Graduate Theological Union
Signature Lectures (audio)
Can Religion Meet the Challenge of Human Evolution?
Robert Bellah, Elliot Professor of Sociology Emeritus, UC Berkeley
Twentieth Annual Surjit Singh Lecture in Comparative Religious Thought
and Culture, February 28, 2012
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What Does Scholarship Have to Do with Activism? Reflections on 15 Years in the Trenches
Mary Ann Tolbert (PSR), George H. Atkinson Professor of Biblical Studies ">Listen to the lecture
Judith Berling (GTU)—respondent
Distinguished Faculty Lecture, November 8, 2011
The Modern-Day Abolitionist Movement: What Smart Activists are doing to Re-Abolish Slavery
David Batstone (Ph.D. '89) ">Listen to the lecture
Eighth Annual McCoy Memorial Lecture on Religion, Ethics, and Public Life, April 26, 2011
Being Interfaith Now: New Dimensions in American Religious Pluralism
Kate McCarthy (Ph.D. '94) (presentation) ">Listen to the lecture
Twentieth Annual Surjit Singh Lecture in Comparative Religious Thought
and Culture, April 12, 2011
Will Spirituality Have a Past?
Arthur Holder (GTU), Dean and VP for Academic Affairs ">Listen to the lecture
Mary Ann Donovan (JST), Susan Phillips (NCB), Joseph Driskill (PSR)—respondents
Distinguished Faculty Lecture, November 9, 2010
The Death of "Death Panels": Reforming End-of-Life Decision Making
Margaret McLean (Ph.D. '97) ">Listen to the lecture
Seventh Annual McCoy Memorial Lecture on Religion, Ethics, and Public Life, April 27, 2010
The Theology of Forgiveness from a Comparative Perspective
Anri Morimoto; introduction by Jeffrey Kuan (PSR) ">Listen to the introduction ">Listen to the lecture
Nineteenth Annual Surjit Singh Lecture in Comparative Religious Thought
and Culture, April 13, 2010
Awkward and Alive: Secularization and Religion Reconsidered
Philip Wickeri; Eduardo Feranández, S.J., respondent ">Listen to the presentation ">Listen to the response
2009 Distinguished Faculty Lecture*, November 17, 2009
*We honor and remember the life and work of Claude Welch, former Dean and President of GTU, who founded the Distinguished Faculty Lecture series.
Religion, Ethics, and Media
Michael Krasny and James A. Donahue ">Listen to the presentation ">Listen to the Q&A
Sixth Annual McCoy Memorial Lecture on Religion, Ethics, and Public Life, May 4, 2009
Rethinking the Discourse: The U.S. and the Muslim World
Shibley Telhami ">Listen to the Lecture ">Listen to the Q&A
Eighteenth Annual Surjit Singh Lecture in Comparative Religious Thought and Culture, April 21, 2009
Learning to Speak a New Tongue: Imagining a Way that Holds People Together
Fumitaka Matsuoka ">Listen to the Lecture (NOTE: incomplete recording)
2008 Distinguished Faculty Lecture, November 11, 2008
