KAREN ARMSTRONG TALK SEPT. 27 TO OPEN BRYAN SERIES
Best-selling author Karen Armstrong will speak Sept. 27 at 8 p.m. in War Memorial Auditorium as the opening event in the 2005-06 Bryan Series. Her visit is part of the college's Year of Spirit and Spirituality.
Armstrong is a writer, lecturer, broadcaster and author of 12 books. Her best-known book is A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, which was on the New York Times best-seller list for many months. She teaches at the Leo Baeck College for the Study of Judaism and the Training of Rabbis and Teachers in London, England.
A limited number of tickets ($10) are on sale at the Greensboro Coliseum box office, online (www.Tickets.com), by phone (1-888-397-3100) or at selected Lowes Food Stores in the Greensboro area. There is a service charge for all tickets purchased online or by phone. Subject to availabilty, Guilford students and employees may receive one free ticket at the door with valid ID the night of the event.
Educated at Oxford University, Armstrong taught modern literature at the University of London. She was a Catholic nun from 1962-69, and in 1982, she became a freelance writer and broadcaster.
Armstrong's books include Through the Narrow Gate, a best-seller in Britain, The Gospel According to Women, Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World, Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths, and The Battle for God. Her latest book, published in 2004, is a memoir, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb out of Darkness.
A provocative, original and inclusive thinker on the role of religion in the modern world, she has been a frequent contributor to conferences, panels and throughout the media on both sides of the Atlantic since Sept. 11, 2001, on the subject of Islam. She lives in London.
Other Bryan Series speakers this year include Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Nov. 3) and Bill Moyers (Mar. 13). Both events are in War Memorial Auditorium.
For more information about the Bryan Series, visit www.guilford.edu/bryanseries. For more on the Year of Spirit and Spirituality, visit www.guilford.edu/yearspirit.
Sept. 27, 2005