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Can I Get a Witness: Cultivating the Courage of Moral Leaders

Dr. AnneMarie Mingo will be at Louisville Seminary to deliver the lecture in person with an option for remote participants to join virtually. Registration is required whether attending in-person or online. The Edwards Peacemaking Lectureship is coupled in time and theme with the annual Black Church Studies Consultation because of the shared focus on peace and social justice.

About the Lecture

This engaging lecture explores a compelling story of the faith, courage, and moral imagination of civil rights era Black Churchwomen who risked their lives to change our world. The lived theology and ethics of Black women will be centered as the lecture highlights the public witness of their faith and cultivation of courageous resistance against social injustices. The lessons from these moral leaders from the past reflect their hope that the way things were would not be the way things would always be and provides insights into our moral challenges today.

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About Dr. AnneMarie Mingo

AnneMarie Mingo is an Associate Professor of Ethics, Culture, and Moral Leadership and the Director of the Metro-Urban Institute at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. She previously served as Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University, and an affiliate faculty member in the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State. In 2018-2019 she was the Ella Baker Visiting Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Drawing on oral histories and ethnographies, her work in Social Ethics centers on the lived experiences of Black Churchwomen who were involved in the Civil Rights Movement. Her research interests include 20th and 21st Century Black Freedom Struggles with a specific focus on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, South African Apartheid Movement, and global Movement for Black Lives, socio-religious activism of Black women, and theological and ethical influences in social movements. Her first book, Have You Got Good Religion?: Black Women’s Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement, (University of Illinois Press, 2024).

She also writes in areas of Black Church activism, peace and reconciliation, and the influence of Black music and media on social activism. She is the founder of the Cultivating Courageous Resisters project that works collaboratively to expand the work and equip intergenerational religious activists to help meet critical contemporary needs for social justice.

Prior to entering the academy, she worked as a corporate marketing executive with The Procter and Gamble Company for over eight years. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, FL; a Master of Business Administration from Rollins College - Crummer Graduate School in Winter Park, FL; a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, NJ; and a Ph.D. from Emory University in Atlanta, GA.

As an international speaker, AnneMarie has inspired and empowered people throughout the United States, Caribbean, southern and western Africa, and Southeast Asia. An ordained Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, she has served as an associate minister at St. James A.M.E. Church in Pittsburgh, Big Bethel A.M.E. Church in Atlanta, GA, St. James A.M.E. Church in Newark, NJ, and maintains membership at St. Mark A.M.E. Church in Orlando, FL. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, and active in numerous academic guilds including serving on the Board of Directors for the Society of Christian Ethics. She is a co-editor of the Studies in Social Ethics, Ethnography, and Theologies book series with Bloomsbury Press. AnneMarie is the founder of Sister Scholars, an organization that supports Black women with or pursuing doctorate degrees. Dr. Mingo seeks to join theory and praxis in the Academy, the Church, and broader society in ways that transforms lives and transforms the world.

About the Edwards Peacemaking Lectureship

The Edwards Peacemaking Lectureship honors Dr. George Edwards and his wife, Jean. Dr. Edwards, an alum of Louisville Seminary (BD ’51), also served the Seminary for 27 years as Professor of New Testament. Dr. Edwards died June 2, 2010. Together, Dr. and Mrs. Edwards shared a ministry that was active in Christian efforts for peace and social justice. Established in 1986, the Edwards Peacemaking Lectureship endowment supports a visiting lecturer to teach a special course or program in continuing or lay education.

Traditionally, the Edwards Peacemaking Lectureship has been coupled in time and theme with the Black Church Studies Consultation because of the shared focus on peace and social justice. View prior lectures here.

*Please note that the 2025 Edwards Peacemaking lecture may be recorded. By registering and participating, you understand that your video or photograph may be captured, and you consent to this recording and its use in any and all media throughout Louisville Seminary and its partners.

Can I Get a Witness: Cultivating the Courage of Moral Leaders

2025 Edwards Hybrid Lecture presented by Dr. AnneMarie Mingo