The evening will feature two local celebrities, each outstanding in his own field—religion and business—having an interactive discussion about how money and success relate to one's spiritual life. Is it possible to achieve success without selling your soul? Can you be true to yourself, serve others, and make a living all at the same time? Willimon and Turak will tackle these and other questions in this timely discussion.

Turak started his own spiritual journey in his early 20s when he dropped out of the University of Pittsburgh to spend five life-altering years studying with the American Zen Master, Richard Rose. After returning to school to earn a degree, he entered the business world as the protégé of Lou Mobley, founder of the IBM Executive School. Applying lessons of personal and organizational transformation learned from these two teachers, Turak became a founding member of MTV and continued on to hold executive positions at the Arts & Entertainment Channel, Adelphia Cable, and UPI.

Shortly after his move to Raleigh in 1989, Turak was asked by students from North Carolina State University to help them launch the Self Knowledge Symposium, which has since developed campus chapters at State, Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill, and has provided national programs for hundreds of students around the country to address spiritual questions of purpose and identity. In the early 90s he launched two multi-million dollar software companies in the Triangle, which he and his business partners sold in 2000, allowing him to retire at age 49 to pursue graduate studies in theology and long-overdue writing projects. Turak provides a unique perspective as a spiritual "seeker" and businessman, and his stories illustrate how one can succeed in the world while also remaining true to one's deepest spiritual values.

Dr. William H. Willimon has been Dean of the Chapel and Professor of Christian Ministry at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina since 1984. He preaches each Sunday in the Duke Chapel at the center of Duke's campus and directs the program of campus ministry there. He also serves as a professor in the Duke Divinity School and teaches a popular course in Duke's undergraduate curriculum, "The Search for Meaning." Dr. Willimon is a graduate of Wofford College (B.A., 1968), Yale Divinity School (M. Div., 1971) and Emory University (S.T.D., 1973). He is the author of fifty books, including Resident Aliens, of which 100,000 copies were sold. Over a million copies of his books have been sold. In 1996, an international survey conducted by Baylor University named him one of the Twelve Most Effective Preaches in the English speaking world. His articles have appeared in many publications including The Christian Ministry, Quarterly Review, Liturgy, Worship, and Christianity Today. He is Editor-at-Large for The Christian Century. He has served as Editor and Expositor (with his wife, Patricia) for Abingdon's International Lesson Annual.

The "Finding Your Own Path" lecture series is made possible by a prestigious grant by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. Other speakers include: Fr. Francis Kline, O.C.S.O., Abbot of Mepkin Abbey, SC; Fleet Maull, Buddhist founder of both the Prison Dharma Network, and the National Prison Hospice Society; William Willimon, renowned author and Dean of Duke Chapel; and August Turak, prominent software entrepreneur and board chair of the Self Knowledge Symposium Foundation. Duke's Interfaith Dialogue Project, an initiative which fosters understanding and respect for religious pluralism and diversity, is a cosponsor of "Finding Your Own Path." Ed Cheely, Trinity '00 graduate and SKSF Director of Development, will also help coordinate the series.

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The Duke Chapel Pathways Program (www.dukeservantleader.org) nurtures and equips undergraduate students who seek to serve as leaders of congregations or other religious institutions that are engaged in ongoing service to humanity. It assists students in understanding their future work in light of their faith commitments while bringing faith into vocation, culture into communities, theological reflection into academia and worship into everyday living.

The Duke Interfaith Dialogue Project (kenan.ethics.duke.edu/links6.asp), an initiative which fosters understanding and respect for religious pluralism and diversity, is co-sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Ethics and Duke Chapel. It has sponsored special programs as well as a student-run course, "Religious Diversity in America," which examines several major faiths, and promotes respectful understanding of how Duke students express their different spiritual traditions on campus.

The Freeman Center for Jewish Life (fcjl.studentaffairs.duke.edu) provides opportunities for Jewish students to explore and celebrate their Jewish identity. The Freeman Center actively engages Jewish students by providing them with opportunities to do Jewish activities that are meaningful and appealing to them. FCJL maintains a pluralistic approach to Judaism through social, educational, religious, cultural, and outreach activities.

The Kenan Institute for Ethics (kenan.ethics.duke.edu) is a university-wide initiative at Duke University that supports the study and teaching of ethics and promotes moral reflection and commitment in personal, professional, community, and civic life. Their work is guided by the conviction that universities have a responsibility to prepare students for lives of personal integrity and reflective citizenship by nurturing their capacities for critical thinking, compassion, courage, and their concern for justice.

The Newman Catholic Student Center (www.duke.edu/web/catholic) fosters unity within the Catholic community on campus and in the surrounding area. Through prayer, worship, sacraments, and education, the CSC strengthens its communion with God; through service and fellowship, it strengthens its communion with all people.

The Self Knowledge Symposium Foundation (www.selfknowledge.org) is a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit organization that encourages people to consciously develop their own personal, moral and spiritual values and to live according to them. 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.