MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Harder The importance of reading and storytelling is on Cherie Harder’s mind. She believes the way we read and share stories needs to change for the greater good. At 1
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Robert M. Franklin Jr., author of “Moral Leadership: Integrity, Courage, Imagination” delivers his lecture “Does Moral Leadership Still Matter? How America Can Repair” Monday, July 12, 2021 in the Amphitheater.
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Jon Nakamatsu, now a guest faculty member at the School of Music, plays Vladimir Horowitz’s personal piano during a special demonstration for students and Chautauquans on July 27, 2018, in
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER McGhee Born on the south side of Chicago and educated in American studies at Yale University, Heather McGhee was in her early 20s when she joined Demos, a think tank
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Franklin As made evident from his profession, the James T. and Berta R. Laney Professor in Moral Leadership at Emory University, the Rev. Robert M. Franklin Jr. is someone who
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Gary Laderman, Goodrich C. White Professor of American Religious History and Cultures at Emory University, delivers his lecture “Faith in Drugs: America’s Religious Future” Wednesday, July 7, 2021 on the
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Margarita Simon Guillory, associate professor of religion and African American studies at Boston University, delivers her lecture “To Boldly Go: Technological Frontiers and the Changing Landscape of American Religion” Tuesday,
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Laderman When it comes to death, religion and drugs, Gary Laderman is the man with the answers. “Laderman has become the foremost ‘death expert’ in American life,” according to a
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Auburn Seminary President The Rev. Katharine Rhodes Henderson delivers her lecture “Living Between Precarity and the Promise” Monday, July 5, 2021 on the Amphitheater stage. DAVE MUNCH/PHOTO EDITOR You can’t
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Guillory Not everyone would be impassioned by both science and religion. Yet they are Margarita Simon Guillory’s beloved areas of expertise. For the last seven years, she has been in
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Henderson When she was 9 years old, the Rev. Katharine Rhodes Henderson learned about the Holocaust, or as she put it, “the evil that people can do to each other.”
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Teaching is what philosopher Robin R. Wang does best, and this week she made her first visit to Chautauqua to teach the fundamentals of Taoism, Yin Yang and body cultivation.
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Fenggang Yang, founding director of the Center on Religion and the Global East at Purdue University, delivers his lecture “The Changing Religious Landscape in Modernizing China” Tuesday, June 29, 2021
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Kelly James Clark, author of A Spiritual Geography of Early Chinese Thought, Gods, Ancestors and Afterlife, delivers his lecture of the same name Monday in the Amphitheater as part of
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Wang To understand China and life, Robin Wang believes Taoism holds many answers. Taoism is an ancient Chinese philosophy now practiced around the world. Taoists focus on harmonizing with the
YANG MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER It wasn’t until graduate school that Fenggang Yang realized the importance of religion. He was raised atheist and didn’t follow any religious tradition. “Even my family tradition didn’t care