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April 23, 2012 (Monday), 7 pm, "Many Faiths, One Community: Compassion and Religion," part of a series on "Building Common Ground: Race, Religion and Politics in Columbus,"
April 11, 2012 (Wednesday), 7 pm, "God Is Not One," Mary Ellen Borges Memorial Lecture, Dickinson College, Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA.
November 18, 2010, 10 am, The Distinguished Lecture Series (2010-2011), St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, Dallas, Texas.
May 27, 2010 (Thursday), 2pm, BEA, Jacob Javits Center, Room 1E17, 655 West 34th Street, New York, NY. Panel on "The Future of Fundamentalism in an Obama Era" with Jeff Sharlet, Frank Schaeffer, and Lynn Garrett, moderated by Becky Garrison.
May 13, 2010 (Thursday), 7 pm, "God is Not One" reading, signing, conversation, Quail Ridge Books & Music, 3522 Wade Avenue, Raleigh, NC.
May 12, 2010 (Wednesday), 6 pm, "God is Not One" reading, signing, conversation sponsored by Eagle Eye Bookshop of Decatur, GA, but held at St. John's Lutheran Church, 1410 Ponce de Leon Ave, Atlanta GA, just down the road from my old home in Little Five Points.
May 11, 2010 (Tuesday), 7 pm, "God Is Not One" reading, signing, and conversation near my old Georgia State University haunts at Buckhead Barnes & Noble, 2900 Peachtree Road NE Suite 310, Atlanta, GA.
May 7, 2010 (Friday), "God is Not One" book reading, signing, conversation, Northshire Bookstore, 4869 Main Street, Manchester Center, VT.
May 6, 2010 (Thursday), 7 pm, "God is Not One" reading, signing, conversation, Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
April 27, 2010 (Tuesday), 7 pm, "God is Not One" reading, signing, conversation, BU Barnes & Noble (Level 5 Reading Room), Boston, MA.
April 17, 2010, 930 am, "Religious Illiteracy: Is it Really a Problem?" Reformed Institute of Metropolitan Washington annual convocation, Washington, DC.
March 10, 2010, 11 am, "Religious Literacy," Union Forum, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee.
February 15, 2010, 7:30 pm: "Religious Literacy in a Furiously Religious World," Swope Lecture, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington.
April 21, 2009: "Religious Literacy," College Lecture Series, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL.
March 2, 2009, 7:30 pm, "Landiss Lecture: Religious Literacy," Georgia Tech, Georgia Tech Student Center Theare, Atlanta, Georgia.
November 18-20, 2008: "The Work of Doing Nothing: Wandering as Practice and Play," Noble Lectures, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. The three lectures themselves are called: "Wandering Out: Leaving and Letting Go"; "Wandering Around: Out of Doors and Out of Mind"; "Wandering Home: Reckoning and Return."
November 14, 2008: "Religious Literacy," Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN.
November 11, 2008: "Religious Literacy," Festival of Faiths, Kentucky International Convention Center, 221 South 4th Street, Louisville, KY, 7:30 pm.
October 26, 2008: "Exodus: Story of a Nation," Student Village F, Northeastern University, 1:15 pm. Conversation with Adam Kirsch and Eliza New on the ways in which the Exodus story has functioned throughout U.S. history as a core narrative for imagining the nation. [PDF]
October 22, 2008: "Religious Literacy," Peace Symposium, Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio.
May 9, 2008 (6:30 pm): "Biblical Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know and Doesn't," Museum of Biblical Art, New York City.
April 7, 2008: "Religious Literacy," Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
February 13, 2008 (7 pm): "Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't," University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Irvin L. Young Auditorium.
February 12, 2008 (3 pm): "Religious Literacy," Presidents Distinguished Lecture Series, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA.
February 11, 2008 (7 pm): "Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know-And Doesn't," February 11, 2008, Tarbutton Theater, Oxford College at Emory University, Oxford, Georgia.
February 1, 2008 (3:30 pm): "Religious Literacy," Old Main Room 225, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
January 17, 2008 (7:30 pm): "The Role of Schools in Teaching Religious Literacy," Falmouth Academy, Falmouth, Massachusets.
December 11, 2007: radio conversation about the controversy swirling around "The Golden Compass" on the NPR radio show "On Point." Other guests include Hanna Rosin of "Atlantic Monthly" and James Martin of "America: The National Catholic Weekly."
November 8, 2007: "Religious Literacy in the United States," 7 pm, Schrader Science Lecture Hall, Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, Massachusetts. Sponsored by the ENC History Department, the Historical Society, and the DeFreitas Foundation.
October 29, 2007: "Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know," sponsored by the Institute for Religion in Community Life. Lecture at 12:40 pm, free. Lecture/reception/book signing at 7:30 pm, $15 advance, $20 at door. Both events at D'Ecclesiis Auditorium, St. Joseph's College, Long Island Campus, Patchogue, NY.
October 17, 2007 (6:30) at the Harvard Faculty Club: "Religious Literacy," sponsored jointly by the Cambridge Roundtable on Science, Art & Religion and the Harvard University Committee on the Study of Religion. By invitation only.
October 16, 2007 (7:30 pm): "Jewish Literacy Kickoff: A Conversation with Stephen Prothero and Rabbi Avi Weiss." [PDF]
October 10, 2007: Gerrish Fund Lecture on "Religious Literacy," 7 pm, Lorimer Chapel, Colby College, Waterville, Maine.
October 6, 2007: Two events at Central Valley High School, Ceres, CA: "Religion and Politics" (American Heritage Scholarship lecture), 11 am; and book discussion of "Religious Literacy," Modesto Bee Book Club, 2 pm.
October 4, 2007: Two lectures. Noon on "Religious Literacy and the Public Intellectual" (part of a series on "Politics and the Public Intellectual") at Tivoli Turnhalle, University of Denver; and 6:30 pm on "Religious Literacy and the American Scholar" (part of a series on "New Visions of the American Scholar") at the Laboratory of Arts and Ideas at Belmar, Denver, CO.
September 24, 2007 (7 pm): Schaff Lecture on "Religious Literacy" at Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, PA.
September 14, 2007: "Religious Literacy" public lecture at Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA.
This is a great NPR program out of Wisconsin, and I'm on this June 25, 2007 program alongside Elaine Pagels of Princeton and one of my all-time favorite writers, Anne Lamott.
May 18, 2007: Coverage of "Religious Literacy" on the PBS show "Religion and Ethics Newsweekly."
May 12, 2007: Conversation with Alan Jones of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco on "Religious Literacy," aired Saturday, May 12, at 8:00 pm and Sunday, May 13, at 9:00 am.
For my appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and the Tavis Smiley Show, see my news page!
April 29, 2007: Conversation with Paula Fredriksen and moderated by Alan Segal on the afterlives of Jesus in America, academia, and Israel. The Center for Jewish History, New York City. 5:45 pm.
April 24, 2007: "Religious Literacy" book signing at one of the Bay Area's great independent bookstores, Cody's Books of Berkeley.
Conversation on religion and society in America with Rabbi Michael Lerner of "Tikkun" magazine and Michael Maudlin of HarperSanFrancisco.
April 22, 2007: "Religious Literacy" conversation for "The Forum" at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco with the Reverend Alan Jones, Dean of Grace Cathedral. Why religion needs to become the “Fourth R” of American education and what's wrong with the "new atheism." Click through for the webcast.
April 10, 2007: Return trip to this wide-ranging talk show on Southern California Public Radio (89.3 FM).
March 27, 2007 (7 pm): "Religious Literacy" book signing at Barnes & Noble @ Boston University. Click through for the webcast.
March 23, 2007: WGN Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg on "The Talk of Chicago"
March 15, 2007: Live, in-studio conversation about "Religious Literacy" in Manhattan with Leonard Lopate.
March 13, 2007: "On Point" is one of my favorite NPR shows and it features one of the sharpest hosts in the business, Tom Ashbrook. Here he asks whether we should be teaching about religion in the public schools. Barry Lynn says no. I say yes.
November 11, 2006: "Writing the Story of America's Religious Origins," conversation at the Library of Congress with Mark Noll, Susan Jacoby, Jonathan Sarna, Catherine Albanese, and myself. Click on the link above for the full webcast.
Airdate August 8, 2006: NBC Nightly News story on "faith nights" at baseball games with a sound bite of mine (or is it a sound morsel?) on the pitfalls of mixing praying and playing. Click on the link and then on "launch."
