Though Russia is no longer subject to strict communist controls, its presidents have still sought out nationwide approval. Part of
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It was once known as “Holy Russia,” a land filled with spiritual heritage that was strongly in touch with the
Ori Z. Soltes has never encountered a country as religiously obsessed as the United States, a country that prides itself
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Ori Z. Soltes, teaching professor at the Center for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University, delivers
ILLUSTRATION BY MADELINE DEABLER/DIGITAL EDITOR Ori Soltes has been a pass holder to his “grown-up Disneyland” of Chautauqua Institution for
Gorbachev, Lenin, Stalin and Putin went beyond imagining the godless world John Lennon sang about — they built it. At
Georgetown University Professor Ori Z. Soltes speaks during the Afternoon Lecture on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 in the Hall of Philosophy. HALDAN KIRSCH/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Georgetown University Professor Ori Z. Soltes speaks during the Afternoon Lecture on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 in the Hall of Philosophy. HALDAN KIRSCH/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
During the Cold War, the term “godless Russia” was used by some Americans who perceived the Soviet Union strictly as
“What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and three legs in the evening?”
If the average Chautauquan didn’t know the answer to this riddle, he would have been punished by the plague in Sophocles’ play “Oedipus the King.” What he also probably didn’t know was that this riddle highlights an “eternal triangle” of art, religion and politics.
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Nancey Murphy, senior professor of Christian philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary, speaks Wednesday in the
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Bruce Greyson, author of After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and