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The Rev. Dr. Serene Jones Will Soon Give the 34th Annual Knippa Interfaith / Ecumenical Lecture

Public Radio Tulsa | By Rich Fisher

Published January 28, 2021 at 4:36 PM CST

Our guest is the Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, a well-known theologian who grew up in Oklahoma and is now the President and Johnston Family Professor for Religion and Democracy at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. (Union is an interdenominational seminary that was established in 1836.) Formerly a professor at Yale Divinity School, Dr. Jones has published many articles and books over the years, and she's an ordained minister in both the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ. On Sunday the 31st, Dr. Jones will give the 34th Annual Knippa Interfaith / Ecumenical Lecture at 4pm. The lecture, titled "Trauma and Grace: An Oklahoma History," will be streamed on Facebook Live. (You can also join the lecture, which will be followed by a Q&A, at this Zoom link -- https://ptstulsa.zoom.us/j/93227995051.)

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Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.

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