Washington, DC, February 19, 2009
Abraham Lincoln Actor David Selby and Emancipation Proclamation Scholar to Speak at Washington National Cathedral
Back to Press Releases »WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cathedral Dean Sam Lloyd will welcome actor David Selby and Howard University professor Edna Greene Medford for a special forum celebrating Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday on Sunday, February 22.
David Selby’s long stage, television and film career includes the Broadway productions The Heiress and The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, the television series Dark Shadows and Falcon Crest and the films Up the Sandbox, Dying Young and White Squall. In addition to acting, he is an accomplished playwright and novelist. His most recent book is Lincoln’s Better Angel. Selby stars as Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre’s world premiere of The Heavens are Hung in Black, a drama about the challenges Lincoln faced in 1862.
The Sunday Forum: Critical Issues in the Light of Faith is a weekly program of intellectually probing dialogue about major issues of our time. The 50-minute conversation includes questions from live and online audiences and is held between Sunday morning services, beginning at 10:10 am.
As a church for national purposes, Washington National Cathedral welcomes people of all faiths and none to participate. Dean Lloyd, a leading voice of for generous-spirited Christianity, hosts the weekly Forum and encourages people from across the nation to submit online questions in advance by visiting www.nationalcathedral.org.
SOURCE: Washington National Cathedral