Whether people regard artificial intelligence as a tool that can turn into either a future friend or a threat, Jason Thacker said the technology is already here. “The reality is that AI is everywhere in
The fall of Adam and Eve by “playing God” could mirror how human civilization eventually falls, Dr. Gerard Magill said in his lecture at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, July 20. Magill connected the Biblical story
“Should I Stay or Should I Go" is more than just a song by the Clash; it also neatly summarizes the debate about the United States starting and ending stay-at-home directives. Thacker For Jason Thacker,
Wayman and Eryl Kubicka answered questions about creation with their “non-understanding of creation” as Zen Buddhists For Week Three’s Interfaith Friday. The lecture was broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, July 17, on the CHQ
To flesh out her multifaceted experiences in her latest work, “Anak Dara,” artist Azzah Sultan had to upgrade her tools to match by experimenting with and doubling down on video, performance and installation aspects. “I
Armed with his cello, four-time Grammy Award-winning musician Eugene Friesen played alone in his Massachusetts home on July 5. His only audience was a fern on a stool in the corner while Friesen played as
Azzah Sultan received her MFA a few months ago from Washington State University. But she has already shown her work in exhibitions in Paris and across the United States in the states of New York,
One of the 10 Commandments states, “thou shalt not make yourself any carved idol of anything that is in heaven or the earth.” But from micrography designs to Jerusalem-inspired architecture, Jewish folk artist David Moss
From Pharaoh's Egypt to Trump’s USA, Georgetown University’s Ori Soltes said that artists have used religious symbols to uphold — and dissent against — political power and control. Soltes is a professor of art history,
Born in 1960s’ Harlem and raised in the Bronx, Tricia Rose said her acute awareness of the inequality she saw in reality played out every time she watched kids’ movies. "I've always had a deep
For the Rev. Willie James Jennings, sin — racism, sexism and weapons of mass destruction, to name a few — is defined as a misalignment of gospel. Jennings represented the perspective of Evangelical Christianity for
Despite the name of Gretta Vosper’s lecture, “Falling in Love with Being Together, Because We Can’t Afford to Fall Apart,” she and the audience were not physically together. “There is one sadness I have today:
Lohr When Hartford Seminary President Joel N. Lohr finds it hard to pray, he doesn't seek words of strength from the Bible or another religious text. He refers instead to a line from "This Spinal
Lief Buddhist Acharya Judith Lief has never not questioned faith. “I find questions more interesting than answers,” Lief said. “Questions open things up while answers close things in.” In her lecture “Human Longing and the
Hogue As a religious naturalist, Michael Hogue doesn’t think humankind is the center of the universe. Hogue opened up the first of Chautauqua’s 2020 Interfaith Friday lectures with how centering nature as a religious naturalist
Salkin Every Sunday, Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin opens The New York Times and counts wedding announcements. It might not be a perfect scientific study or a full picture of reality, but he uses it as a