Lake Street Dive recorded their first CD after they won a prize in the 2009 international John Lennon Songwriting Contest. It all started in 2004. The group — singer Rachael Price, trumpeter and guitarist Michael
Rabbi Arthur Waskow opened his talk with a song. He sang the final verse of “America the Beautiful” to begin his lecture “The Declaration of Independence: What Would Jefferson Write Today?” as part of Week
When James Joseph was the U.S. ambassador to South Africa, “an invitation to the American Fourth of July was one of the hottest tickets.” Joseph spent this Fourth of July at Chautauqua Institution, where Tuesday
Before Khalid Qazi said anything else in his Interfaith Lecture, he offered a simple blessing: “Peace be with you all.” Qazi, founding president and senior adviser at the Muslim Public Affairs Council of Western New
As a young boy in New England, Brian Skerry dreamed of being an astronaut or a scientist. But when his parents would take him to those New England beaches, when he would lay eyes on
Alec Ryrie is in favor of dropping the “-isms” from his vocabulary. “The history of religion, it seems to me, is the history of people,” he said. “It too often gets told as a set
A voice has been given to the voiceless — and it is perfectly in tune. Richard Bogomolny, creator of the Violins of Hope Project,” will host a presentation and Q-and-A for the “Violins of Hope”
Like most kids raised in suburban America, Ed Feinstein went to Hebrew school. Or at least that’s what he joked in the beginning of his lecture titled “Chutzpah: God and Humanity in the Jewish Religious
Mystic Heart Meditation Program leaders this week come from different spiritual backgrounds, but their mission is the same. Teachers Rebecca Cole-Turner, United Church of Christ minister and spiritual director, and Ron Cole-Turner, H. Parker Sharp
Make sure not to cling to anything or anyone too tightly. Laurie Patton, president of Middlebury College, discussed releasing the stronghold on life in her talk “Your Face Glows like a Person who knows Brahman:
If every person in the world had to fill out paperwork, and check a box noting their religion, about 55,000 would check “other” and subsequently write “Zoroastrianism” on the line. As his title suggests, Rohinton
Being a dreamer has always been dangerous. Religion and dream research psychologist Kelly Bulkeley said so in Monday’s Interfaith Lecture Series in the Hall of Philosophy, in his address “Big Dreams: The Science of Dreaming
The Mystic Heart Meditation Program has new blood pumping through its veins for the 2017 season. Coordinated by Subagh Singh Khalsa, director of Mystic Heart, the daily meditation sessions will nearly double in comparison to