Karen Armstrong: Leading a Compassionate Life
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Karen Armstrong: Leading a Compassionate Life
April 11, 2018 @ 7:30 pm
The Ware Lecture on Peacemaking
Karen Armstrong, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, is a historian of world religions whose books have been translated into 45 languages.
A former Catholic nun who left the convent to study literature, Armstrong is an authority on world faiths, religious fundamentalism and monotheism. She was appointed to the High Level Group of the UN Alliance of Civilizations to diagnose the causes of religious extremism. Subsequently,she was awarded the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal.
When: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 7:30 pm
Where: Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, Elizabethtown College
This event is free but required tickets available at lecturetickets@etown.edu or calling 717-361-4757
Sponsored by Judy S. and Paul W. Ware and Elizabethtown College’s Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking
For further information contact wolfk@etown.edu
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