Dr. Teresa Fry Brown gave the sermon at the closing worship service of the Prophetic Voices Centennial Academic Conference on March 20, 2015. Dr. Fry Brown, Professor of Homiletics, will become the next Bandy Professor of Preaching, effective September 1, 2015.

The brand of secularism that held sway in the 1960s misconceived the future in the way it idealized cultural homogeneity, ignored the pluralism of non-Western societies, and devalued religion, according to Hanciles. In reality, the American religious landscape has been transformed in the last 50...