The Agnostic Adventure: How Mystery and Doubt Keep Us Human

Psychologist and "accidental theologist" Lesley Hazleton will make a spirited argument for a stand-tall agnostic approach to the so-called "big questions." Going far beyond worn-out stereotypes to explore the vital role of both mystery and doubt in keeping us human, she will celebrate the agnostic stance as an invitation to an ongoing, open-ended adventure of the mind. Join us for this talk, which will serve as the East Coast book launch for Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto (released April 5)!

Lesley Hazleton is an award-winning writer whose work focuses on the intersection of religion, history, and politics. She reported on the Middle East from Jerusalem for more than a dozen years, and has written for Time, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, The Nation, and The New Republic, among others. Her book After the Prophet was a finalist for a PEN Center USA Literary Award, and she is the recipient of The Stranger’s Genius in Literature Award. Hazleton lives in Seattle.

7:30 PM
Mason Laboratory (ML), Room 211
Yale University
9 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT
Free and open to the public

This event is a part of Yale and New Haven Humanism Week. Learn more at yalehumanists.com

This event is organized with support from the Yale Undergraduate Humanist Society and the None/Others at Yale Divinity School.

Advance praise for Agnostic:

"Hazleton flies through the history of various thinkers in concise and fluid prose, treating the reader to a quick yet thorough journey through theology and philosophy… She wants readers to give agnosticism a fair shake, and many will be convinced by her appealing voice and accessible prose." –Starred Publishers Weekly review "Informed by science, philosophy, literature, history, travel, hiking, and more, Hazleton's manifesto makes the suspension of conviction as attractive as any theist or atheist testament." —Booklist