James Carroll is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Suffolk University and a columnist for The Boston Globe. He is the author of ten novels and seven works of fiction. He lives in Boston.
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is associate professor of politics at Northwestern University. She is the author of Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion, published by Princeton in 2015…
The student of theology revels in the grandeur, emotion and beauty of a clear moment of human interconnectedness. It is the student of ethics, however, that lets her eyes wander further beyond the pitch. With that drift the existential beauty becomes more complicated; potentially tragic.
