On Thursday, Sept. 13, at 7 p.m. in Sussman Theater, The Comparison Project will host its first lecture in its fall 2018 series on miracles, which will be delivered by Kenneth Woodward.

Kenneth Woodward served as Religion Editor of Newsweek for 38 years. In addition to some 100 cover stories for Newsweek, his articles, essays, and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Commonweal, First Things, America, The Nation, and The Weekly Standard. Among his numerous awards are the National Magazine Award, the Pulitzer Prize of the magazine industry, and the Robert E. Griffin Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Art of Writing from the University of Notre Dame, his alma mater. Mr. Woodward is the author of four books, including his recently published “Getting Religion: Faith, Culture and Politics from the Age of Eisenhower to Ascent of Trump,” which is available in paperback after his lecture.

In his lecture, Mr. Woodward will emphasize the essentially narrative character of miracles, whether they are found in sacred literature or in personal experience. In doing so, he will draw on two of his own books, “The Book of Miracles: The Meaning of the Miracle Stories in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam,” and “Making Saints: How the Catholic Church Determines Who Becomes a Saint, Who Doesn’t, and Why,” the latter of which contains a chapter on how church authorities validate miraculous claims.

Monique Rodriguez, College of Arts and Sciences