week four

COLUMN BY MICHAEL E. HILL Welcome to Week Four at Chautauqua. As I write this message to you, we are completing the first third of our Summer Assembly — a most remarkable one that is

A few months ago, Silas Farley was on track to become a soloist for — and maybe one day the principal dancer of — the New York City Ballet. Now he has his sights set

Rabbi Deborah Waxman She’s the first woman rabbi to lead both a Jewish seminary and congregational union, and the first lesbian to have risen to the level of national and professional Jewish leadership she currently enjoys.

It’s Fr. Richard Rohr’s hope that his interfaith lectures will give people “intelligent compassion,” for themselves and for others. “If the only agenda that’s given to you is what I call the ‘first half of