Events for November 2018

Please join us in Santa Fe and Las Vegas, NM for the eighth annual Fred Harvey History Weekend, celebrating the living history of Fred Harvey, the Harvey Girls, Mary Colter, the ATSF railroad and their way of allowing us to explore the cultural legacies of the Great Southwest. There will be talks from 1-5 PM on Friday (11/2) and Saturday (11/3) at the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe. And presentations on Sunday 11/4 at the Plaza Hotel in […]

Keynote speech by Stephen Fried

From the late 1700s—when Dr. Benjamin Rush first explained that mental illness and addiction were medical conditions, and not failures of religious belief or will—until today, faith communities have struggled to know how best to address brain diseases among their congregants. Bestselling author Stephen Fried, a longtime member of BZBI, will discuss these issues based on his recent book on mental health politics, A Common Struggle, which he wrote with Congressman Patrick Kennedy, and his new biography of the founding […]