9.3.04

Karen Armstrong

Last night Union Seminary's Barry Ulnalov lecturer was Karen Armstrong, the former nun who went on to tv and literary stardom as a guide to religion. I enjoyed her work History of God, and I went expecting to hear her wax philiosophic...but this was a spiritual memoir event that weighed heavy on the memoir trope of "how a reject became famous" -- she was funny and charming but ultimately she had very little to say.