A Feast for Winter-Weary Souls
Programs for Contemplation and Inspiration
March 2007 Schedule

Wednesday, March 7, 6:00 p.m.
2006–2007 K. Brooke Anderson Memorial Lecture
“What Christian Nation? A Reality-based American Religious History”
Robert Orsi, Harvard Divinity School
Salomon Hall, Room 001, The College Green
Sponsored by the Religious Studies Department

Thursday, March 8, 4:00 p.m.
The First St. Gregory of Nyssa Orthodox Christian Lecture Series
“The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth”
David Bentley Hart, Eastern Orthodox theologian
Petteruti Lounge, Faunce House, 75 Waterman Street
Sponsored by the Orthodox Christian Fellowship of Brown University

Friday, March 16, 5:00 p.m.
The 2007 Becket Lecture
“Who Is My Neighbor?”
M. Shawn Copeland, Boston College
Petteruti Lounge, Faunce House, 75 Waterman Street
Sponsored by the Brown-RISD Roman Catholic Community and the Thomas Becket Association

Sunday, March 18, 12:00–6:00 p.m.
The 2007 Mary Interlandi '05 Retreat
Retreat on ”Lovingkindness”
Sharon Salzberg, Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachusetts
Brown Hillel, 80 Brown Street
Sponsored by the Contemplative Studies Program with the Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life
Funded by the Mary Interlandi ’05 Lecture Fund
Note: Registration is required; $15 fee. Visit: www.contemplativestudies.org

Monday, March 19, 8:00 p.m.
Third Annual Mary Interlandi ’05 Memorial Lecture on Contemplative Studies
“The Importance of Lovingkindness in a Stressful World”
Sharon Salzberg, Insight Meditation Society
120 List Art Building, 64 College Street
Sponsored by the Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life
with the Contemplative Studies Program
Funded by the Mary Interlandi ’05 Lecture Fund

Islamic Awareness Month, “The Many Faces of Islam”
Six programs during March on women in Islam, censorship in Islam, Muslim rule, and the problem of Guantanamo.

Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life, Brown University
All events, except the Interlandi retreat, are free and all events are open to the public.
For more information, see links above or call 401.863.2344