The novel is one of the great resistors of secularism, precisely because it is a secular art, author Christopher Beha said in a lecture hosted by the English department’s Visiting Writers Program. In his lecture on Oct. 17, “The Statues in the Temple: Notes on the Novel as a Secular Art,” the former editor-in-chief of...
Why did you want to visit Hillsdale? In my professional life, I often find myself in a position where I am a representative of religious belief within secular audiences and, at other times, I find myself as a representative of secular culture speaking to religious audiences. I am politically fairly progressive, and I feel very...
The former editor-in-chief of Harper’s Magazine will visit campus next week as part of the English department’s Visiting Writers Program. Christopher Beha will read from his forthcoming book, “Why I Am Not an Atheist,” at 8 p.m. on Oct. 16 and lecture on “The Statues in the Temple: Notes on the Novel as a Secular...