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May 18, 2021

Professor David N. Hempton to Deliver the 2020–21 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh

A series of six lectures to be delivered in academic session 2020–2021.

March 18, 2021

Former Gifford Lecturer John Polkinghorne dies at age 90.

October 12, 2020

In Memoriam: John D. Barrow. Remembering the maverick physicist who pioneered an “anthropic” approach to cosmology.

April 27, 2020

2017 Gifford Lecturer Agustín Fuentes elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

From the Princeton University Anthropology news

April 13, 2020

Athens and Jerusalem: God, Humans, and Nature

Based on his 2017 Gifford Lectures, David Novak’s Athens and Jerusalem: God, Humans, an

April 2, 2020

Peter Harrison

Born in 1955 in Australia, Peter Harrison is an Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the In