In a digital age where tablets and smartphones make hundreds of thousands of books and magazines available in an instant, author Roger Rosenblatt and friends
Lectures
In the first five minutes of the 2016 season’s first Interfaith Lecture, John Shelby Spong declared that Jesus’s Virgin Birth is most likely fictional, and
Theodore Roosevelt once called Chautauqua Institution “the most American thing in America.” As governor of New York, Roosevelt visited the Institution on Aug. 19, 1899, and gave a spirited talk from a balcony at
“We need a better God than the one we have. Our God atrophies and becomes puny and we are stuck in fifth grade asking God to let
Roger Rosenblatt, a well-known novelist, playwright, essayist and professor, first spoke at Chautauqua Institution in 1985. Nine years later, he delivered the second-ever Chautauqua Lecture,
The Ku Klux Klan voted John Shelby Spong public enemy No. 1 in the 1960s. The now-retired Episcopal bishop of Newark was living in a
The first summer Roger Rosenblatt hosted a week at Chautauqua Institution, “Doonesbury” creator Garry Trudeau helped him close out the series. Eight years later, Trudeau
“Whoopi Goldberg was asked in an interview who she admired most. She said ‘Pope Francis, because he’s going with the original program,’ ” said Fr. Greg
Prolific, Emmy Award-winning, self-taught Canadian film and television producer-director Paul Saltzman has long been creating culturally significant and groundbreaking films, and generating community dialogue that
When Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J., started working with gang members 30 years ago, he found that people easily demonized them. “It was going uphill to
This summer, the CLSC Young Readers program will take youth on a journey of discovery, engaging their minds in the conversations that unfold on the