Teachout has written for The New York Times and Washington Post and serves as a commentator for National Public Radio. He is the author of The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken and City Limits: Memories of a Small-Town Boy, among other books.
The event is sponsored by Religion and the Arts, a quarterly journal published by Boston College which promotes the development of discourses for exploring the religious dimensions of the verbal, visual and performing arts.