Helen Lee Turner

Public Engagement

Land acknowledgment recognizes campus was originally home to the Cherokee

Event also introduced the new Native American and Indigenous People Student Group

‘A Glimpse of the Sacred’

Pope Francis’ visit to the United States last week drew massive crowds and created a huge amount of media interest. To understand more about the impact of that visit, the Furman News and Media Relations office asked Dr. Helen Lee Turner, the Reuben B. Pitts Professor of Religion at the university, to reflect on the pope’s trip to America and what it accomplished.