Heinz Lecture Series Presents Faith Adiele

Faith Adiele, the first black Buddhist nun in Thailand, will speak Tuesday, April 24, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center as part of the Heinz Lecture Series.

Adiele will present "Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun," based on her award-winning memoir about her experience in Thailand, "Meeting Faith: An Inward Odyssey."

Critic Lan Samantha Chang has praised Adiele's book as "a humorous, enlightening, and ultimately enchanting chronicle of one American woman's unlikely journey," and critic Richard Rodriguez has described it as a "witty, painfully candid, and always sharp-eyed account of becoming a Buddhist nun that leads the reader to a most profound spiritual and human truth: There is no easy, static answer to the stranger's question, What are you?'"

"The Heinz Lecture Series of events focuses on the nature of study of religion in our world of plural religious traditions," said Dr. Bryan Rennie, Westminster associate professor of religion and organizer of the Heinz Lecture Series. "Our intention is to host both cultural representatives of the world's religious traditions and the academic and theological scholars who study them."

Contact Rennie at (724) 946-7151 or e-mail mailto:brennie@westminster.edu for more information.

Faith Adiele