This is a special guest lecture by Dr L. Gregory Jones, President of Belmont University, on the importance of social innovation for discovering forgiveness.

We often think of forgiveness as a path to new life and a renewed future. This lecture suggests that innovation is important to discovering forgiveness and healing wounds of the past.

Speaker: Dr L. Gregory Jones, President of Belmont University, Nashville 

About L. Gregory Jones 

L. Gregory Jones is President of Belmont University, a position he has held since June 1, 2021. He was educated at the University of Denver (B.A. and M.P.A.) and Duke University (M.Div. and Ph.D).

He has previously served as Dean of Duke Divinity School (1997-2010 and 2018-2021) and also as Provost and Executive Vice President of Baylor University. He is the author or editor of 19 books, and authored more than 200 essays/articles. He is known for books on forgiveness (Embodying Forgiveness and the co-authored Forgiving as We’ve Been Forgiven), Christian leadership (the co-authored Resurrecting Excellence) and social innovation (Christian Social Innovation). His most recent book is the co-authored Navigating the Future: Traditioned Innovation for Wilder Seas (2021).

Dr Jones is visiting Queen's as part of a broader delegation from U.S. strategic partner, Belmont University.

Belmont is located in Nashville, Tennessee, which is a sister city to Belfast.