Chautauqua Institution often lines up a fascinating array of speakers who discuss many of the pressing issues facing our society.

This week, the institution’s morning lecture series focuses on Crises of Faith. The topic meshes well with Chautauqua’s mission of bringing people of different faiths together for civil, enlightening dialogue — but Tuesday’s speech by Katelyn Beaty, Christianity Today editor-at-large, is better termed a missed opportunity than the beginning of an enlightening dialogue.

Beaty spoke of her disappointment of the evangalical community’s support for President Donald Trump in November’s election, feeling the 81 percent of evangalicals who voted for Trump had left her no longer recognizing her faith family and that evangelicalism as a movement had drifted far from its roots.

It would have been interesting to hear how one reaches a population in such a circumstance or how the movement handles situations in which both candidates for president have questionable behavior in their past.

Chautauqua Institution sought to explain the impacts of shifting religious norms for other aspects of public life, how churches are reinventing themselves as moral centers in their communities and to imagine the future of faith and religion.

Beaty’s anti-Trump focus brought us no closer to any answers to such worthwhile questions.