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Religious Education
Council for Interfaith Engagement

Annual Richard L. Evans Memorial Lectures

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Upcoming

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5th Annual Richard L. Evans Memorial Lecture

September 10, 2025 09:30 PM
5th Annual Richard L. Evans Memorial Lecture
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
7:00 pm BYU Hinckley Alumni Building

Join us on September 17, 2025 for the Fifth Annual Richard L. Evans Memorial
Lecture given by Rabbi Shai Held (Hadar Institute).

Rabbi Held’s lecture is titled “Do Jews and Christians Love in the Same Way?”

Rabbi Shai Held-- philosopher, theologian, and Bible scholar-- is President and Dean at the Hadar Institute. He received the prestigious Covenant Award for Excellence in Jewish Education and has been named multiple times by Newsweek as one of the fifty most influential rabbis in America and by the Jewish Daily Forward as one of the fifty most prominent Jews in the world. Rabbi Held is the author of Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence (2013), The Heart of Torah (2017), and Judaism is About Love (2024) and he is the host of Hadar's newest podcast, Answers WithHeld.

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Previous Years

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Convicted Civility: Key to Interfaith Relations

1st Annual Richard L. Evans Memorial Lecture - Dr. Richard Mouw - September 19, 2019
1:09:21
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Finding My Faith: Astrid Tuminez Lecture at BYU

2nd Annual Richard L. Evans Memorial Lecture - UVU President Astrid Tuminez - September 23, 2021
54:54
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Cradle & Cauldron: Dr. Yolanda Pierce Lecture at BYU

Third Annual Richard L. Evans Memorial Lecture - Dr. Yolanda Pierce - September 15, 2022
1:26:22
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Why I am a Believer: Dr. Reza Aslan Lecture at BYU

Fourth Annual Richard L. Evans Memorial Lecture - Dr. Reza Aslan - September 23, 2023
1:27:59
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