Second Annual Dean’s Colloquium on Religion and Public Culture
Income Inequality and Our Responsibility to the Poor
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
7:00 p.m.
Gasson Hall 100, Chestnut Hill Campus
Boston College
The widening income gap between America’s rich and poor raises profound moral and ethical questions. Respected thinkers from four religious traditions reflect on how our collective theologies consider and confront income inequality.
FEATURING
Rev. J. Bryan Hehir
Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Harvard University, and secretary for health and social services, Archdiocese of Boston
Susannah Heschel
Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College
Mohamed Lazzouni
Chairman of the advisory board, Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College
Rev. John K. Stendahl
Pastor, Lutheran Church of the Newtons, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
MODERATED BY
Alan Wolfe
Boston College professor of political science, and founding director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College
Free and open to the public
Reception to follow
Sponsored by the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry
RSVP by April 9
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