Lecture Series to Focus on Lay Leadership in New York

The Church Club's annual Lecture Series will focus on the leadership of the laity in the Diocese of New York and will be held on three Mondays in March at Church of the Transfiguration (The Little Church Around the Corner), One East 29th Street (between Fifth and Madison).

The event will offer a light supper and wine reception before the lecture.

6:00 supper; 7:00 lecture

$60 for the series (Church Club members).  $75 for the series (non-members)

RSVP by phone (212-828-7418) or by email.

[March 2]
The Rev. Canon James Elliott Lindsley
Serving the Church: The Laity in the Story of the Church in New York

From 1974 to 2008, James Elliott Lindsley served as historiographer of the Diocese of New York, authoring books on the history of the Diocese, St. James Church, and the Church Club of New York -- The First Hundred Years, which was published in 1994.

[March 9]
Mary S. Donovan
Building Networks of Social Service: Laywomen in the Diocese of New York

Mary Donovan is the co-author, with R. William Franklin, of Will the Dust Praise You?: Spiritual Responses to 9/11 and A Different Call: Women’s Ministries in the Episcopal Church, 1850-1920.  She is Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Hunter College, a member of the editorial board of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church, former trustee of the Church Club, and the wife of the Rt. Rev. Herbert Donovan.

[March 16]
Ronald B. Young
Amid the Tumult and the Shouting: The Laity, 1950 to the Present

Ronald Young is a Doctor of Theology candidate at General Theological Seminary and the author of an update to the Church Club’s history, focusing on the post-war years and picking up where Elliott Lindsley left off.

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