Author and world traveler Enuma Okoro will be the featured speaker at the Dykman Lecture Series Feb. 10.

Author Enuma Okoro Featured for Dykman Lecture

Metro Lutheran Ministry will host author and world traveler Enuma Okoro at the Dykman Lecture Series Feb. 10.

Okoro was born in New York but raised in four countries on three continents. A writer, speaker, consultant, and workshop leader, she has written for ABC television's Good Morning America, Sojourners, Christianity Today, Weavings Journal of the Christian Spiritual Life, and other publications. Okoro is the former director of the Center for Theological Writing at Duke University Divinity School, of which she is a 2003 graduate.

Okoro is widely known for her book, Reluctant Pilgrim: A Moody, Somewhat Self-Indulgent, Introvert's Search for Spiritual Community (Fresh Air Books, 2010). This spiritual memoir was a 2010 finalist for USA Book News National Best Books Awards, and a 2011 finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards. She is also co-author of Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and last year’s Dykman Series speaker, Shane Claiborne.

This year’s Dykman Lecture will be Friday, Feb. 10 at 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Atonement Lutheran Church, 9948 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park, Ks. 66212.

The annual lecture series is named in honor of former board president and perennial MLM leader, Loyd W. Dykman. Admission is free and for more information, call Suzanne Bartling at (816) 285-3146 or e-mail suzannebartling@mlmkc.org.