The Phillips Lecture Series
The Religious Studies Phillips Lecture was established in 1987 by the United Religious Ministry in honor of Dwight L. Phillips (1905-1973), a leading Charlotte developer and contractor in the construction and development of apartments, housing developments, and shopping centers in Charlotte, and military installations in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Among other notable landmarks, Phillips built the Charlotte Merchandise Mart and Freedom Drive Shopping Center in Charlotte. Phillips was a native Charlottean who grew up on his father’s dairy farm in what became the Sharon neighborhood of the city.
2024-25 Lecture
David Walker, University of California, Santa Barbara, on “Mormon Wrestling: A Genealogy”
2023-24 Lecture
Gill Frank, Princeton University, “The Pastoral is Political: Religious Activism and Abortion Travel Before Roe v. Wade”
2018-19 Lecture
Rona Avissar, David Yellin Academic College of Education in Jerusalem, on “Family and Children in the Archaeology of the Hebrew Bible”
2013-14
Gabriel Barkay, Bar Ilan University,
