Jean Bethke Elshtain, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago, will deliver this year's Gifford Lectures. See this piece from the university's Chronicle:
"She is one of the very few political theorists writing today who can be trusted... to write with insight on the relation of religion and politics and of theology and philosophy," said Michael Walzer of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.(Hat tip: MA.)