The next talk in this series hosted by St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Palo Alto (600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto) will be Religion Race, and the ‘Heathen.’ Dr. Kathryn Gin Lum is a Professor in the Religious Studies Department, in collaboration with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, at Stanford University. Her teaching and research focus on the lived ramifications of religious beliefs; she specializes in the history of religion and race in America. Dr. Gin Lum will speak on themes in her most recent book, Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, which considers how the figure of the "heathen" in need of salvation underlies American conceptions of race. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event. Please register for free tickets here.