Tuesday, February 10, 2015

LENTEN SERIES -- "SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND EXTRATERRESTRIALS," PART ONE

JOHN HART, "HYNEK, HAWKING, AND HART: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE COSMIC KIND"

SUNDAY 22 FEBRUARY AT 6 P.M.

John Hart is Professor of Christian Ethics at Boston University School of Theology. He is the author of six books, including Sacramental Commons: Christian Ecological Ethics (2006), Cosmic Commons: Spirit, Science, & Space (2013), and Encountering ETI: Aliens in Avatar and the Americas (2014); he is also a member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute’s Astrobiology and Society Focus Group.

Join us for a light supper followed by Professor Hart's presentation and conversation, in the Great Hall at S. Stephen's Church, 114 George Street, Providence, RI, 02906. Copies of John's books Cosmic Commons and Encountering ETI will be available for purchase.

Subsequent speakers in the four-part series "Science, Religion, and Extraterrestrials" are Bishop Nicholas Knisely of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island (March 1), Professor Kenneth Miller of Brown University (March 8), and Phoebe Pettingell of St. Stephen's Church (March 15).