https://www.uua.org/ga/past/2005/ware-pagels
General Assembly 2005 Event 4073
Speaker: Dr. Elaine Pagels, Professor of History, Princeton University
For the first time, the same person was selected as the awardee for the Melcher Book Award and as the Ware lecturer. The program opened with the book award, as the Rev. Phyllis O'Connell read from the book award, citing how Dr. Elaine Pagels has "given clarion voice to long-lost and long-suppressed expressions of earliest Christianity" and has planted "whole new gardens of theological possibilities."
President of the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Rev. Dr. William G. Sinkford, introduced the evening's Ware lecture, which, he said, is a way to "provide a kind of outside view to our faith community," to be "outside our comfort zone" as Unitarian Universalists, but thereby to deepen our own faith understandings.
Referring to the discussions over the last two years responding to his call for a "language of reverence" for Unitarian Universalists, Sinkford suggested that he himself was "looking for some help from this Ware lecture."
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