For 20 years, Kainat Felicia Norton and Muinuddin Charles Smith have led Sufi meditations in Chautauqua’s Mystic Heart Program. But Aug. 14 marks their first time discussing Sufism on an Interfaith Friday with Vice President
Levy Is religion the opiate of the masses, as Karl Marx said? Rabbi Naomi Levy doesn’t think so. “Religion can wake you up to your power,” Levy told her virtual lecture audience at 2 p.m.
Taylor Whether a person joins a 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program or a social movement, whether they start a family or a nonprofit, whether they speak to people or trees, the Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor said
The story of creation in the first Book of Genesis is not science, Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller said. That doesn’t mean it should be discounted. “It’s a religious teaching that proposes to inject meaning and value
Goldman Columbia University’s Ari Goldman thinks that without religious literacy, a journalist runs the risk of misinforming the public. “When done right, journalism can educate and inform the public,” Goldman said. “When done wrong, it
On the day of the Chabad of Poway synagogue shooting on April 27, 2019, the late Lori Gilbert Kaye was there to sing the mourner’s kaddish in honor of her late mother. “(The shooter) killed
Marcus With an Italian Roman Catholic mother and a humanist Jewish father, the sometimes-heated religious conversations Benjamin Marcus witnessed between his parents provided “productive tension” that helped him to form his own understanding of his
Reporters on any beat are going to write about death in a COVID-19 world, Columbia Journalism School’s Ari Goldman said, and he teaches his students how to do just that. Goldman said in a Dart
Beals Judy Beals’ favorite quote from former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is also an antithesis to Beals’ pitch for injecting religion into cultural context. “Diplomats in my era were taught not to invite trouble,
martin Details in the story of creation depend on who is telling it among the Haudenosaunee people — comprised of the Senecas, Oneidas, Mohawks, Cuyahogas, Onondagas and the Tuscaroras. Michael Martin, an Onondaga who was
Valarie Kaur said George Floyd and 5-year-old Skylar Herbert, who was the first child to die from COVID-19 in Michigan, died of the same root cause. “Skylar’s face and George Floyd’s face live side by
Feminine spirituality, Mirabai Starr said, is a paradox in a world that prioritizes masculine energy and attitudes. “The feminine inhabits this paradoxical space between form and formlessness, between interconnection and very specific embodied experience,” Starr
Equality. “Good event, bad event. Who knows?” Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister framed each expansion of women’s legal rights with this question. While women gained new legal freedoms over time, remaining social and legal restrictions would
Harper Black. Indigenous. Colonized. To Lisa Sharon Harper, this is Jesus. “People of African descent and other people who have been colonized around the world, when they read the text for themselves, irrespective of what
For centuries, technology simply amplified humans’ physical abilities. A hammer amplifies the force of an arm. A telescope helps us see something far away. But Noreen Herzfeld said the difference in modern technology like computers
The Avett Brothers would have performed at the Chautauqua Amphitheater for the third time on July 22, 2020, after speaking at the Hall of Philosophy about their faith journeys earlier that day — if everything