Acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh explores the impact of global warming on the craft of narrative fiction in his latest work—The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. Ghosh will discuss this timely work with Insight Program
Bestselling author and award-winning physicist Brian Greene will discuss the cosmic philosophical implications of modern physics. What are we to make of quantum physics, with its paradoxical descriptions of reality; or of string theory, with
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Join us for a conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer as she helps us rethink, reimagine and, renarrate our relationship to the sacred and the natural world. Can the objective, data-driven approach of science be enriched by
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The fallout from twenty years of neoliberal economic globalism has sparked a surge of interest in the old idea of democratic socialism. Gary Dorrien will address the expansive and ambitious intellectual history of this topic, and his
An exploration of Whitman’s call in Leaves of Grass to “judge not as the judge judges but as the sun falling round a helpless thing.” Whitman’s inflects Jesus’s “judge not” as a call for radical democrats to
After 24 years and almost 3000 chapels, ceremonies, exhibits, and public events, Troy is retiring as Director and Visiting Assistant Professor of Worship at Union Seminary. To say thanks and mark the end of “this”
A solemn observance of the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans to be sold into bondage in the U.S. This multi-faith service is presented by The Riverside Church, Union Theological Seminary, and
This event brings forth Latinx and Caribbean voices that are historically and strategically ignored in political and cultural discourses among mainstream media, academic circles, and religious institutions. Moderated by Rev. Samuel Cruz, Phd. of Union
A distinguished panel of interfaith scholars and leaders leads a discussion of Pope Francis’ new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti. Pope Francis’ encyclical Fratelli Tutti (“brothers and sisters, all”), released on October 4, 2020, develops at length
Join us on Thursday, February 25 from 5:30 – 7:00 pm EST for a virtual event reflecting on the recent PBS film series The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song. In partnership
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