
Remembering Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Persistence of Faith
When you became chief rabbi in nineteen ninety one, if ah, it would have surprised you that at this point, ten years into the twenty first century, religion had risen so utterly to the surface of global life? No, actually, a in nineteen ninety, the b b c asked me to give the wreath lectures. They're given once a year their six le son radio first given by bertram russell in nineteen forty eight. And i call them the persistence of faith. Ah, it was probably the first response to francis fulkeyama's vision of the end of history. The most powerful faith in the modern world will be the faith most powerfully opposed to the modern...
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