Why is Saint Jude the Most Popular Catholic Saint in Mexico?

Date: Tuesday, Apr 8, 2025

Professor Andrew Chesnut explains how the Patron of Lost Causes, Saint Jude, went from obscurity on the Mexican religious landscape to become the rock star of Catholic saints in the country.

The Lyons Lecture in Judaic Studies presents "The God of Judaism is a God of Love"

Date: Thursday, Feb 19, 2026

Join us on Thursday, Feb 19 for the Lyons Lecture in Judaic Studies. We'll hear from Rabbi Shai Held, president and dean at the Hadar Institute. Held has been named multiple times by Newsweek as one of the fifty most influential rabbis in America.

The Kabbalistic Tree: Visual Interface of Jewish Mysticism

Date: Monday, Feb 16, 2026

J. H. Chajes, Ph.D. will be speaking on kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, framed around his magisterial book "The Kabbalistic Tree." 

Lunch and Learn: Enigmas of The Great Parchment and the Origins of the Ilanot Genre

Date: Monday, Feb 16, 2026

Join us for lunch to learn about the enigmatic texts known as Iggeret sippurim (Epistle of Stories) that appeared on a long-lost medieval kabbalistic iconotext called "The Great Parchment" featuring J.H. (Yossi) Chajes.

Powell-Edwards Lecture Series for Religion and the Arts presents "Art, Research, and Afro-diasporic Spirituality"

Date: Monday, Mar 2, 2026

Join us March 2 for the annual Powell-Edwards Lecture Series for Religion and the Arts featuring a conversation between Marina Magloire, Ph.D., of Emory University and E. Gaynell Sherrod, Ph.D., of VCUarts. The conversation will address how artistic, spiritual and scholarly practices influence one another in the work of the scholar-artists they have studied, and in their own work.

History's Double-Edge: Lunch and Learn

Date: Friday, Feb 20, 2026

Join us for a lunch and learn with Rabbi Shai Held. We'll explore the double-edge of memory: we'll see how it can sustain worshippers in hope and how, sometimes, it can deepen their despair. Rabbi Held is president and dean at the Hadar Institute.