Noble Lecture: When We All Get To Heaven

This spring, as part of our Noble Lecture Series, we welcome the creators of a beautiful and important new podcast to our church to discuss their work. The podcast, titled “When We All Get to Heaven,” documents the ministry of the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco during the most harrowing years of the AIDS epidemic. It offers a powerful account of what it means to be a church in times of great crisis and suffering, and it is easily and widely available. The story is movingly told through interviews and archival recordings, and the creators will join us to share more about their work.

The William Belden Noble Lectures were established in 1898 by Nannie Yulee Noble in memory of her husband. According to the terms of the bequest: “The object of the Founder of the Lectures is to continue the mission of her husband, whose supreme desire was to extend the influence of Jesus as ‘the Way, the Truth, and the Life,’ and to illustrate and enforce the words of Jesus — ‘I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.’ The Founder has in view the presentation of the personality of Jesus as given in the New Testament, or unfolded in the history of the Christian Church, or illustrated in the inward experience of His followers, or as the inspiration to Christian Missions for the conversion of the world. The scope of the Lectures is believed to be as wide as the highest interests of humanity.”

The lecture is free and open to the public.