2025 Keston Spring Lecture featuring Dr. Wallace Daniel

The Keston Center for Religion, Politics, and Society proudly presents its spring lecture

"Speaking Truth to Power: The Revolt of a Russian Priest”
Dr. Wallace Daniel
Distinguished Professor of History, Mercer University &
Emeritus Professor of History, Baylor University

Daniel will introduce his latest publication, Freedom and the Captive Mind: Fr. Gleb Yakunin and Orthodox Christianity in Soviet Russia, and engage in conversation with Dr. Stephen Sloan, Baylor Professor of History & Director of the Institute for Oral History, who will also moderate an audience Q&A.

Thursday, March 27, 2025
Copies of Freedom and the Captive Mind: Fr. Gleb Yakunin and Orthodox Christianity in Soviet Russia are available at the Baylor Bookstore.

OneSearch Record Video
Article: The Baylor Lariat (March 28, 2025) Article: Baptist Standard (April 9, 2025)

A reception and book signing will follow the lecture and conversation in the Cox Reception Hall on the first floor of the Armstrong Browning Library & Museum. Through a special arrangement with the publisher and the author, the Baylor Bookstore will sell copies of  Freedom and the Captive Mind: Fr. Gleb Yakunin and Orthodox Christianity in Soviet Russia (NIU/Cornell University Press, 2024) for only $20!

The 2025 Keston Spring Lecture is sponsored by the Baylor Libraries, International Studies, and the Departments of History, Religion, and Modern Languages and Cultures.