Originally broadcast at 9:15 a.m. EDT Friday, July 10, 2020.
Rev. Traci deVon Blackmon delivers a homily based on a scripture reading from 1 Samuel 17:32-37 NRSV.
Blackmon is the Associate General Minister of Justice and Local Church Ministries for The United Church of Christ and Senior Pastor of Christ The King United Church of Christ in Florissant, MO.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Friday, July 10, 2020.
Derek Thompson discusses what life might look like after this moment’s most disruptive unseen force, the novel coronavirus.
Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he writes on economics, technology and the media. He is al...
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, July 10, 2020.
The Rev. Willie James Jennings teaches in the areas of theology, black church and Africana studies.
Jennings is the author of The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race, which is now a standard text read in colleges, se...
Originally broadcast at 3:30 PM EDT Friday, July 10, 2020.
Jon Schmitz looks at the origins and meaning of some traditions that have emerged over the years.
Schmitz has served as the archivist and historian for Chautauqua Institution since 2003.
This series is made possible with a gift from ...