This year’s J. Arthur Martin Lecture, entitled “Prophets, Psychics and Other Wild Spirits: Journalism from the Front Lines of American Religion,” is scheduled for 7:00 PM in the Mary Lyon Holman Room on Tuesday, February 27.

The lecturer is Wheaton alum Sam Kestenbaum ’09, who won a third-place 2023 American Academy of Religion Journalism award for Best In-Depth Reporting on Religion. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone magazine and other media. In addition  to reporting regularly on American new religious movements, notably the Black Hebrew Israelites, he has worked internationally from newsrooms in Ramallah, Sana, and Beijing.