The Moral Morass of Contemporary Life FREE March 7, 2007

Free and Open to All
Intellectual Commons, Room 233



The Dialogues series continues with a panel discussion on the moral morass of contemporary life. Pulitzer Prize-winner Jack Miles will facilitate an inspiring conversation with George Regas, former rector of All Saints Church, Pasadena and Leonard Beerman, the founding rabbi of Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles.

George Regas served as rector of All Saints Church, Pasadena, for 28 years and retired in 1995. Two years later, he founded the Regas Institute, which focuses on the study and advocacy of progressive religion and the promotion of interfaith dialogue on peacemaking. His education includes a Master of Divinity from the Episcopal Divinity School, postgraduate work at Cambridge University (Clare College) and a doctorate from Claremont School of Theology.

Leonard Beerman is the founding rabbi of Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles, where he served for 37 years until his retirement. He has taught at Claremont Men's College and lectured widely in universities, churches, synagogues and mosques. Throughout his career, Beerman has been concerned primarily with issues of justice and peace, and he has worked to bring conscience and faith to the forefront of many difficult and controversial social questions.

Jack Miles, senior fellow with the Pacific Council on International Policy, has written for the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, the Boston Globe and other publications. His book, God: A Biography, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 and has been translated into sixteen languages. A sequel, Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God, came out in 2001 in the United States, Britain, Germany and France. From 1975 to 1995, Miles was successively an editor at Doubleday, executive editor at the University of California Press, literary editor at the Los Angeles Times and a member of the Times Editorial Board writing on politics and culture. He serves on the final fellowship selection committee of the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2003 he was named a MacArthur Fellow.

Organized by Steve Ross (history), Barbara Isenberg (Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities), Lindsay Clark (Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities) and Tyson Gaskill (University Libraries). Co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities and the USC Libraries.

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