October ‘26: read Martin’s article here.
Martin Holt Dotterweich directs the King Institute for Faith & Culture at King University in Bristol, Tennessee. Founded as the Buechner Institute by W. Dale Brown in 2008, the Institute has maintained an annual speaker series in the spirit of Buechner for nineteen years, “located between shrill sectarianism and abject secularism and honoring Fred Buechner’s example … to cultivate a conversation that is both artful and substantial on issues of faith and culture.”
Dotterweich also serves as Professor of History at King University. He has published on late medieval and early modern Scotland, the Reformation, the print history of the English Bible, memory, and vocation. He is a Faculty Fellow of the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE), has held an Inklings Fellowship, and serves as a regular lay preacher, mostly in the Presbyterian tradition.
His introduction to the work of Frederick Buechner came through The Sacred Journey, a book which continues to shape Dotterweich’s teaching. Buechner’s injunction to “listen to your life” has become a charge for him to encourage students to tie their own memory to the remembrance of history. He revisits Godric often, finding wisdom and humor and inspiration in the old saint’s life. But more than anything else, he finds in Buechner a grace of honesty and goodwill to guide his own days.
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