GPL is pleased to present local author, historian, and philanthropist George McCully who will talk about his book Christianity
Then and Now: Can it Be Saved? which presents an authoritative definition of Christianity based on a new
analysis of John’s Gospel and later leaders and concludes with an original history of secularization and a
proposed strategy of updates needed today for recovery from fatal subversion by secularity.

George McCully has had two careers: first for twenty years as a professor of Renaissance and
Reformation history and related subjects at Barnard, Columbia, Swarthmore, Princeton, Yale and
Wellesley. After brief service as a faculty dean at Brown, he became a grant-maker and by 1983 an
independent consultant in all aspects of philanthropy. He was founding Board Chair of the national
Center for Plant Conservation, longtime institutional development consultant to the world-leading
Boston Early Music Festival and trustee of the Ellis L. Phillips Foundation. In 1996 he created the
Massachusetts “Catalogue for Philanthropy,” which led to a doubling of Massachusetts giving in only
four years and pioneered donor education nationwide. He resides in South Deerfield, MA.