Commencement 2006

Antioch College prepares for Graduation 2006

After a college career built on real world experiences, commencement is an important chance for reflection and engagement as students move out to make their impact on the world. Commencement is the last day for students to gather together as a community and to celebrate with their families.

Commencement 2005

The Rev. Raphael G. Warnock named Commencement Speaker

YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO—The Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, will deliver the Commencement Address at Antioch College’s Graduation Ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 29. The graduation ceremony is free and open to the public.

The Ebenezer Baptist Church was the church of Coretta Scott King, a member of Antioch’s Class of 1951. Her husband Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., served as associate pastor and his father served as pastor in the pulpit of that historic church.

Rev. Warnock is the son of two Pentecostal-Holiness ministers who preached his first sermon at age 11. He is a graduate of Morehouse College and he holds a Master of Divinity Degree and a Master of Philosophy Degree from Union Theological Seminary of New York City. In 1989, Rev. Warnock authored “Educating Teens For Positive Peer Intervention,” which today still serves as Georgia’s official curriculum guide for teen/peer programs aimed at reducing the state’s teenage pregnancy rate. Then-Governor Joseph Frank Harris appointed Warnock to the 17-state Southern Regional Task Force on Infant Mortality. In 1995, he was part of a 15-member delegation to Haiti, following the 1991 coup and return to power of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He, and other delegates, later lobbied members of Congress and the State Department on U.S. policy toward this small budding democracy.

Currently, Rev. Warnock serves as co-chair of The National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS-Baltimore Chapter. He is a graduate of the Leadership Program sponsored by the Greater Baltimore Committee and the Harvard University Summer Leadership Institute.

Rev. Warnock has preached in major pulpits across the country. In 1993, he received Union Seminary’s coveted William H. Hudnut Preaching Award. The November 1999 issue of "Ebony Magazine" listed him as one of 30 Leaders Of The Future. Presently, he is a PhD candidate in systematic theology at Union Seminary. His primary research has focused black religion and spirituality and interpreting the theological meaning and historical mission of the black church. This work has included the ministries of Martin Luther King Jr. and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

For more on the Rev. Warnock, please visit:

http://online.historicebenezer.org/EbenezerPastorPages/pastorwarnock.aspx