Rev. Phillips Brooks Through Contemporary Eyes or Why Is That Statue on North Andover Common?

Join the Rev. Dr. Robert D. Flanagan for this lecture on Rev. Phillips Brooks, the episcopal minister who wrote the Christmas carol O Little Town of Bethlehem, and whose statue sits on North Andover Common. Who was Rev. Phillips Brooks? What can he teach a modern audience? And why is his statue on North Andover Common? The Rev. Robert D. Flanagan, D. Min. is a professor, researcher, and advisor at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. He is the editor and a contributor to While Mortals Sleep: Reading Phillips Brooks Through 21st-century Eyes. He is also a graduate of the Brooks School and a former School Minister.