LIVE Webcast for the Joanna Dewey and Carter Heyward Lectures

October 24, 2008, CAMBRIDGE, MA - Episcopal Divinity School is offering a
LIVE webcast of the Joanna Dewey Lecture in Feminist Biblical Studies and
the Carter Heyward Scholars Program Lecture for those unable to attend this
event. Directions for viewing a webcast are located on EDS' homepage
<http://www.eds.edu/indexDyn.asp> under "Events." The webcast will also be
recorded for future viewing on the EDS website. Both lectures will be held
on November 13 at Episcopal Divinity School, 99 Brattle Street, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.

The Joanna Dewey Lecture begins at 4:00 pm and features the Rev. Dr. Renita
J. Weems, a noted scholar, author and minister, delivering a lecture
entitled "Baking Cakes to the Queen of Heaven: God, Goddesses, and Growing
Up Black and Female in America."

After a short reception, the Carter Heyward Lecture begins at 7:00 pm with
Marvin Ellison, the William S. Bass Professor of Christian Ethics at Bangor
Theological Seminary in Maine, delivering his lecture entitled "Is Marriage
a 'Must' or a 'Bust'? Enlarging the Justice Agenda."