The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes is an American Baptist minister ordained to the Christian Ministry by The First Baptist Church of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Since 1970 he has served in The Memorial Church, Harvard University; and since 1974 as Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in The Memorial Church. Widely regarded as one of America’s most distinguished preachers, Professor Gomes has fulfilled preaching and lecturing engagements throughout this country and the British Isles. In 2004 he addressed the John F. Kennedy School of Government Leadership Conference; in 2003 he was Lecturer at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia, and delivered The Lyttelton Addresses at Eton College, England. In 2002 he served as Hein Fry Lecturer for the Evangelical Lutheran Seminaries in the United States. In 2001 he was Missioner to Oxford University, preaching a series of talks in the University Church of St. Mary the Virgin; in 2000 he delivered The University Sermon before The University of Cambridge, England, and preached The Millennial Sermon in Canterbury Cathedral, England; and in 1998 he presented The Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching, in Yale Divinity School. Named Clergy of the Year in 1998 by Religion in American Life, Professor Gomes participated in the presidential inaugurations of Ronald Wilson Reagan and of George Herbert Walker Bush. His New York Times and national best-selling books, The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart, (1996); and Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living (1998), were published by William Morrow and Company, Inc.; The Good Life: Truths That Last in Times of Need was published in 2002 by HarperSanFrancisco, which published Strength for the Journey: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living in spring 2003. He has also published nine volumes of sermons as well as numerous articles and papers.

Reverend Peter J. Gomes appears in "Hogwood and Haydn" on March 12 and 13, 2005.

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