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Winter / Spring 2010 Lecture Series
How To Think About Health Care Reform
Wednesday, January 20
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Callahan
Who is right about health care? As Congress and the Senate try to reconcile their different health care bills, come listen to a penetrating analysis by the co-founder of the Hastings Center (formerly located in Briarcliff) and co-director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Care Policy.
Pilgrimage:
"An Evening With Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Thomas Merton and Dorothy"
Tuesday, March 23
Speaker: Paul Elie
A writer and editor at Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Elie will examine the pilgrimages of Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy and Flannery O'Connor as a way of understanding the contemporary quandaries of American Catholics and their Church.
Jesus and Muhammad
In the Eyes of Modern Judaism
Thursday, April 8
Speaker: Susannah Heschel
How have Jews, Christians and Muslims changed in their understanding of each other? Susannah Heschel, chair of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth and daughter of the great Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel surveys the past, present and future of inter-faith scholarship. NOTE: This is lecture is at our invitation co-sponsored by Congregation Sons of Israel and will be held at the synagogue a half mile east of the church at 1666 Pleasantville Road. Please join us there at 7:30 pm for this exceptional inter-faith event.
Souls in Transition:
The Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults
Monday, May 3
Speaker: Christian Smith
Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith returns with the results of his path-breaking study of the religious and spiritual lives of 18-to-24 year olds, a follow-up to his eye opening lecture here on American teenagers. This is a must-hear lecture for parents, grandparents and emerging adults.
St. Theresa's Lecture Series is an expression of its mission as a church and offered as a service to the community. Admission is free and open to the public.
All lectures except the Heschel event are held at 7:30 pm at the church, 1394 Pleasantville Road, Briarcliff Manor.
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