Swope Past Lectures
October
2023
19
Alumni + Family
Lectures
Fall '23 Swope Lecture: What's Jesus Got to Do With It? Anticipating the Demise of Cultural Christianity
The Swope Endowed Lectures are pleased to welcome Ann Holmes Redding back to Puget S...
7:30 pm
- 9 pm
April
2023
13
Alumni + Family
Arts
Lectures
Spring '23 Swope Lecture: Nefesh Mountain in Song & Story
All are welcome to our Spring '23 Swope Endowed Lecture, featuring the artists of Ne...
7:30 pm
- 9 pm
September
2022
13
Lectures
Swope Endowed Lecture: Weaving Love and Joy into Our Journeys of Truth and Reconciliation
In this inspiring session, author and artist Monique Gray Smith will share her perso...
7:30 pm
- Feb. 2020: Robin Meyers, pastor - “Saving God From Religion”
- Oct. 2019: Pamela Lightsey, author, theologian - “The Struggle for Rites: Invoking the Sacred Through LGBTQ Liberation”
- Feb. 2018: Charles Johnson, Johnson, professor of English at University of Washington - “Engaging Race, Religion, and Literature: An Evening With Charles Johnson”
- Feb. 2018: Charles Johnson - "The New Middle Passage: Mindfulness and Black America"
- Feb. 2017: Rev. Irene Monroe
- Feb. 2017: Robin Meyers, pastor - “Saving God From Religion”
- Oct. 2016: Sharon Patricia Holland - "Race, Sexuality, Humans, and Animals: Ethics and Our Affective Lives"
- Sept. 2016: Ruchama Marton - “Forced Existence”
- Feb. 2015: Sister Tahera Ahmad - "Postmodern Muslim Feminism"
- Sept. 2014: Winona LaDuke
- Feb. 2014: Douglas "Jake" Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen - "The Future of Religion in Higher Education"
- Dec. 2013: Martha Nussbaum - "The New Religious Intolerance"
- March 2013: Gabriella Lettini - "Moral Injury as a Wound of War and the Need for Soul Repair"
- Nov. 2012: Robert P. Jones - "Beyond Values Voters: The Shifting Role of Religion in American Politics"
- Feb. 2012: Rev. Dr. Brett Webb-Mitchell - "Beyond Accessibility: Moving Toward Full Inclusion in Our Faith Communities"
- Sept. 2011: Rabbi Steven Greenberg - "Wrestling With God and Men: Constructing a Queer Orthodox Faith"
- Feb. 2011: B. Alan Wallace - "Experience, Reason, and Faith in Science and Religion"
- Sept. 2010: Eboo Patel - "Acts of Faith: Interfaith Leadership at a Time of Global Religious Crisis"
- April 2010: Taylor Branch - "The Myth and the Miracle: Reflections From the King Years"
- Sept. 2009: David Sloan Wilson - "Religion as a Product of Evolution"
- March 2009: Sister Helen Prejean - "The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions"
- Sept. 2008: Tzvi Adelman and Muhammad Abu Samra - "Palestine/Israel: One Land, Many Narratives, and a Dialogue"
- Jan. 2008: Reza Aslan - "Winning a Cosmic War: Why We’re Losing the War on Terror"
- Oct. 2007: Jan Willis - "Who, Then, is my Neighbor? An Ethics of Interrelatedness"
- Sept. 2006: Edward O. Wilson - "The Future of Life/The Creation"
- March 2006: Bernice Johnson Reagon - "Civil Rights, Liberation, and Music"
- Oct. 2005: Christopher Hedges - "Why Does America Need War Now?"
- March 2005: Yvonne Ridley and Riffat Hassan - "Women and Islam"
- Sept. 2004: Peter J. Gomes - "What Makes a College Good: A Re-appraisal for the 21st Century"
- April 2004: Burchell K. Taylor - "Stepping Out From the Shadow of Empire"
- Feb. 2004: James Lawson - "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?"
- April 2003–Karen Armstrong - "The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam"
- Feb. 2003: Michael N. Barnett - "Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda"
- March 2002: Oscar Arias - "Moral Leadership in the Age of Globalization"
- April 2001: James Carroll - "Anti-Semitism, History, and Conscience: A Christian Reflects"
- April 2000: Rita Nakashima Brock - "The Cross, the Death of Jesus, and a Violent Culture"
- Feb. 2000: Morris S. Dees Jr. - "Voices of Hope and Tolerance in America"