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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