Americans today are experiencing a bit more anxiety than they are used to; much of it comes from the “shared disadvantage” and lack of understanding of history. Shadi Hamid, senior fellow in the Brookings Institution’s
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Artemis Joukowsky III began his lecture by asking the Hall of Philosophy audience to close their eyes — or keep them opened, whatever they preferred — so he could pray for direction. “God of all
If audience members agreed with something the Rev. John C. Welch said, he wanted them to respond with a bold “Amen!” Several shouts of affirmation were heard from in and outside the pillars of the
After sitting in the benches of the Hall of Philosophy “hundreds of times,” Robert H. Jackson Center co-founder Gregory L. Peterson wanted to start Friday’s dual lecture in a new format, unfamiliar to the venue’s
Not all yoga instructors wear Lululemon pants. At least, that’s what David Gluck says. Gluck, a Toronto-based Japa yoga instructor, and Subagh Singh Khalsa, director of the Mystic Heart Meditation Program, will team up in
In the course of 40 minutes, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin sought to tell 50 jokes. Rightfully so, as he titled his lecture “The Fifty Best Jewish Jokes and What They Say about the Human Condition,” part
In Arabic, “Insh’Allah” means “if God wills.” When comedian Dean Obeidallah was in a Jordanian restaurant, he asked an employee where the bathroom was. After pointing him in the right direction, the employee remarked, “Insh’Allah.”
The Rev. Susan Sparks’ father, Herb, told her life only required two tools: WD-40 and duct tape. Sparks and Rabbi Bob Alper, two-thirds of the comedic trio on the Laugh in Peace Tour, recounted several
The Rev. Christopher Leighton said his Interfaith Lecture being scheduled after comedian Lewis Black’s morning lecture was “cruel and unusual punishment.” Leighton’s talk, titled “Going Over the Edge: a Christian Approach to Humor,” jokingly addressed
As a child, she was attending Boys’ and Girls’ Club. In her teenage years, she was one of Club’s camp counselors for seven years. And today, all of her children have attended and been Club
In his 1957 “Birth of a New Nation” speech, Martin Luther King Jr. describes America’s ideal trajectory as a “beloved community.” Alan Mittleman, Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the
According to a 1955 pamphlet, “A Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence,” power comes in three forms: America’s designated authority figures, its citizens and the idea of power itself. The Rev. Jacqui Lewis, senior
Sometimes meditation is the best medicine. Michael O’Sullivan, senior Dharma teacher in the Kwan Um School of Zen, plans to share this belief, and several others, during Week Six’s Mystic Heart Meditation Program. Kim Hehr,
Omar Bayramoglu and Nikhat Noorani are folding a blue Power Rangers bed sheet they were sitting on before starting their event “Jew, Christian, Muslim … Ask Us Anything” July 20 on Bestor Plaza. “I worked
In the literature speakers received prior to giving their interfaith lectures this week at Chautauqua Institution, they were asked to reflect on how how the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. were “informing the moral
In the case of Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance was constitutional. So divisive was the public