Dr. Healan Gaston will speak at Pilgrim Congregational Church on Sunday at the 11 a.m. service on the role of liberal Christianity today.
Dr. Gaston, a Chattanooga native and graduate of Baylor School, currently teaches U.S. Religious History at Harvard Divinity School. She graduated from Brown University with a major in religious studies and wrote her senior thesis on the history of the Brainerd Mission, a Congregationalist mission to the Cherokee Nation. Dr. Gaston received her M.A.
and Ph.D. degrees in history from the University of California, Berkeley.
Pilgrim Church is located at 400 Glenwood Dr., at the corner of Third St., in front of Notre Dame High School. For more information, contact 423-698-5682 or www.pilgrim-church.com.