Surjit Singh Lecture

An Evening with Eboo Patel

The annual Surjit Singh Lecture in Comparative Religious Thought and Culture fosters interreligious and cross-cultural communication and understanding. This year's speaker will be Eboo Patel, founder and president of the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), which is a national nonprofit that partners with institutions of higher education to make interfaith cooperation a priority.

2017 Surjit Singh Lecture "A Jain-Inspired Approach to the Diversity of Worldviews”

As human beings committed to diverse worldviews, how do we learn to navigate the fact that our neighbors have beliefs and values that differ from ours? Is agreement necessary in order for there to be peace? Or is there a way for us to value difference without compromising on our own most deeply held beliefs? Are there certain beliefs that are incompatible with peaceful co-existence? In this lecture, Jeffery Long will explore a way to approach these difficult questions. Taking his inspiration from both Jain and Hindu traditions, Long will explore the limit

2016 Surjit Singh Lecture, Toward a More Perfect Union: The Contribution of Judith Berling to Religious Pluralism in Theological Education

This year's Surjit Singh Lecture by Philip Wickeri will be a part of a two-day GTU symposium, Learning as Collaborative Conversation: Celebrating the Scholarship and Teaching of Judith Berling. The Singh Lecture will be part of the afternoon session on the first day of the event, at 4:00 pm on Wednesday, May 25.

Learning as Collaborative Conversation: Celebrating the Scholarship and Teaching of Judith Berling

On May 25-26, 2016, the GTU will be holding a two-day symposium celebrating the scholarship of Dr. Judith Berling and her 29 years of service as a faculty member and administrator with the GTU. You can watch a live video stream of conference sessions using these links:

Video: Interreligious Relations as Friendship--Surjit Singh Lecture 2015

June 17, 2015

Singh Lecture 2015 from Graduate Theological Union on Vimeo.

2015 Surjit Singh Lecture

The 2015 Surjit Singh Lecture on Comparative Religious Thought and Culture is entitled "Interreligious Relations as Friendship: M.K. Gandhi and Charles Freer Andrews." Our featured speaker is Dr. Anantanand Rambachan, professor of religion at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota.

2:00 Reception

2:30 Indian Classical Dance Performance by Rina Mehta

3:00 lecture followed by Q & A

Jennifer Howe Peace will deliver 2013 Surjit Singh Lecture

December 5, 2012

Jennifer Howe Peace, (Ph.D.

Spiritual Other/Spiritual Self: Models of Transformative Interfaith Work - Surjit Singh Lecture 2013

People of diverse religious backgrounds encounter each other daily in coffee shops, hospitals, classrooms, and around the dinner table. What might these encounters teach us about ourselves, our neighbors, or about God? Drawing on stories from My Neighbor’s Faith (Orbis, 2012), this year's Singh Lecture will explore what these encounters tell us about the nature of transformative interfaith work today.

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