Pastor Anthony Parker traced the history of the Church of God in Christ and defined the black and African American cultures in a presentation last Friday (Aug 12) in Donahue Auditorium.

After graduating from John Carroll in 1994 as the Millor Orator, Pastor Parker earned a degree from the Cleveland Marshall College of Law before becoming a minister in the fastest growing Pentecostal church in the US.

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His lecture was the first of 2 summer events sponsored by the Tuohy Chair of Interreligious Studies. In the second this Friday (Aug 19), also in Donahue at 7:30 pm, Kent State Professor David Odell-Scott will present "International Religious Communities in Ohio." Religious Studies Professor David Mason is director of the Tuohy Chair. Click on audio icons below for more of Pastor Anthony Parker's lecture.