Media Advisory from Illinois Wesleyan

September 13, 2002
Contact: Marty Eich, 309/556-3181

Event: Family Day Service

Sermon: "How did the Human Family Get So Human?" by University Chaplain Dennis E. Groh

Date: Sept. 22 (Sunday)

Time: 10:00 a.m.

Location: Evelyn Chapel, Illinois Wesleyan University, 1301 N. Park St., Bloomington.

Background:

Dennis E. Groh, class of ’61, is the University Chaplain and Professor of Humanities and Archaeology at Illinois Wesleyan. He was previously a Professor of the History of Christianity at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and an Advisory Member of the Graduate Faculty of Northwestern University, in Evanston, Ill.

Groh, who joined Illinois Wesleyan in 1996, is a specialist in early Christianity and the archaeology of Israel in the Roman and Byzantine Periods. He will be speaking on the evolution of the human family.

In addition to numerous chapel services and speeches at Illinois Wesleyan, Groh, an ordained Elder of the United Methodist Church, has given addresses at Albion College, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), Brown University, National Geographic Society Headquarters (Washington, D.C.), Oxford University (England), Princeton University, and the University of Chicago.

Contact: For more information, contact Dennis E. Groh at 309/556-3005.