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Martha Reilly | Thursday, October 26, 2017
With a Vera Wang clothing line honoring its characters and a Hulu original series adapting its plot, “The Handmaid’s Tale” has flooded modern society, but its author, Margaret Atwood, traced her work back to its sources during Saint Mary’s annual Christian Culture Lecture, which took place in O’Laughlin Auditorium on Wednesday. College President Jan Cervelli
Kathryn Marshall | Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has studied, interacted with and written about numerous presidents of the United States. On Tuesday night, Goodwin shared some of her observations of them with a packed auditorium at her lecture, “Leadership Lessons from the White House.” The talk was the 11th annual Christian Culture Lecture Series, hosted by the Humanistic Studies
Observer Staff Report | Thursday, September 1, 2016
The Saint Mary’s department of humanistic studies announced presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin as this year’s speaker for the Christian Culture Lecture on Oct. 4. According to a press release, Goodwin, called “America’s historian-in-chief,” will explain and analyze the U.S. presidency and discuss how Christianity has influenced governing practices during the lecture.
Kathryn Marshall | Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Philosopher, writer and editor Martha Nussbaum explored the role of anger in movements led by Martin Luther King Jr., Ghandi, and Nelson Mandela in a lecture titled “Anger and Revolutionary Justice” on Wednesday as part of the 10th Christian Culture Lecture at Saint Mary’s. Nussbaum began the lecture by reflecting on an ancient Greek story in
Kiera Johnsen | Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Reza Aslan, internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, explored the life of Jesus and the way it is viewed by modern society in a lecture titled “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” on Tuesday as the 2014 Christian Culture Lecture at Saint Mary’s. In his lecture, based off of his New York Times
Kiera Johnsen | Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Reza Aslan, New York Times-bestselling author, internationally acclaimed scholar of religions and professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, will speak at the 2014 Christian Culture Lecture in O’Laughlin Auditorium on Sept. 16, according to a press release from the Saint Mary’s department of humanistic studies. Aslan will base his lecture, “Zealot: