The Sikes-Melugin Lectures

The Sikes-Melugin Lectureship in Religious Studies was given in honor of Opie L. and John G. Sikes and Ruby D. and Roy Melugin Sr., by their children and grandchildren. The founders of this lectureship hope to continue the appearance on the McMurry campus of significant lecturers and speakers such as those who contributed to their own intellectual/spiritual development while at McMurry University.

The lectures usually span two days, in either the fall or spring semester of the current academic year.  The 2008 speaker was D. Moody Smith.  His presentations were given in the Mabee Room of the Garrison Campus Center as follows:

Monday, March 3
7:30 in the evening: “The Letters of John Within the New Testament"

Tuesday, March 4
2:30 in the afternoon: “Jesus Was Man”
7:30 in the evening: “God is Love”

Admission was free to the public.

Dr. Smith is George Washington Ivey Professor Emeritus of New Testament at the Duke University Divinity School and a recognized authority on the book of John.  He was the Director of Graduate Studies in Religion at the divinity school from 1974 through 1980.  Doctoral students whom he supervised now teach in theology schools from Indonesia to the Central African Republic.  His publications include specialized studies on John as well as The Anatomy of the New Testament (co-authored with Robert A. Spivey and C. Clifton Black) which is now in its sixth edition.