Rev. Kaia Stern, Ph.D. on “The Bible and Liberty and Justice for All.” Dr. Stern’s background is in the field of transformative justice. She is an interfaith minister and directs the Prison Studies Project at Harvard University.
Rev. Anne Robertson, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bible Society, addresses the issue of “Taking the Bible Seriously, but Not Literally.” She drew the title of her talk from Marcus Borg’s book “Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally.”
Poetry was crucial in 19th-century American education and culture for developing learning skills, moral insight, and emotional understanding.
Social entrepreneurs and an expert on social entrepreneurship discuss the strategy and soul of combining idealism, ingenuity, and pragmatism to improve lives and conditions locally, nationally, and globally.
Two enterprising women describe the public service ventures they founded and how the media has helped advance their respective missions. The Christian Science Monitor’s international editor, David Scott, addresses his paper’s role in effecting positive social change.
