Ruth Ozeki, New York Times bestselling author, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest, whose books have garnered international acclaim for...

Emmanuel Katongole, Ph.D., Professor of Theology and of Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Extraordinary Professor of Theology and Ecclesiology, University of Stellenbosch,...

Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of the Loka Initiative at the...

Norman Wirzba, is the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology and Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute of Ethics at Duke University. His...

New York Times bestselling Author John Green will be the first speaker in the 2022-23 William Belden Noble Lectures. Green is author of "The Fault in Our Stars," "Turtles All the Way Down," and...

**We regret to announce that the William Belden Noble Lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 20th at 7 pm by the Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock has been canceled due to a scheduling conflict. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. More information will be forthcoming regarding the Spring Term lecture series.**

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Presented by the 2019-2020 William Belden Noble Lecturer in Residence, the Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock. Dr. Warnock is Senior Pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the spiritual home of the Rev....

The title of the first lecture on Oct. 16 is “Let My People Go: The Scandal of Mass Incarceration in the Land of the Free.”

Presented by the 2019-2020 William Belden Noble...

American novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson will deliver the 2016 Noble Lecture, with an introduction by Matthew Potts, Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies, Harvard Divinity School. The title of her talk will be "The Divine."

Speaker: Michelle C. Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Theology, Harvard Divinity School. Professor Sanchez will speak on the relationship of 2016 Noble Lecturer Marilynne Robinson’s writing and John Calvin.

President Drew Faust will interview documentary Filmmaker Stanley Nelson, Jr.; selected clips of his work will be shown and discussed. 

In the weeks leading up the lecture, please join Professor Jonathan L. Walton for the Noble Lecture Film Series with films by Stanley Nelson, Jr.

Sunday, February 22 at 7:00 p.m. — Wounded Knee: We Shall Remain
Sunday, March 29 at 7:00 p.m. — Freedom Riders...

Please join Professor Jonathan L. Walton for the Noble Lecture Film Series with documentary films by this year's Noble Lecturer, Stanley Nelson Jr.

Sunday, February 22nd at 7:00 p.m. — Wounded Knee: We Shall Remain
Sunday, March 29 at 7:00 p.m. — Freedom Riders
Sunday, April 12 at 7:00 p.m. — Freedom Summer (Our Sunday morning...

Please join Professor Jonathan L. Walton for the Noble Lecture Film Series with documentary films by this year's Noble Lecturer, Stanley Nelson Jr.

Sunday, February 22nd at 7:00 p.m. — Wounded Knee: We Shall Remain
Sunday, March 29 at 7:00 p.m. — Freedom Riders
Sunday, April 12 at 7:00 p.m. — Freedom Summer (Our...

Please join Professor Jonathan L. Walton for the Noble Lecture Film Series with documentary films by this year's Noble Lecturer, Stanley Nelson Jr.

Sunday, February 22nd at 7:00 p.m. — Wounded Knee: We Shall Remain
Sunday, March 29 at 7:00 p.m. — Freedom Riders
Sunday, April 12 at 7:00 p.m. — ...

"Approaching the Ledge: Why America needs a crisis of faith — and why, in order to save religion, we must be willing to let it die."

Listen to the Lecture (stream)

Joshua DuBois will explore the idea that we live in a time where faith exists without crisis, a coddled religious environment where God is not trusted to do God-sized things. As a result, some of the most significant social, political, and moral challenges we confront as a nation remain unsolved. Profiling leaders who have embraced deep crises of faith in the past — from the Civil Rights Movement to the present day — Mr. DuBois will plot a crisis-driven way forward that might finally address some of the most intractable problems we face.

Joshua DuBois,  former Special Assistant to President Obama and Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and author of The President's Devotional, will present  the 2014 William Belden Noble Lecture. Free admission.

The President’s Devotional: The Daily Readings that Inspired President Obama
Joshua DuBois, Former Executive Director of the Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships

*Faith and Life Forum will take place this morning in the main sanctuary. Professor David Gergen, Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School, will interview Mr. DuBois. Joshua Dubois is the 2014 William Belden Noble Lecturer.