MIDDLEBURY — Noted theologian and author the Rev. Dr. Neal F. Fisher is coming to the Middlebury United Methodist Church to deliver a sermon later this month.
The public is invited to come to the church on the corner of North Pleasant and Seminary streets on Sunday, April 29, any time until 11:15 a.m. in order to hear Fisher’s message. Gathering time begins at 10:45 followed by worship at 11 a.m. There will be a reception afterward when people will be able to speak with him.
Fisher’s latest book is “Introduction to Christianity: A New Way of Seeing.” A recent issue of the Christian Century magazine features his article titled “Moral Conviction in an Age of Practical Atheism.”
After serving as pastor of United Methodist churches in Massachusetts and then in administration and on the faculty at Boston University School of Theology, Fisher was for 20 years president and Senior Scholar in Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill. In retirement he and his wife, Lil, live near their family in Wolcott, Vt., where he is active in his Vermont community. Emma Lodge, a junior at Middlebury College, is the Fishers’ granddaughter.