God at 2000's panel brings together seven men and women from the worlds of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity to answer the question, "How do you see God?" Each will reveal how they see the sacred—not necessarily as representatives of their respective religious traditions, but from their own personal faiths Audience members will be able to ask questions of the speakers live via email or telephone. The schedule for the teleconference is:

Friday, February 11

Noon - 1:15 pm	Marcus Borg, Hundere Professor of Religion and Culture at Oregon State University, lecturer and author of ten books, including the best-selling Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time and the award-winning The God We Never Knew.
1:15 - 1:45 pm	Break
1:45 - 3:00 pm	Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religions and Indian Studies at Harvard. Author or editor of five books on religion in India, her best-known book is the award-winning Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banares.
3:00 - 4:30 pm	Break
4:30 - 5:45 pm	Lawrence Kushner, rabbi, author and lecturer whose work reflects the Jewish mystical tradition. His ten books include The River of Light, Honey from the Rock, The Book of Words, and most recently, Eyes Remade for Wonder.
5:45 - 6:15 pm	Break
6:15 - 7:30 pm	Joan Chittister, Benedictine sister, lecturer and author of 19 books, recipient of the first place book award from the Catholic Press Association. Her newest books are In Search of Belief and Heart of Flesh: A Feminist Spirituality for Women and Men.

Saturday, February 12

Noon - 1:15 pm	Seyyed Hossein Nasr, University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University. One of the world's leading experts on Islam, he has been a Gifford Lecturer and is the author of over 20 books and 250 articles.
1:15 - 1:45 pm	Break
1:45 - 3:00 pm	Karen Armstrong, a leading commentator on religious affairs, author of 10 books, including the best-selling A History of God: A 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. She spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun and became a freelance writer and television broadcaster in 1982.
3:00 - 4:30 pm	Break
4:30 - 5:45 pm	Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, retired Archbishop of Cape Town, churchman, author, and lecturer.
5:45 - 6:15	Break
6:15 - 7:30 pm	Closing Panel Discussion

John Covach, mentor to the Episcopal Campus Ministry and associate professor of music at UNC-Chapel Hill commented, "What I like best about this conference is that it will be devoted more to asking the right questions about spiritual life than to providing ready-made answers. I think students are looking for that kind of challenge."

Mary Alice Scott, Program Director of the SKSF, agrees. "We're excited about this event because it combines critical intellectual understanding with personal experience and insight. Students are hungry for this sort of approach to spiritual matters."

Fred Burnham, Director of the Trinity Institute, one of the national sponsors of "God at 2000" added: "This is just the kind of collaboration we'd hoped to see come from this event—diverse campus groups talking about spirituality and its connection to intellectual life."

Nationally, "God at 2000" is sponsored by The Hundere Endowment for Religion and Culture at Oregon State University; The Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York; Trinity Institute of Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York. It is also Trinity Institute's 31^st National Conference. The telecast will be broadcast over the Episcopal Cathedral Teleconferencing Network, and is produced by LINKS: Connecting Head and Heart on Campus. LINKS is a new telecommunications initiative that seeks to create communities of dialogue on college/university campuses that connect spiritual and intellectual life in addressing today's critical issues. LINKS seeks to draw diverse campus constituencies together in conversation with respected public intellectuals and spiritual leaders, and to encourage interdisciplinary, interfaith, and intergenerational dialogue.

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The Self Knowledge Symposium Foundation (SKSF) is a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging people to consciously develop their own personal, moral and spiritual values and to live according to them. The SKSF has been praised as "the hottest thing happening in higher education today" by Dr. William Willimon, Dean of Duke University Chapel, ranked by Newsweek as one of the top ten preachers in the English-speaking world, and author of The Search for Meaning. At the forefront of the national interest in spirituality, the SKSF creates experiential learning programs and social contexts within which people can explore the deeper questions in life, developing intellectual understanding and personal character in a quest for the life worth living. The SKSF advises the SKS campus groups, sponsors a non-student discussion group, and co-sponsors meetings, lectures, retreats and The Symposium spiritual journal. For more information, visit www.selfknowledge.org.

Duke University Chapel: www.chapel.duke.edu
Episcopal Cathedral Teleconferencing Network: www.ectn.org/god2000.html
The Freeman Center for Jewish Life at Duke University: fcjl.stuaff.duke.edu
The Kenan Ethics Program: kenan.ethics.duke.edu
UNC Episcopal Campus Ministry: www.unc.edu/student/orgs/ecm