Interfaith Lecture Series

Interfaith Lecture Series

3 Seasons

The Interfaith Lecture Series is designed to present issues that impact the lived experience of everyday life from theological, religious, spiritual, ethical, and humanitarian perspectives.

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.

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Interfaith Lecture Series
  • Adam Jortner

    Episode 1

    Premiering at 2 p.m. ET Wednesday, July 27, 2022.

    To view this live program with Closed Captions, please visit https://chq.org/chq-assembly-captioned-events/ and enter password: CHQcaptions

    Adam Jortner is the Goodwin-Philpott Professor of Religion at Auburn University, where he studies religio...

  • Anthea Butler

    Episode 2

    Originally broadcast at 2:00 p.m. ET Thursday, July 28, 2022.

    Anthea Butler is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social thought and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A historian of African American and American religion, Professor Butler’s research and writ...

  • Wajahat Ali

    Episode 3

    Originally broadcast at 2:00 p.m. ET Friday, July 29, 2022.

    Wajahat Ali is an author, a Daily Beast columnist, former New York Times contributing op-ed writer, highly sought-after political commentator, TED speaker, and award-winning playwright – and across these many roles, one thing remains co...

  • Mark Nepo

    Episode 4

    Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. ET Monday, August 1, 2022.

    Mark Nepo is a poet and spiritual adviser who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over 40 years. With over a million copies sold, Mark has moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his #1 New York...

  • Mirabai Starr

    Episode 5

    Originally broadcast at 2:00 p.m. ET Tuesday, August 2, 2022.

    Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author of creative non-fiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. She taught Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for 20 years, and now teaches and spe...

  • Monica Coleman

    Episode 6

    Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. ET Wednesday, August 3, 2022.

    Monica A. Coleman is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware. She spent over ten years in graduate theological education at Claremont School of Theology, the Center for Process Studies, and Lutheran School of Theol...

  • Rabbi Rami Shapiro

    Episode 7

    Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. ET Thursday, August 4, 2022.

    Rabbi Rami Shapiro is an award-winning author of over thirty-six books on religion and spirituality. A Jewish practitioner of Perennial Wisdom, the four-fold truth at the mystic heart of all religion, he received rabbinical ordination ...

  • Katherine May

    Episode 8

    Originally broadcast at 2:00 p.m. ET Friday, August 5, 2022.

    Katherine May is the New York Times bestselling author of Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times. A writer of both fiction and nonfiction, May has had journalism and essays appear in a range of publications includi...

  • Dr. Sandeep Jauhar

    Episode 9

    Originally broadcast at 2:00 p.m. ET Monday, August 8, 2022.

    Dr. Sandeep Jauhar is a practicing cardiologist, whose expertise, research, and passion have revealed scientifically how emotions not only affect heart health, but how they actually shape the heart. A graduate of Washington University ...

  • Kelly Corrigan

    Episode 10

    Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. ET Tuesday, August 9, 2022.

    Kelly Corrigan is a best-selling author, breast cancer survivor, and Host of the PBS series Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan. She may not be in school anymore, but that hasn’t stopped her from being a student for life. This successful j...

  • Dave Isay

    Episode 11

    Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. ET Wednesday, August 10, 2022.

    A trusted addition to this week focusing on stories of life’s foundational relationships, Dave Isay’s work taps into the heart and soul of the human experience. One of the most trusted and respected broadcasters working today, he is t...

  • Alia J. Bilal

    Episode 12

    Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. ET Thursday, August 11, 2022.

    Alia J. Bilal serves as Deputy Executive Director at the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN), a non-profit community organization based in Chicago that fosters health, wellness, and healing in the inner-city by organizing for socia...

  • Congressman Jamie Raskin

    Episode 13

    Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. ET Monday, August 15, 2022.

    Congressman Jamie Raskin will begin the afternoon Interfaith Lecture presentations of this week’s 10 lecture focus on New Profiles in Courage, a conversation that he had begun in his recently released book, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, an...

  • Atiya Aftab and Sheryl Olitzky

    Episode 14

    Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. ET Tuesday, August 16, 2022.

    This program is made possible by the Dr. William N. Jackson Religious Initiative Fund

    Atiya Aftab, Esq. is cofounder of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, an international women’s interfaith organization. An attorney, educator, and activ...

  • The Very Reverend Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas in conversation with Darren Walker

    Episode 15

    Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. ET Wednesday, August 17, 2022.

    This program is made possible by the Eleanor B. Daugherty Fund

    The Very Reverend Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas was named Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Theology at Union in September 20...

  • Robert P. George

    Episode 16

    Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. ET Thursday, August 18, 2022.

    Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, where his numerous areas of expertise include moral and political philosoph...

  • Eboo Patel

    Episode 17

    Originally broadcast at 2:00 p.m. ET Monday, August 22, 2022.

    Eboo Patel is the Founder and President of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), a non-profit organization working to make interfaith cooperation a social norm in America. He is a respected leader on national issues of religious diversity, ci...

  • Dr. Yolanda Pierce

    Episode 18

    Originally broadcast at 2:00 p.m. ET Tuesday, August 23, 2022.

    Dr. Yolanda Pierce is Professor and Dean of the Howard University School of Divinity. She is a scholar of African American religious history, womanist theology, race and religion, and an alumna of Princeton University and Cornell Uni...

  • Laura Limonic

    Episode 19

    Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. ET Wednesday, August 24, 2022.

    Laura Limonic is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of Old Westbury of the State University of New York. Her research is in the area of contemporary immigration to the United States and the integration trajectories of ...

  • Lama Rod Owens

    Episode 20

    Originally broadcast at 2:00 p.m. ET Thursday, August 25, 2022.

    Lama Rod Owens is an author, Buddhist minister, activist, yoga instructor, and authorized Lama in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. He is one of the leading American Buddhist voices and teaches regularly online and around the wo...

  • Robert P. Jones

    Episode 21

    Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. ET Friday, August 26, 2022.

    Robert P. Jones is the CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the author of White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, which won the 2021 American Book Award. He is also the author o...