The annual Jeanette Zug Fall Lecture will be live in Peter Hall, 348 Main St. and via zoom at 1 p.m. Oct. 24. The topic is Relentless Change & Moravian Responses: Our Local Predecessors and Their Legacies, presented by the Rev. Dr. Frank Crouch. He earned a Ph.D. in New Testament studies from Duke University.

The former dean of Moravian Seminary will share findings from his 2020-2021 research sabbatical on Moravians, race and racism.

From 1915 to 1920, the nation experienced The Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the North, violence against Black people, the temperance movement and prohibition, women’s suffrage, an influenza pandemic that killed millions; unionization and World War I. What, exactly, did the Moravians do during these critical five years, and how does their response fit within the context of their 300-year-old history and theology? The lecture is supported by the Jeanette Barres Zug endowment fund.

There will be a post-lecture food and wine reception and tour at the Moravian Museum of Bethlehem, 66 W. Church St. The museum’s newly opened Moravian Legacy exhibit links equal education for all, innovation and the arts from the early settlement to Bethlehem today. For tickets and information: visit https://historicbethlehem.org/jeanette-barres-zug-lecture/