Stover Center director to present series about faith

Dr. Lawrence M. Stratton will present a series of lectures on “Christian Faith in a Turbulent Public Square” from 7 to 8:15 p.m. Tuesdays, Sept. 26 to Oct. 10 and Oct. 24, at Church of the Covenant, 267 E. Beau St., Washington.
The series outlines the challenges and opportunities relating to Christian engagement in the public square by exploring and applying insights from Christian thinkers such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Luther King Jr., Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, John Witherspoon, John Calvin, Martin Luther, Thomas Aquinas and Augustine of Hippo.
Stratton, director of Waynesburg University’s Stover Center for Constitutional Studies and Moral Leadership and associate professor of ethics and constitutional law, is an ordained Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) minister. He also received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School; a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center; and a Master of Divinity and doctorate in Christian social ethics from Princeton Theological Seminary.
Before his appointment at Waynesburg University, he taught courses relating to law and ethics at Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Pennsylvania, Villanova University, Drew University and Pepperdine University. He also was a preceptor for ethics courses at Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary.
Waynesburg’s Stover Center is an interdisciplinary scholar center dedicated to bringing insights from the U.S. Constitution’s founding era and Christianity to bear in the contemporary public square, with the ultimate goal of creatively transforming the polis.
For more information, visit www.churchofthecov.org or call Pastor Kay Balderose at 724-222-0190, ext 115.