Feeling a little empty in the soul department? Seattle University is host on Saturday to a gathering of the “best regional authors and works on issues of spirituality, faith, church-state matters, and theology.”
The largest spirituality book festival in the Northwest is taking place this Saturday at SU, featuring keynote speakers Kathleen Norris and Gustav Niebuhr. The event is free to the public and organizers are expecting hundreds for the daylong event, which features nearly 50 authors. The festival is co-sponsored by Elliott Bay Book Company, the Seattle University Bookstore and Humanities Washington.
Keynote speaker Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Norris is the award-winning poet, writer and author of The New York Times bestsellers “The Cloister Walk,” “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography,” “Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith” and “The Virgin of Bennington.” Gustav Niebuhr, a former reporter for The New York Times and The Washington Post, is the author of “Beyond Tolerance: How People Across America Are Building Bridges Between Faiths.” He is an associate professor of religion and the media at Syracuse University and a regular contributor to the “On Faith” blog for The Washington Post and Newsweek.
The festival is free and runs from 9 AM to 5 PM in Seattle University’s Pigott Auditorium.
