Union College News

Union's Willson-Gross Lectures Take
the Form of Two One-Man Plays

Union College presents the Willson-Gross lectures in the form of two one-man plays by Dr. Al Staggs. The presentation will take place on Union's campus on October 19th and 20th.

The first play, A View from the Underside: The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, will be held in the Lower Lounge of the Patridge Campus Center on Wednesday, October 19, at 7:30 pm. The second, entitled Oscar Romero: A Martyr's Homily, will be held in Conway Boatman Chapel on Thursday, October 20, at 9:30 am.

Dr. Staggs has performed The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer at such events as the American Academy of Religion, the Sixth International Bonhoeffer Conference, the Washington National Cathedral in honor of the opening of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, as well as a host of other venues.

Dr. Staggs holds a B. A. from Hardin-Simmons University, an M.R.E. degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, a Th.M. from Harvard Divinity School and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He was honored as a Charles E. Merrill Fellow at Harvard in the spring of 1983 with major emphasis in Applied Theology under the direction of Harvey Cox. Al also completed a year internship in Clinical Pastoral Education at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Al served as Baptist minister for twenty-four years prior to becoming a full-time performance artist.

Famed television journalist Bill Moyers says of Dr. Staggs work, "When I watch Al Staggs as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, I am confronted by the deepest moral questions of what it means to be a witness and how I am using my life."

October 10, 2005

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