Science and Hope: A Conversation with Quaker Cosmologist George Ellis

Join Krista Tippett, the host of public radio's award-winning new program on belief, meaning, ethics, and ideas - Speaking of Faith - for a live taping of a special program featuring the 2004 Templeton Prize winner George Ellis. Speaking of Faith airs on WHYY 91FM on Sunday mornings at 7 am.

Dr. Ellis is a Quaker and a leading theoretical cosmologist renowned for his bold and innovative contributions to the dialogue between science and religion. His writings were condemned by government ministers of the former apartheid regime of his native South Africa. Dr. Ellis has advocated balancing the rationality of evidence-based science with faith and hope, a view shaped in part by his first-hand experiences in South Africa as it peacefully transformed from apartheid to multi-racial democracy without succumbing to civil war. His titles include On the Moral Nature of the Universe. He is the editor of The Far-Future Universe.

The Templeton Prize For Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities, currently worth $1.4 million, is the world's best-known religion prize and is given each year to a living person to encourage and honor those who advance spiritual matters. The John Templeton Foundation is based in Radnor, PA. This event is co-sponsored by The John Templeton Foundation and WHYY.

Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2004
Location: WHYY Technology Center, 150 N. 6th Street
Time: 6:30 - 7:00 p.m. Registration and reception
7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Taping of the show (audience must be seated by 7:00 p.m.)

RSVP: Below or call 215-351-1690 to register by Monday, June 7th.

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This event is co-sponsored by The John Templeton Foundation and WHYY.

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