Women of Wesleyan tradition
By Kate Brannen
WILMORE, KY—Asbury University’s biennial Wesleyan Heritage Conference, taking place Oct. 4-6, will focus on women of the Wesleyan tradition. The campus welcomes Dr. Priscilla Pope-Levison, Dr. Roger Green, and Dr. Charles White as conference speakers.
The women featured include Amanda Berry Smith, Catherine Mumford Booth, Phoebe Worral Palmer, and Hannah Whitall Smith. All were influential because of their mission and social reform work, authorship, evangelism, and participation in revivals and the holiness movement.
Pope-Levison is a professor of theology and the assistant director of women’s studies at Seattle Pacific University. She has served as a contributor to multiple reference works and authored and co-authored numerous articles and four books, including her most recent, Turn the Pulpit Loose: Two Centuries of American Women Evangelists. She is a graduate of the University of St. Andrew’s, Duke Divinity School, and DePauw University.
Green, a Salvationist, is an international speaker, the chair of Biblical Studies and Christian Ministries at Gordon College. He is the author of numerous articles and books, many of which focus on the Salvation Army and the work of Booth and her husband. He is a graduate of Temple University, Asbury Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Boston College.
White is a professor of Christian thought and history at Spring Arbor University. He has taught in nine countries and authored two books, including The Beauty of Holiness: Phoebe Palmer as Theologian, Revivalist, Feminist, and Humanitarian. He studied at Harvard University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, University of Cambridge, and Boston University School of Theology
Conference events include chapel at 10 a.m. on Monday and Wednesday in Hughes Auditorium, a forum led by Pope-Levison at 4 p.m. on Monday in the Bennett-Bernard Auditorium, a coffee house with White at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday in the Student Center, and a banquet with a presentation by Green at 6 p.m. on Wednesday in the Gray Room. For a complete schedule of events and presentations, visit the Web site.
