The public is invited.  Admission is free.
          The A.J. Muste Memorial Lecture began in 1985 on
  the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of A.J.
  Muste, a 1905 graduate of Hope College.  Muste went on to
  become one of the most well-known and influential peace
  activists in the United States, working for many years as
  the executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
          Kansfield has been president and John Henry
  Livingstone Professor of Theology at New Brunswick
  Theological Seminary since 1993.  He is an especially
  appropriate Muste Lecturer, according to lecture coordinator
  Professor Donald Cronkite, since Muste attended New
  Brunswick Theological Seminary from 1906 to 1909.
          Kansfield's lecture is titled "'Church' and
  'Gospel:' A.J. Muste's Legacy for Today's Crucial
  Conversations."  He is especially interested in Muste's
  critique of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary that he
  attended at the beginning of the century and some of the
  inadequacies Muste found for preparing pastors for the world
  they would encounter.  He will apply that critique to some
  of the critical conversations the church is encountering at
  the beginning of this new century.
          With degrees from Hope College, Western
  Theological Seminary, Union Theological Seminary and the
  University of Chicago, Kansfield began his career as a
  pastor in New York and Illinois before becoming assistant
  librarian and then librarian at Beardslee Library at Western
  Theological Seminary from 1974 to 1983.  He then was
  director of library services and associate professor of
  church history at Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Bexley
  Hall/Crozier Theological Seminary and St. Bernard's
  Institute before assuming the Presidency of New Brunswick
  Theological Seminary in 1993.
          Following his graduation from New Brunswick
  Theological Seminary in 1909, Muste was ordained a pastor in
  the Reformed Church in America.  He served churches in New
  York until he found himself in opposition to World War I and
  resigned his pastorate in 1914.  There followed a span of
  years in which Muste was a labor organizer and radical
  socialist educator until 1936, when he returned to the
  church after a religious experience in Paris.  From then
  until his death in 1967, Muste worked in active opposition
  to war.
          This year's Muste Lecture is supported by the A.J.
  Muste Lectureship Fund, the Cultural Affairs Committee and
  the Office of the Provost.

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