Interfaith Lecture Series Schedule

The theme of the fourteenth season (2012-13) of the Glastonbury Interfaith Lecture Series: Listening to Other Voices is: "Faith and the Common Good" is nearing completion. Our last lecture for this season is:

The first five lecturers for this season were:

October 18, 2012 - Barney Frank, US Congressman

November 15, 2012 - Mary Jo Bane, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

January 17, 2013 - Andrew Olendzki, Ph.D., Barre (MA) Center for Buddhist Studies

February 14, 2013 - Rabbi Leonard Gordon, Congregation Mishkan Tefila, Chestnut Hill, MA

March 14, 2013 - Dr. Vincent D. Rougeau, Dean of Boston College School of Law, Chestnut Hill, MA

Thank you to all who have supported the 2011-12 (thirteenth) season of our interfaith lecture series, “Listening to Other Voices”. This past year the theme was "Without A Vision the People Perish: Why a Religious Tradition?" The following lectures were presented:

October 13, 2011 - Imam Sohaib N. Sultan
In the Footsteps of Mohammed: The Spiritual Path of Islam

November 17, 2011 - Dr. John Haught, Ph.D.
Darwin, God and the Dream of Life

January 19, 2012 - Rev. Dr. Gloria White Hammond, M.D., M.Div.
The Black Religious Tradition: A Life Force

February 9, 2012 - Dr. Mark Burrows, Ph.D., Obl.S.B.
The Mystical Way: Windows Toward a More Inclusive World

March 8, 2012 - Dr. Lori Lefkovitz, Ph.D.
Reconstructing Jewish Religious Practices for Future Generations

April 12, 2012 - Joseph Marshall III
Mitakuye Oyasin: The Lakota Way of Spirituality

May 8 , 2012 - Fr. John Dear, S.J.
Lazarus, Come Forth! - How Jesus Confronts the Culture of Death and Invites Us into the New Life of Peace.

All lectures are held in the Abbey Center at 7:15 PM.   They are free and open to the public.  A good will offering is requested to help support this long running series.