Christendom College will welcome author and professor Dr. Clint Brand to campus for the latest event in its Collegiate Lecture Series on Thursday, October 30, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. in Old Chapel Hall. Brand, Associate Professor of English at the University of Saint Thomas in Houston, will deliver an address titled “Anglican Patrimony in Catholic Communion: Problem, Gift, Challenge, Mission.” The event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Clinton Brand, PhD, KSG, is an Associate Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, where he teaches classical, medieval, and Renaissance literature. From 2010 to 2015, he served on the Holy See’s Interdicasterial Commission Anglicanae Traditiones, which developed the liturgical provisions of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus. Dr. Brand is the editor of St. Gregory’s Prayer Book: A Primer of Catholic Devotions from the English Patrimony (Ignatius Press, 2019), and he has published extensively on Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, John Henry Newman, and T. S. Eliot, among others, as well as on liturgical poetics and residual Catholicism in post-Reformation English religious culture.
Christendom recently welcomed acclaimed poet James Matthew Wilson to campus for its first Collegiate Lecture Series event of the fall semester. Wilson, a friend of the college, spoke on “The Part the Muses Give Us: Poetry as First Art,” providing an evening of dynamic engagement with perennial truths—the very purpose of each Collegiate Lecture Series event.
Expanding upon the college’s original Major Speaker Series, the Collegiate Lecture Series provides students, faculty, staff, and members of the community an opportunity to hear from regional and national speakers on topics relevant to Christendom’s mission of “Restoring All Things in Christ.” For students, especially, these events allow them to connect classroom learning with the broader ideas and questions posed by the speakers. The series also honors those who have pursued wisdom in their lives and share it generously with the Christendom community.
The college intends to host several more Collegiate Lecture Series events in the spring. Dates and speakers will be announced at a later date.
Parking for the event will be available at Christ the King Chapel on Shenandoah Shores Road (the first left when approaching the college).