MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Joshua Stafford leads sacred song during evening service on Sunday August 22, 2021 in the Amphitheater. KRISTEN TRIPLETT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Josh Stafford entered the 2021 Chautauqua season excited, but hesitant. With
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Diana Butler Bass closes the 2021 Interfaith Lecture Series with her talk, “Get Up and Go On — Together,” Wednesday in the Amphitheater. KRISTEN TRIPLETT / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Sifan Hassan
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Hill The Rev. Shantell Hinton Hill won’t stop until her mission for equity is complete. Born a half-hour north of Little Rock in Conway, Arkansas, Hill is an equity officer
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon and co-founder of Narrative 4, delivers his lecture “Resilience: The Life You Find in Your Stories …” Tuesday in the Amphitheater. DAVE MUNCH / PHOTO
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers, rabbi and cantor at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh, delivers his lecture “A Ticket to Ride: The Roller Coaster of Resilience” on Monday in
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Bass Closing the 2021 Interfaith Lecture Series at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 25 in the Amphitheater is author, speaker and preacher Diana Butler Bass. Her lecture, titled “Get Up and
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER McCann Colum McCann is all about bringing people together, no matter what seemingly insurmountable obstacles might exist. He’s done so most recently in his February 2020 novel Apeirogon, which in
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Myers On the morning of Oct. 27, 2018, as Shabbat services took place, a gunman opened fire on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing 11 people. Rabbi Hazzan
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Hart Forget drug use. Let’s look at other problems. That’s the perspective of Carl L. Hart, the Ziff Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. He will present an African American
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Nancey Murphy, senior professor of Christian philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary, speaks Wednesday in the Amphitheater to close the Week Eight Interfaith Lecture Series theme of “The Human Soul: Our
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Bruce Greyson, author of After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond, speaks Tuesday in the Amphitheater. DAVE MUNCH/PHOTO EDITOR There can’t be anything beyond the
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Ori Z. Soltes, teaching professor at the Center for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University, delivers his lecture “What Are We? Three Early Visions and Versions of the Soul” Monday in
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Murphy What is “post” about postliberal theology? Nancey Murphy, with her late husband, wondered that at a conference with several lectures dedicated to the subject. “We realized these were philosophers
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Greyson Nobody knows what happens to us when we die, but Bruce Greyson, through research and observations spanning a half-century, may have a decent guess at least of what happens
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Soltes Often a speaker at Chautauqua’s Interfaith Lecture Series has one or two primary areas of expertise, or studies of interest. Not Ori Z. Soltes. Soltes is a professor of
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Fletcher Using his own brain, Angus Fletcher thought of a different way of understanding every human’s brain. “When I started out in neuroscience research, everyone had a lot of different