Eighty-three-year-old Rabbi Arthur Waskow has a longer arrest record than the average drug dealer, and he’s proud of it. Waskow’s most recent, his 23rd, came in front of the White House three and a half
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The Capitol Steps, a musical comedy satire group composed in equal of measure of professional actors and congressional staffers, will return to Chautauqua Institution to mock Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Brexit, Barack Obama and just
J. Douglas Holladay believes American men are in crisis, and he has a solution: talking. In the first Interfaith Lecture exploring “Money and Power Through a Spiritual and Ethical Lens” Monday in the Hall
Subagh Singh Khalsa believes in a deeper kind of love. Khalsa, the longtime Sikh Dharma meditation leader and co-director of the Mystic Heart Program, will lead this week’s meditation series, from 7:15 to 8 a.m.
Trevor Potter rode what may be the most improbable path to fame in recent history: late-night comedy by way of the Federal Election Commission. He’s probably the only practicing lawyer your grandson has ever heard
In the final moments of the last lecture of his weeklong series, “Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy,” retired Bishop of Newark John Shelby Spong called for adherents of his figurative view of Scripture to treat
Eleven years before he took power and 17 years before the gassings began, Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf that Christ was nailed to the cross in return for “his fight against the Jewish poison.”
The body of a man who had gone missing Chautauqua Lake was found at 6 a.m. June 30 by the Chautauqua Volunteer Fire Department, ending a search that consumed Chautauqua County emergency services for more than
Having concluded on Monday the Virgin Mary was something less than a virgin, and on Tuesday eliminating Joseph from the Christian narrative altogether, John Shelby Spong turned his sights on the Messiah himself Wednesday
UPDATE: Chautauqua police confirmed that the missing boater's body was found at 6 a.m. this morning. We will have a full update later this afternoon. This story is no longer up to date, but we
In the first five minutes of the 2016 season’s first Interfaith Lecture, John Shelby Spong declared that Jesus’s Virgin Birth is most likely fictional, and the question of whether it’s true or not is largely
The sounds of Cuba are coming to Chautauqua Institution. Tiempo Libre, a three-time Grammy-nominated seven-man ensemble, will perform at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Amphitheater, blending the classical symphonies the Amp has long housed with Afro-Caribbean rhythms to bring a distinctly
In the age of Twitter and WordPress, where anyone with a laptop and a Wi-Fi connection can blast his or her thoughts across the world, Roger Rosenblatt believes there are still titans of literature, and he’s invited them to Chautauqua Institution. Gary Trudeau
In the aftermath of the Orlando shooting and amid arguably the most vitriolic presidential election in recent memory, Paul Lukasik believes mindfulness meditation can bring people together. Lukasik will be leading the first week of