18th Annual Thomas H. Lake Lecture with Mona Siddiqui speaking on
Art, Philanthropy, and Belonging: The Disruptive Nature of Giving.
We are excited to share that the 18th Annual Thomas H. Lake Lecture is scheduled for March 2, 2023 with Mona Siddiqui, OBE. The event will be held at St. Luke’s UMC in Indianapolis and via livestream. A reception will follow the lecture.
Mona Siddiqui, OBE is an internationally renowned academic, cultural commentator and broadcaster on BBC Radio, based at the University of Edinburgh. She is a scholar of Islamic law and ethics and Christian Muslim relations and currently the Jane and Aatos Erkko Professor at the Helsinki Collegium.
Siddiqui will explore how art and human imagination compel us to seek different worlds and justice and how religious faith makes demands of us to give in multiple ways – giving may have its limits just like hospitality but our moral life is relational and only by being generous with our idea of community, do we cultivate a sense of civic life for everyone.