the U.S. Economy, Yale Divinity School, October 17, 1985.

1984

J. Bryan Hehir, Joseph P. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Ethics and the Nuclear Debate, Yale Divinity School, October 8, 1984.

1984

Marie Augusta Neal, Sister of Notre Dame de Namur and Professor of Sociology, Emmanuel College. Altruism as Public Virtue: Values and Interests, Yale Divinity School, October 8, 1984.

1981

Sheldon Wolin, Professor of Politics, Princeton University. Public Philosophy and Civil Religion, Yale Divinity School, October 1981.