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Wilmington College’s Quaker Lecture Series presenter to highlight Israel-Palestine conflict

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Max L. Carter. (Wilmington College photo)
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Randy Sarvis, Wilmington College

Friends minister Max L. Carter will share insight from his long history involving the Middle East in presenting the next program in Wilmington College’s Quaker Lecture Series on Jan. 16, at 7 p.m., in the T. Canby Jones Meetinghouse in Bord Cultural Arts Center.

The event, free and open to the public, is under the auspices of the Office of Campus Ministry.

Since 1997, Carter and his wife, Jane, have led annual service-learning trips to Palestine and Israel to volunteer at the Friends School in Ramallah, where participants learn about Middle East dynamics from Palestinian and Israeli advocates for a just peace.

On his own or as co-leader of these trips, Carter has traveled to Palestine and Israel more than three dozen times. He is the author or co-author of seven books and numerous chapters, articles and encyclopedia entries. Three of his books are about Palestine and Israel.

Carter is the emeritus William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies at Guilford College. Reared on a dairy farm near Russiaville, Ind., he was active in Russiaville Friends Church and Western Yearly Meeting. During his undergraduate studies at Ball State University, he was active in the Ball State Fellowship of Friends.

As a Vietnam-era conscientious objector, Carter did alternative service teaching at the Friends Boys School in Ramallah, Palestine, after which he studied campus ministry at Earlham School of Religion. Following nine years on the staff of Earlham College, he did his doctoral studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, concentrating on American religious history. His dissertation was on the Quaker work among the Miami and Shawnee Native American peoples in Indiana and Ohio in the early 1800s.

Upon completing his PhD and teaching in Philadelphia's Quaker secondary schools, Carter went to Guilford College to establish its first official campus ministry program in 1990. He is a recorded Friends minister and a member of New Garden Friends Meeting, North Carolina Fellowship of Friends. With his wife, he continues to reside in Greensboro, N.C.
 

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