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.