THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED—STAY TUNED FOR NEW DATES

Albany’s two cathedrals welcome you to hear author and religious scholar Carol Zaleski on March 27th and 28th for her two-part talk, “The Thirst for Eternal Life: Near-Death Experience and Christian Hope.”

Tickets cost $15 per person online and $20 at the door and include both Friday evening at the Cathedral of All Saints at 62 S. Swan St. and Saturday morning at the Cathedral of The Immaculate Conception at 185 Eagle St., both in Albany.

This event is made possible in part by our generous sponsors: ST. PETER’S HEALTH PARTNERS | ALBANY DIOCESAN CEMETERIES| SIENA COLLEGE | MARIA COLLEGE | ST. BERNARD’S SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AND MINISTRY

Carol Zaleski earned her Ph.D. in the study of religion from Harvard University and teaches philosophy of religion, world religions and Christian thought at Smith College. She is the author of Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times and The Life of the World to Come (both Oxford University Press). She is the co-author, with Philip Zaleski, of The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Prayer: A History (Houghton Mifflin), The Book of Heaven (Oxford) and The Book of Hell (forthcoming, Oxford). She is currently working on a book about the search for immortality. She is a columnist and editor-at-large for Christian Century, and has contributed articles and reviews to The New York Times, First Things, America, Second Spring, Nova et Vetera, Communio, Parabola, The Journal of Religion and The Journal of the History of Ideas.