In an old makeshift South African schoolroom, crowded with 20 HIV-stricken small children and teeming with the smell of chronic open wounds and a listless whimpering, Subagh Singh Khalsa crouched near the highchair of
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Jesuit Priest Fr. José Gabriel Funes, S.J., fell in love with space 47 years ago to the day he took the stage at the Hall of Philosophy Wednesday afternoon. That was the night a
The biggest thing standing between the United States and an expanded space exploration program is anywhere from 60 million to 100 million born-again Christians. That was political scientist and Red Letter Christian Joshua Ambrosius’
Among Pope Francis’ homilies on the poor, capitalism and global warming, is a teaching he gave in Vatican City in 2014: If an alien asks to be baptized, do it. Francis’ lesson wasn’t so
The worst tragedy in human history went unnoticed by most of the world and unrecorded for centuries. That’s just one revelation of science journalist Charles C. Mann’s 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus,
Friday’s Interfaith Lecture hadn’t even begun, and the applause had already started for Sr. Joan Chittister, O.S.B., who closed the week on “Moral Leadership in Action” with Muslim activist Daisy Khan. The conversation in
A Ralph Reed lecture on the connections between the Declaration of Independence and the Gospels veered quickly into a thinly veiled endorsement of Donald Trump, triggering sharp backlash from a largely anti-Trump crowd
Michael O’Sullivan tripped ankle-first into Zen Buddhist meditation. A longtime New York City detective, O’Sullivan sprained his ankle walking one day about 35 years ago. While in the hospital for the injury, the doctor told
Jim Wallis started writing his latest book when he learned of the death of the Trayvon Martin, and imagined his own son Luke — white, 6 feet tall, 18 and set to play college baseball
Although many regimes around the globe remain intolerant and sectarian conflict still rages, Rabbi David Saperstein said, religious freedom has never been greater and interfaith work never stronger. Speaking on the Interfaith Lecture platform Tuesday
The answer to the Black Lives Matter movement, civil rights icon Andrew Young believes, is for black people to move back to the South. A day before coming to Chautauqua Institution, as Atlantans took the
Arthur C. Brooks, president of the nation’s most prominent conservative think tank and author of The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America, grew up a musician and a
Twenty-five years ago, broadcast journalist Bill Moyers and his team began documenting the lives of two families in Milwaukee whose breadwinners had just been laid off. In the two and a half decades since, both
Walking barefoot across shaded trails of Redwood Valley, California, alongside the yellow-spotted brown salamanders and beneath the trunks of ancient sequoias, Rebecca Cole-Turner found meditation. Now a minister and mystic, she attributes her sense
The Rev. John M. Buchanan wants you to give your life away. Giving your life away, he said, to family, science, the earth, church and anything that aids the rest of the world,
Hours after publishing magnate and editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine Steve Forbes called for freer markets and greater economic growth to solve the world’s ills, David Korten offered not only a point-by-point rebuke of Forbes’