Area To Get National Spotlight
9/24/2006 - Chautauqua Institution To Have Special On CBS Discussing Its Culture, Religion
By The Post-Journal Staff
Chautauqua: An Interfaith Experience, a special exploring a historic setting for cultural and religious learning, will be broadcast at 8 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 8 on the CBS television network.
Chautauqua: An Interfaith Experience explores the Chautauqua Institution, a summer cultural and religious retreat in Chautauqua. Since 1874, for the price of a ticket, people of all ages and faiths have entered the community to experience and discuss various aspects of music, art, drama and religion. Originally created as a summer retreat for Sunday school teachers, the founders, the Rev. John Heyl Vincent, a Methodist minister, and Lewis Miller, an inventor, believed that in order to be a well-rounded religious person, one must also cultivate an intellectual curiosity for ideas outside the teachings of the Bible.
‘‘Without knowledge, Miller and Vincent believed religion was void and empty, but without religion, knowledge was formless, meaningless and pointless,’’ said Jon Schmitz, Chautauqua historian.
The program includes an interview with Schmitz; Tom Becker, Chautauqua Institution president; and the Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, Chautauqua Institution religion director; as well as the Rev. Dr. Albert J.D. Aymer, president of Hood Theological Seminary in Salisbury, N.C. Also featured is Kevin Sixbey, director of the Abrahamic Youth Program for young adults, and four student leaders — Dawud Bell, Michael Harmon, Julianne Hazen and Alanna Hoyer-Oetizel. The goal of the group is to dispel the stereotypes of the Muslim, Christian and Jewish faith traditions by organizing informal weekly conversations with visiting religious leaders and other young adults visiting Chautauqua.
As part of the broadcast, the Rev. Ted Anderson, pastor of the Hurlbut Memorial Community United Methodist Church in Chautauqua, leads a tour of Palestine Park, a not-to-scale model of the Holy Land, on the institution’s grounds. United Methodist House, one of the oldest denominational houses at the institution, is also visited. Nancy Miller Arnn, the granddaughter of Chautauqua founder Lewis Miller, talks about the sense of vibrant history at Chautauqua not only through the long list of American presidents, Pulitzer Prize winners and artists who have attended and spoken at the institution, but also in the families who return every year. She is joined by her daughter, Mina Miller Weiler, son Ted Arnn and their families, who continue the tradition, as well as the Karslake’s — an eighth-generation Chautauqua family.
John P. Blessington is the executive producer of the special and Liz Kineke is the producer. The special is being produced with the cooperation of the National Council of Churches, The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Islamic Society of North America, and a consortium of Jewish organizations.
By The Post-Journal Staff
Chautauqua: An Interfaith Experience, a special exploring a historic setting for cultural and religious learning, will be broadcast at 8 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 8 on the CBS television network.
Chautauqua: An Interfaith Experience explores the Chautauqua Institution, a summer cultural and religious retreat in Chautauqua. Since 1874, for the price of a ticket, people of all ages and faiths have entered the community to experience and discuss various aspects of music, art, drama and religion. Originally created as a summer retreat for Sunday school teachers, the founders, the Rev. John Heyl Vincent, a Methodist minister, and Lewis Miller, an inventor, believed that in order to be a well-rounded religious person, one must also cultivate an intellectual curiosity for ideas outside the teachings of the Bible.
‘‘Without knowledge, Miller and Vincent believed religion was void and empty, but without religion, knowledge was formless, meaningless and pointless,’’ said Jon Schmitz, Chautauqua historian.
The program includes an interview with Schmitz; Tom Becker, Chautauqua Institution president; and the Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, Chautauqua Institution religion director; as well as the Rev. Dr. Albert J.D. Aymer, president of Hood Theological Seminary in Salisbury, N.C. Also featured is Kevin Sixbey, director of the Abrahamic Youth Program for young adults, and four student leaders — Dawud Bell, Michael Harmon, Julianne Hazen and Alanna Hoyer-Oetizel. The goal of the group is to dispel the stereotypes of the Muslim, Christian and Jewish faith traditions by organizing informal weekly conversations with visiting religious leaders and other young adults visiting Chautauqua.
As part of the broadcast, the Rev. Ted Anderson, pastor of the Hurlbut Memorial Community United Methodist Church in Chautauqua, leads a tour of Palestine Park, a not-to-scale model of the Holy Land, on the institution’s grounds. United Methodist House, one of the oldest denominational houses at the institution, is also visited. Nancy Miller Arnn, the granddaughter of Chautauqua founder Lewis Miller, talks about the sense of vibrant history at Chautauqua not only through the long list of American presidents, Pulitzer Prize winners and artists who have attended and spoken at the institution, but also in the families who return every year. She is joined by her daughter, Mina Miller Weiler, son Ted Arnn and their families, who continue the tradition, as well as the Karslake’s — an eighth-generation Chautauqua family.
John P. Blessington is the executive producer of the special and Liz Kineke is the producer. The special is being produced with the cooperation of the National Council of Churches, The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Islamic Society of North America, and a consortium of Jewish organizations.
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