Past Events

The Long Approach to the Mormon Moment: The Building of an American Church | Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

St. Helia Talks Back: Christianity and the Feminization of Rhetorical Voice | Virginia Burrus, Professor of Early Church History and Chair of the Graduate Division of Religion at Drew University

It’s Religion, Stupid, Not the Economy | Barry W. Lynn, Executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State

The Works of Mercy | Daniel Bornstein, Darrow Professor of Catholic Studies, Director of Religious Studies

Commentaries and Originality in Later Islamic Astronomy | George Saliba, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science, Columbia University

The Religious Influence in American War and Diplomacy: A History | Andrew Preston, Senior Lecturer in American History and a Fellow of Clare College at Cambridge University

Atheism | Leigh Schmidt, Edward Mallinckrodt University Professor, Professor of Humanities

Shakespeare: The Merciless and the Merciful | Robert Wiltenburg, Dean of University College

Stop Worrying and Start Sowing! The Ethics of a ‘Recession-Proof’ Gospel | Jonathan Walton, Assistant Professor of African American Religions at Harvard University

Healing the Heart of Democracy | Parker Palmer, Best-selling author, educator, and Center for Courage & Renewal founder and senior partner

Is There Room for Mercy in the Sexuality Debates? Shifting the Terms of our Religious-Political Stalemate | Marie Griffith, Director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics

Courts, Coercion, and Culture: The Meaning of Religion in Public Spaces | Tsvi Blanchard, Senior Fellow and Director of Organizational Development at CLAL

Muslim American Dissent and U.S. Politics Before and After 9/11 | Edward E. Curtis IV, IUPUI

Aristotle Absent | Tony Street, Cambridge University

The Politics of ‘Spiritual But Not Religious’ America | Laura R. Olson, Professor of Political Science, Clemson University

Administering the Sacraments | Daniel Bornstein, Stella K Darrow Professor of Catholic Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

The Spirit of the Law: Separation of Church and State from 1945–1990 | Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania

A ‘Science of Religions,’ So-Called: The Nineteenth-Century Promises and Perils of a New Human Science | Leigh Eric Schmidt, Edward Mallinckrodt University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis

A Radical View of a Radical Jew: Paul, The Apostle | Frank Flinn, Retired Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

The Meanings of Travel in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana | Roshan Abraham, Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies

The Centrality of Philosophy in the Pre-Modern Islamic Intellectual Tradition | Dimitri Gutas, Professor of Arabic and Graeco-Arabic at Yale University

American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us | Robert D. Putnam, Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University

The Prophetic Conflict: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Second World War | William Charles Inboden, University of Texas at Austin

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