Andrew Sullivan, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Dahlia Lithwick, Charlotte Ballet, Bill Moyers and Sheryl Crow headline third week of Chautauqua Institution’s 2017 season.

Chautauqua Institution is proud to announce the program lineup for Week Three of its 2017 season.The week, which begins today and concludes July 15, features presentations by renowned guests such as writer Andrew Sullivan, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Slate editor Dahlia Lithwick and broadcaster Bill Moyers.

Chautauqua Institution’s nine-week summer season features morning and afternoon lectures focusing on weekly cultural themes. The morning lecture series will take place at 10:45 a.m. Monday through Friday in the Amphitheater. Titled “A Crisis of Faith?”, the Week Three theme focuses on changes in American religious life — a growing non-religious and Muslim population and a declining mainstream Christian and Jewish population.

The Interfaith Lecture Series, at 2 p.m. weekdays in the Hall of Philosophy, also focuses on the theme “A Crisis of Faith?” Speakers throughout the week will consider what possibilities the future holds for people of faith — and of no faith — in the United States. Moyers will host all five programs, closing the week with a solo lecture.

The Rev. Teresa L. Fry Brown will serve as the ecumenical guest chaplain for the week, Brown is the Bandy Professor of Preaching at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the first black and the first woman to hold what many consider to be the most prestigious preaching professorate in America. She is an ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and an associate minister at New Bethel A.M.E. Church, Lithonia, Georgia.

Monday

Morning: Andrew Sullivan is a contributing editor at New York Magazine, a blogger and an author known for his provocative, astute political and social commentary. From 2000 to 2015, he chronicled every major political and cultural moment in real time on his blog, The Dish, which called both Time and The Atlantic home before Sullivan began running it independently. After retiring The Dish and from blogging in 2015, Sullivan joined New York magazine in 2016, and has since covered both conventions, in addition to politics and culture. Sullivan is the author of the forthcoming book “Keeping the Faith.” An openly gay, practicing Roman Catholic, he was one of the earliest activists for same-sex marriage. He set the gay rights movement’s agenda for the following two decades with landmark works: 1995’s “Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality” and 1989’s “Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage.”

Afternoon: Robert P. Jones is the founding CEO of the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), a columnist for The Atlantic online and the author of The End of White Christian America, a New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice” book. A leading scholar and commentator on religion, culture and politics, Jones is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on religion and public policy, and appears regularly in a “Faith by the Numbers” segment on Interfaith Voices, the nation’s leading religion news magazine on public radio. He is frequently featured in major national media such as CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post and others. Broadcaster Bill Moyers will join Jones in conversation.

Tuesday

Morning: Katelyn Beaty served as the youngest and first female managing editor for Christianity Today, evangelicalism’s flagship magazine. Currently the magazine’s editor-at-large, she is the author of”A Woman’s Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home and the World.” Beaty has written for The Washington Post, The Atlantic and The New York Times and has commented on faith and culture for CNN, ABC, NPR, the Associated Press, Religion News Service, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and McClatchy Newspapers.

Afternoon: The Rev. Susan K. Smith is the founder and leader of the private non-profit organization Crazy Faith Ministries which aims to unpack and teach the concept of faith in a way which empowers people and enables them to reach far beyond what they believe themselves able to do. She is the author of five books. Her work has also appeared weekly in The Washington Post. She also has her own blog, Candid Observations, which concentrates on the intersection of race, politics, and religion. Moyers will join Smith in conversation.

Wednesday

Morning: Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate and, in that capacity, writes the “Supreme Court Dispatches” and “Jurisprudence” columns. Frequently, that writing includes the intersection of issues of faith and issues of legality. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, The Washington Post and Commentary, among other places. She also serves as a lecturer on the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law. A frequent speaker on legal issues, she is a frequent guest on KCRW’s “Left, Right and Center,” and has appeared on “The Rachel Maddow Show.” She is the co-author of “Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World,” a legal humor book, and “I Will Sing Life: Voices from the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp,” a book about seven children from Paul Newman’s camp with life-threatening illnesses.

Afternoon: Greg M. Epstein has been serving as the humanist chaplain at Harvard University since 2005, and is author of the New York Times bestselling book “Good without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe.” He recently served as vice president of the 36-member corps Harvard Chaplains, and is currently a member of Boston Mayor Martin Walsh’s inaugural Interfaith Advisory Task Force. He is also the executive director of the Humanist Community at Harvard and its Humanist Hub, the first-ever Center for Humanist Life on a university campus. He has helped establish similar organizations at Yale, Stanford and other universities. Moyers will join Epstein in conversation.

Thursday

Morning: An international religious leader, philosopher, award-winning author and respected moral voice, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks served as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth for 22 years, from 1991 to 2013. Since 2013, Sacks has held a number of professorships at several academic institutions, including Yeshiva University and King’s College London. He currently serves as the Ingeborg and Ira Rennert Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. Sacks is the author of more than 30 books, including his most recent, “Not in God’s Name,” which was awarded a 2015 National Jewish Book Award and was a top 10 Sunday Times best-seller in the United Kingdom. Past works include “The Great Partnership” and “The Dignity of Difference,” winner of the Grawemeyer Prize for Religion in 2004 for its success in defining a framework for interfaith dialogue between people of all faith and of none.

Afternoon: Rabbi Sid Schwarz is a social entrepreneur, author and teacher. He created and directs the Clergy Leadership Incubator (CLI), a program that trains rabbis to be visionary spiritual leaders. He also created and directs the Kenissa: Communities of Meaning Network which is building the capacity of emerging spiritual communities across the country. Schwarz founded and led PANIM: The Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values for 21 years. He is also the founding rabbi of Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation in Bethesda, Maryland, where he continues to teach and lead services. Schwarz is the author of two groundbreaking books: “Finding a Spiritual Home: How a New Generation of Jews Can Transform the American Synagogue” and “Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World.” Moyers will join Schwarz in conversation.

Friday

Morning: Named by US News & World Report as one of America’s Best Leaders of 2009, Eboo Patel is the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), a Chicago-based organization building the interfaith movement on college campuses. He served on President Barack Obama’s inaugural Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Patel is a young global leader in the World Economic Forum and an Ashoka Fellow, part of a select group of social entrepreneurs whose ideas are changing the world. Patel is the author of “Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim in the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation,” which won the Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion, “Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America” and “Interfaith Leadership: A Primer.”

Afternoon: A broadcast journalist for more than four decades, Bill Moyers has been recognized as one of the unique voices of our times, one that resonates with multiple generations. With his wife and creative partner, Judith Davidson Moyers, Bill Moyers has produced such groundbreaking public affairs series as “NOW with Bill Moyers” (2002-2005), “Bill Moyers Journal” (2007-2010) and “Moyers & Company” (2011-2015). Since the company’s founding in 1986, other notable productions have included the landmark 1988 series, “Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth,” as well as “Healing and the Mind,” “The Language of Life,” “Genesis,” “On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying,” “Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home,” “America’s First River,” “Becoming American: The Chinese Experience,” “Faith & Reason” and “Moyers on America.”

Additional Lectures

12:30 p.m., Monday, Hall of Philosophy: Catherine O’Donnell is associate professor of history at Arizona State University. She is the author of “Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship,” as well as articles appearing in The William and Mary Quarterly, The Journal of the Early Republic, Early American Literature and U.S. Catholic Historian. She is currently completing a biography of Elizabeth Ann Seton, founder of the American Daughters of Charity and a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

3:30 p.m., Monday, Hall of Philosophy: Alan Cooperman is director of religion research at the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, where he oversees a staff of more than 20 researchers who conduct surveys, demographic analyses and other empirical studies around the world. He is an expert on religion’s role in American politics and foreign policy, and he has supervised the Center’s landmark studies on the rise of the “nones” and other changes in the U.S. religious landscape, as well as many international surveys of religion. Before joining the Center in 2009, he was a national reporter and editor at The Washington Post, foreign editor of U.S. News & World Report, and a foreign correspondent (in Moscow and Jerusalem) for U.S. News & World Report and The Associated Press.

3:30 p.m. Thursday, Hall of Philosophy: Arlie Russell Hochschild is a professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley; her work has long focused on the human emotions which underlie moral beliefs, practices, and social life generally. She is the author of nine books, including “The Managed Heart,” “The Second Shift,” “The Time Bind and Global Women.” Hochschild visits Chautauqua this week to discuss her book “Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right” as the CLSC author.

Amphitheater Entertainment

Aside from the daily lectures, Week Three features a variety of evening entertainment programs at the Amphitheater.

At 2:30 p.m., Sunday, the United States Army Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus plays its annual Chautauqua concert. The field band has participated in numerous presidential inaugural parades and has supported many diplomatic missions overseas. Known for performing the music of Broadway, opera, barbershop quartet and Americana, the Soldiers’ Chorus will join them.

¯ The School of Music’s festival orchestra performs at 8:15 p.m., Monday. Music Director Timothy Muffitt serves as the conductor. The festival’s program features Antonin Dvorak’s “Carnival Overture,” Ottorino Respighi’s “Fountains of Rome” and Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Symphony in F-sharp major. Tickets are $43.

The Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra joins the Charlotte Ballet for a performance at 8:15 p.m., Tuesday. This performance celebrates longtime Charlotte Ballet and Chautauqua Dance Artistic Director Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, his celebrated dance career, masterful choreographic works and visionary leadership. At the end of the season, Bonnefoux retires as artistic director of Charlotte Ballet, but will continue directing the Chautauqua School of Dance. In this celebratory performance joined by the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, audiences will enjoy a varied repertoire featuring classical favorites, masterworks and a world premiere. Tickets are $43.

The Raleigh Ringers return to Chautauqua at 8:15 p.m., Wednesday. This internationally acclaimed concert handbell choir has been dazzling audiences with unique interpretations of sacred, secular and popular music. Under the direction of David M. Harris, the Raleigh Ringers have performed in 39 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, as well as throughout France and Canada. In addition to six albums, the ensemble is known for holiday concerts that have been broadcast on over 250 American public television stations in 45 states. Tickets are $20.

The Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra’s “Music as Muse” performance takes place at 8:15 p.m., Thursday, July 13. The night’s repertoire includes Christopher Theofanidis’ “Muse,” Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major and Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 in G major. One of the most sought-after soloists in his generation of young American musicians, Orion Weiss serves as the pianist on the concerto; he has performed with the major American orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and New York Philharmonic. Tickets are $20. A pre-performance lecture will take place at 6:45 p.m. in the Hurlbut Church Sanctuary.

Nine-time Grammy Award-winner Sheryl Crow performs at 8:15 p.m., Friday. Crow’s 10 studio albums have sold 50 million copies worldwide; seven of them charted in the Top 10 and five were certified for Multi-Platinum sales. In addition to such No. 1 hits as “All I Wanna Do,” “Soak Up the Sun” and “The First Cut Is the Deepest,” Crow has lofted 40 singles into the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Top 40, Adult Contemporary, Mainstream Top 40 and Hot Country Songs charts, with more No. 1 singles in the Triple A listings than any other female artist. Many artists have collaborated with her on special projects, including the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Smokey Robinson and Tony Bennett. Tickets are $64.50-$94.50.

Alternative Entertainment Options

The Akropolis Reed Quintet performs at 4 p.m., Monday, in Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall.

Founded in 2009 at the University of Michigan and the first ever reed quintet to win the Fischoff Gold Medal in 2014, Akropolis took Grand Prize at the MTNA and Plowman chamber music competitions consecutively in 2011, and has garnered prizes at three additional national competitions. Championing the next generation of maverick musicians, Akropolis is also winner of the 2015 Fischoff Educator Award, delivering impactful outreach at schools ranging from kindergarten to conservatory.

Gate Pass Information

Day tickets are available for purchase at the Main Gate Welcome Center Ticket Office on the day of your visit. Morning tickets grant visitors access to the grounds from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. for $24. Afternoon tickets grant access from noon-8 p.m. for $17. Combined morning/afternoon passes allow access from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. and cost $41. Evening passes grant access from 4 p.m. to midnight with the cost varying based on the evening entertainment. For tickets and information, visit chqtickets.com or call 357-6250.

About Chautauqua Institution

Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue.