Past Events

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

Can Religion and Politics Make Us More Civil and Not Just Angry? | J. Dionne Jr., Georgetown University

Norman Mailer, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Civil Friendship That Shaped an Uncivil Decade | Kevin M. Schultz, Assistant Professor of History and Catholic Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

How American Christians Learned to Talk About Homosexuality | Mark D. Jordan, Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School

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