Theodore Hesburgh
President, University of Notre Dame
"The Nuclear Threat to Humanity"

J. Robert Nelson
Director, Institute of Religion Texas Medical Center
"Human Life as a Criterion of Science"

Robert McAfee Brown
Professor Emeritus, Pacific School of Religion
"Religion and the Role of Dissent"

Joseph Cardinal Bernardin
Archbishop, Diocese of Chicago
"The Church in the Third Millennium: Age Old Values and New Challenges"

Abigail McCarthy
Author, Journalist
"From the 30s to the 80s: The Education of a Twentieth Century Woman"

Raymond E. Brown
Auburn Distinguished Professor of Biblical Studies, Union Theological Seminary, New York
"The Star, the Magi and the Wicked Herod: Matthew's Gospel Story of Jesus' Birth"

Karen Lebacqz
Professor of Christian Ethics, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley
"Jubilee Justice"

Daniel Berrigan, SJ
Poet, Peace and Justice Advocate
"Disarming the Heart, Disarming the World"

Charles Curran
Visiting Brooks Professor of Theology
University of Southern California
"Economic Justice for All"

Elie Weisel
Mellon Professor of Humanities, Boston University
1986 Nobel Peace Laureate
"A World at Peace" (cosponsored)

James Cone
Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology Union Theological Seminary
"Martin and Malcolm: A Dream or a Nightmare"

Ted Peters
Professor of Systematic Theology, Union Theological Seminary, Berkeley
"Discerning the Spirit of the New Age"

Elizabeth A. Johnson
Professor of Theology, Catholic University of America
"Women in the Image of God, God in the Image of Women"

Martin E. Marty
Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor University of Chicago
"The Fundamentalist Across the Globe, Down the Block or In the Heart"

Hans Küng
Director, Tubingen, Institute of Ecumenical Research Tubingen, Germany
"No Peace Among Nations Without Peace Among the Religions"

Dan Sullivan
Journalist and Theater Critic
"Putting God on Stage: From Aeschylus to Woody Allen"

Gertrud Mueller-Nelson
Author, Lecturer
"The Healing Journey of the Feminine"

Richard A. McCormick, SJ
Professor of Christian Ethics, University of Notre Dame
"Bioethics: What to Look For in the 90s"

Ines M. Talamantez
Associate Professor of Theology, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Isanaklesh Gotal: Apache Female Initiation"

Richard Louv
Journalist
"Children at Risk: Voices of Hope" (Symposium Keynote Speaker)

Michael Himes
Professor of Theology, Boston College
"A Theological Foundation for an Environmental Ethic"

Thomas Stransky, CSP
Director, Tantur Institute for Ecumenical Research Jerusalem
"The Crisis of Religion in the Holy Land"

Seyyed Hossein Nasr
University Professor of Islamic Studies George Washington University
"Islam and the Dialogue Between the Abrahamic Faiths"

Elliot N. Dorf
Rector, University of Judaism Los Angeles
"Balancing Self Defense with the Need for Peace"

Alice B. Hayes
President, University of San Diego
"The Growth of a Leaf and a Life" (Fall 1996)

Tu Wei-ming
Confucian Humanist and Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy at Harvard University
"Confucian Spirituality: The Idea of Immanent Transcendence" (Spring 1997)

Robert Bellah
University of California, Berkeley
"Max Weber and World-denying Love: A Look at the Sociology of Religion" (Fall 1997)

Joan Chittister, OSB
Benedictine author and lecturer
"Ecology, Theology and Feminism: In Conjunction or in Conflict" (Spring 1998)

James Carroll
Writer, winner of the National Book Award for An American Requiem
"The Cross at Auschwitz" (Winter 1999)

Avery Cardinal Dulles
McGinley Professor of Religion and Society, Fordham University
"Christ, The Church and Social Order" (Fall 1999)

Thomas J. Reese, SJ
Editor in chief of AMERICA, a Jesuit weekly magazine
"The Politics of Papal Elections: How Will The Next Pope Be Selected?" (Spring 2000)

John T. Noonan
Author and Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
"The Dog and The Fish: Lord John Acton and John Cardinal Newman" (November 2000)

Amy-Jill Levine
Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, Vanderbilt University Divinity School
"Reassessing Jewish-Christian Relations: Scripture, Polemic, and Salvation" (April 2001)

John P. Meier
Author of A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Professor, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame
"Jesus the Jew: But What Sort of Jew?" (October 2001)

David Noel Freedman
Professor of History and Endowed Chairin Hebrew Biblical Studies, UCSD
"The Two Destructions of Jerusalem and Biblical Prophecy" (October 2001)

Marcus Borg
Hundere Professor of Religion and Culture, Oregon State University
"Religious Pluralism: Seeing Religion Again" (January 2002)

Abdul Raheem Yaseer
Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska
"Afghanistan, Islam, and Recent Events: An Afghan Muslim Educator's Perspective" (January 2002)

Margaret Miles
Dillenberger Professor of Historical Theology, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
"Short Beds and Narrow Sheets: Religion and the Common Good" (April 2002)

Samuel Ruiz Garcia
Retired Bishop of San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
"The Pursuit of Justice from the Perspective of the Poor" (October 2002)

Ronald Cole-Turner
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
"The Genetic Revolution and Designer Babies: Moral and Religious Implications" (November 2002)

Sohail Humayun Hashmi
Alumnae Foundation Associate Professor and Chair of the International Relations Program at Mount Holyoke College
"September 11 and the Tradition of Jihad" (January 2003)

Athol Fugard
South African Playwright, Actor and Director
"A Catholic Antigone: Hildegard of Bingen" (February 2003)

Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
Claremont School of Theology, Director of the Whitehead International Film Festival
"Looking Beyond the Mirror: The Intracultural Dialogue between Religion and Film" (November 2003)

Stanley Martin Hauerwas
Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, Divinity School of Duke University
"Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Truth and Politics" (February 2004)

John Shelby Spong
Bishop Emeritus of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark
"The Terrible Texts of the Bible" (November 2004)

Wendy Doniger
Mircea Eliade Professor of Religion at the University of Chicago
"You Can't Get Here from There: The Logical Paradox of Creation Myths"
(February 2005)

Diana Eck
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Director of Pluralism Project, Harvard University
"Pluralism and the Ethics of Dialogue" (October 2005)

John Haught
Distinguished Research Professor of Theology at Georgetown University
"Evolution and Divine Providence: Are they Really Compatible" (February 2006)

Rabbi Michael Lerner
Editor, Tikkun Magazine, and Author
"Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right: The Politics and Theology of Spiritual Progressives"(November 2006)

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity, Harvard University
"The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire
(February 2007)

Rosemary Radford Ruether
Carpenter Emerita Professor of Feminist Theology
Pacific School of Religion and the GTU
"American Empire and the War Against Evil" (February 2008)

Lewis R. Lancaster
Professor Emeritus, East Asian Languages and Cultures
UC Berkeley
"Buddhism in a Global Age of Technology" (April 2008)

Khaled Abou El Fad
Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of Law at UCLA Law School
UCLA
"Islamic Law and the Challenge of Islamophobia" (May 2008)