A Lecture on White Christian Nationalism & the Other: Dusting Off the Niebuhrs for the 21st Century

Join us at Ballard First Lutheran Church as we host the inaugural talk in our Erik Wilson Weiberg Lectureship, lead by Dr. Suzanne Holland! The talk begins at 7pm on September 26th, with a reception to follow.

Dr Suzanne Holland is Professor of Religion and Ethics at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA where she holds the John B. Magee Distinguished Professorship in Science and Values for her work in the field of Bioethics. Holland founded the Bioethics Program at University of Puget Sound, the only liberal arts college in the West with a dedicated Minor in Bioethics. She is also part of the core faculty of the Puget Sound AI & Human Values Initiative.

Professor Holland received her Ph.D from Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, in Religion and Society, and her Master’s in Biblical Studies from Louisville Presbyterian Seminary. She has
received multiple faculty and teaching awards, and is recognized by her students and faculty peers as being an outstanding lecturer and teacher.

Professor Holland’s research and teaching interests have always focused on social justice issues at the intersection of society, health care, religion, and new technologies in medicine and science, and more recently, artificial intelligence. Holland’s current passion is the course she teaches on Ethics &
The Other, which is the inspiration for her lecture, “How to Understand White Christian Nationalism & The Other: Dusting Off the Niebuhrs for the 21st Century.” In her spare time, she is a perennial student of the maddening game of golf.