#  Lectures 

 



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 ![Noble Lecture Ruth Ozeki 2024](/sites/g/files/omnuum7126/files/thememorialchurch/files/240412noblelecture6.jpg)

 

*Ruth Ozeki, New York Times bestselling author, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest shared her story and insights in conversation with the Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Ph.D ’13, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in the Faculty of Divinity, Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, and Professor Duncan Ryūken Williams Ph.D '00, scholar, writer and Zen Buddhist priest. The lecture took place at the Memorial Church of Harvard University, April 12, 2024. Photo by Jeffrey Blackwell/Memorial Church Communications*   
**William Belden Noble Lectures**

 **April 12, 2024**  
**Lecture Title:** A concersation with Ruth Ozeki  
**Lecturer:** Ruth Ozeki, New York Times bestselling author, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest, whose books have garnered international acclaim for their ability to integrate issues of science, technology, religion, environmental politics, and global pop culture. [Watch the lecture](https://youtu.be/qld9KYOS9bM?si=BZ55qj-Doi7sK5en) (Memorial Church YouTube Channel).

 **March 22, 2023**  
**Lecture Title:** Build Me a Sanctuary: The Role of Religion in the Anthropocene  
**Lecturer:** Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of the Loka Initiative at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She is a religion and ecology expert, having worked with faith and Indigenous leaders around the world on developing faith-led environmental and climate projects for more than 15 years.  
**[Watch the lecture](https://youtu.be/6_fvIAUFI4I)** (Havard Divinity School YouTube Channel)

 **November 10, 2022**  
**Lecture Title:** Considering Hope in a Climate Crisis World.  
**Lecturer:** Norman Wirzba, the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology and Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute of Ethics at Duke University.  
**[Watch the lecture](https://youtu.be/K88Albmd8xg)** (Memorial Church YouTube Channel)

 **October 14, 2022**  
**Lecture Title:** How the World Ends.  
**Lecturer:** New York Times bestselling Author John Green, author of "The Fault in Our Stars," "Turtles All the Way Down," and "The Anthropocene Reviewed," among others. He is also widely-known video blogger, podcaster, and philanthropist. The title of his lecture is "How the World Ends."  
**[Watch the lecture](https://youtu.be/EQ3DakqVrvo)** (Memorial Church YouTube Channel)

 **October 16, 2019**  
**Lecture Title:** Let My People Go: The Scandal of Mass Incarceration in the Land of the Free.  
**Lecturer:**  The Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock, Senior Pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the spiritual home of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  
**[Watch the lecture](https://youtu.be/ND-x8-uaQLM)** (Memorial Church YouTube Channel)

 **April 4, 2016**  
**Lecture Title:** The Divine  
**Lecturer:** Award-winning American author Marilynne Robinson  
**Watch the lecture:** **[Part 1](http://harvardmemorialchurch.org/media/noble_lecture/04.04.16_noble_lecture_marilynne_robinson_part1.mp4)** | **[Part 2](http://harvardmemorialchurch.org/media/noble_lecture/04.04.16_noble_lecture_marilynne_robinson_part2.mp4)** | **[Part 3](http://harvardmemorialchurch.org/media/noble_lecture/04.04.16_noble_lecture_marilynne_robinson_part3.mp4)** (stream)  
**[Listen to the lecture](http://harvardmemorialchurch.org/media/noble_lecture/04.04.16_noble_lecture_marilynne_robinson_audio.mp3)** (stream)

 **April 13, 2015**  
**Lecture Title:** Drew Faust Interviews Stanley Nelson  
**Description:** Documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson is interviewed at the 2015 Noble Lecture by Harvard President Drew Faust in the Memorial Church.  
**[Watch the interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB9_IsPR6z0)** (Harvard's YouTube Channel)

 **April 7, 2014**  
**Lecture Title:** "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."  
**Lecturer:** 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](http://www.amazon.com/The-Presidents-Devotional-Readings-President/dp/0062265288)*  
**[Watch Joshua DuBois' lecture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV4cWol9ZCA)** (Harvard's YouTube Channel)

 **April 29, 2013**  
**Lecturer:** Janet McKenzie, *Artist ([www.janetmckenzie.com](http://www.janetmckenzie.com))*  
**[Listen to Janet McKenzie's lecture](http://harvardmemorialchurch.org/media/noble_lecture/04.29.13_noble-lecture_mckenzie.mp3)** (stream)

 **Paul Tillich Lectures**

 **April 30, 2014**  
**Lecture Title:** "Tillich, Bonhoeffer, and the Future of Jesus Christ"  
**Lecturer:** James Carroll, *Award Winning Author and Columnist for The Boston Globe*  
**[Listen to James Carroll's Lecture](http://harvardmemorialchurch.org/media/tillich_lecture/04.30.14_tillich-lecture_carroll.mp3)** (stream)