2024-2025 Parkhurst Lecture

Dr. Matthew Sigler
Thursday, March 27, 2025 | 5 p.m. | Messenger Recital Hall

"Revive Our Spiritual Strength: Worship Practices Among The Abolitionists Of The Revivalist Tradition"

Dr. Matthew Sigler is an associate professor of worship and historical theology at Seattle Pacific University. Sigler holds a PhD in liturgical studies from Boston University, where his work focused on Methodist identity and liturgical praxis. Prior to becoming a professor, Dr. Sigler served for 12 years as a music minister in the church, and has written on contemporary worship as well as lyrical theology. He is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and is particularly interested in how the faith practices of communities of the past can serve as resources for renewal in the church today.