August 25, 2011
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To close this week’s Interfaith Lecture Series, the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell and Rex Ellis are going to compile the week’s ideas and information to encourage the audience to do one thing: take action.
“It’ll be a wind-up, really, of the whole week, and we’ll bring it into the present. If we hold these truths to be self-evident, well, what are these truths, and do we follow them?” Campbell said, adding that today’s lecture will bring the theme full circle.
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August 24, 2011
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From research to papers, videos to music, Roger Guenveur Smith has been reenacting Frederick Douglass’ life since he was an undergraduate in college.
At 2 p.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy, Smith will choose recitation as his method of interpretation for the Chautauqua audience. He will recite Douglass’ speech from 1815 about what the Fourth of July means to African-Americans.
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August 23, 2011
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When Richard Josey was 10 years old, Rex Ellis, a deacon at Josey’s church, encouraged him to get involved with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation as a child actor-interpreter.
Fifteen years later, Josey and Ellis both are actor-interpreters and will perform together at Chautauqua. At 2 p.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy, Josey will take the form of Peter, an enslaved man during the Civil War. In this performance, “Promises of Freedom,” Josey has the star role. But 10 other members of Colonial Williamsburg also will give their reflections of slavery as interpreters of other enslaved people.
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August 22, 2011
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More than 20 members of Colonial Williamsburg will visit Chautauqua this week as character-interpreters of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay and other influential people from the Civil War era.
At 2 p.m. today and Wednesday in the Hall of Philosophy, actor-interpreters from Colonial Williamsburg will perform interpretations of speeches and moments in history that reflect America’s struggle through slavery and the Civil War, and how these events still influence the present.
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August 21, 2011
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Near the beginning of the Declaration of Independence, there are seven words that all Americans probably know by heart — “We hold these truths to be self-evident.”
The theme for this week’s Interfaith Lecture Series, which takes a modern-day look at civil rights, is exactly these seven words. But the week opens with a discussion of Constitutional history and how this document, like the Declaration of Independence, provides historical context for present-day problems.
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August 14, 2011
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When Amy-Jill Levine was little, she wanted to be the pope. Pope John XXIII was “good for the Jews,” as Levine’s mother said, got to live in Italy and eat spaghetti, was loved by everyone, got to ride around in a cool car and wave to people and was always on TV.
“You can’t,” responded Levine’s Jewish mother jokingly, “because you’re not Italian.”
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August 7, 2011
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Like Christianity and economics, Joerg Rieger and John Dominic Crossan are two very differently shaped pieces of the same puzzle.
At 2 p.m. today, and for the rest of this week, in the Hall of Philosophy, Crossan and Rieger will introduce the theme “The Heart and Soul of Money.” Crossan will take the perspective of the Bible, and Rieger will take that of Christian theology.
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August 3, 2011
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The Western stereotype, especially in post-9/11 America, is that countries in the Middle East are radical — radically violent, radically restrictive and radically undemocratic. Often, Islam gets sucked into the stereotype of being radical in only negative ways.
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August 2, 2011
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Charles Kimball is an ordained Baptist minister with a Jewish heritage and a doctorate in Comparative Religion with a specialization in Islamic studies. So it makes sense that his career does not revolve around one particular religion.
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August 1, 2011
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Chess is a game of strategy. There are two players, one board and 16 game pieces that attack and capture the opponent’s pieces. The game either ends with a checkmate, resignation of an opponent or a stalemate. It was invented by Iranians.
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Greenhouse to take audience on her journey out of Christian Science
Gergen: Millennials should learn from the World War II generation
Hoffman fights for women’s rights inside secular Judaism, at Western Wall
President Roosevelt: ‘I Have Seen War. I Hate War.’
Dybul: Eliminate preventable diseases for ‘a more perfect world’
Fish: Value of arts, humanities found in pleasure we take in them
No power? No problem.
Through his photography, Reza ‘shakes the hearts of people’
Writers’ Center workshops help Chautauquan get published
BTG seeks historical input for 100th anniversary in 2013
138th assembly draws to close with Becker’s Sunday address
Hillcrest Concert Band brings worldly program to Amp
Holbert to preach on season’s final Sunday
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