September
9
This event has taken place
An evening with
Don Lemon
in conversation with
Jeff Zucker
Forty years ago, nine out of ten Americans believed in God, more than 70 percent belonged to a synagogue, church or mosque and most were suffused with optimism about their own and America’s futures.
Despite the poverty and racism around him, Don Lemon was one of them: a boy imbued with innocent faith who spent Sunday mornings in a well-pressed suit, seated next to his mother in a pew of a fundamentalist church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Then reality intruded and, like so many others, Lemon began reeling from the buffeting of his faith. Realizing he was gay alienated him from his Evangelical roots. His work as a reporter forced him to confront the rising sense of gloom and distrust that pervaded the nation. The obvious clash between evolving social values and once-sacred traditions felt like a growing peril.
After being ousted from his seat at the pinnacle of American journalism, struggling to recover his equanimity, Lemon began sensing parallels between his own dilemmas and America’s, connections between the waning of faith – not just in a higher power but in ourselves, in each other and our institutions – and the national epidemic of pessimism.
In his new memoir, I Once Was Lost: My Search for God in America, Lemon takes readers along on his journey to explore those connections and his discovery that what he was seeking, and ultimately found, was a new version of what he had felt as a boy: grace, within himself and in this country we call home.
Don Lemon joins us to discuss how his faith was tested, how tribulations made him stronger, the importance of believing in something bigger than self and how we, as individuals and as a nation, can regain our belief in ourselves, our communities and our country.
Don Lemon spent three decades as a local and national news correspondent for NBC and CNN before anchoring his own show on CNN for eight years. The Don Lemon Show currently streams on all major platforms. His last book, This Is the Fire, was a #1 New York Times bestseller.
In conversation with Jeff Zucker, former president of CNN Worldwide and CEO of NBCUniversal.
(Read more about the book here)
Monday, September 9 |
6:30 pm Eastern
In-Person & Online Event
Please note that this event will not be recorded for later viewing.
Monday, September 9 |
6:30 pm
Forty years ago, nine out of ten Americans believed in God, more than 70 percent belonged to a synagogue, church or mosque and most were suffused with optimism about their own and America’s futures.
Despite the poverty and racism around him, Don Lemon was one of them: a boy imbued with innocent faith who spent Sunday mornings in a well-pressed suit, seated next to his mother in a pew of a fundamentalist church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Then reality intruded and, like so many others, Lemon began reeling from the buffeting of his faith. Realizing he was gay alienated him from his Evangelical roots. His work as a reporter forced him to confront the rising sense of gloom and distrust that pervaded the nation. The obvious clash between evolving social values and once-sacred traditions felt like a growing peril.
After being ousted from his seat at the pinnacle of American journalism, struggling to recover his equanimity, Lemon began sensing parallels between his own dilemmas and America’s, connections between the waning of faith – not just in a higher power but in ourselves, in each other and our institutions – and the national epidemic of pessimism.
In his new memoir, I Once Was Lost: My Search for God in America, Lemon takes readers along on his journey to explore those connections and his discovery that what he was seeking, and ultimately found, was a new version of what he had felt as a boy: grace, within himself and in this country we call home.
Don Lemon joins us to discuss how his faith was tested, how tribulations made him stronger, the importance of believing in something bigger than self and how we, as individuals and as a nation, can regain our belief in ourselves, our communities and our country.
Don Lemon spent three decades as a local and national news correspondent for NBC and CNN before anchoring his own show on CNN for eight years. The Don Lemon Show currently streams on all major platforms. His last book, This Is the Fire, was a #1 New York Times bestseller.
In conversation with Jeff Zucker, former president of CNN Worldwide and CEO of NBCUniversal.
(Read more about the book here)
This event has taken place
In-Person & Online Event
Please note that this event will not be recorded for later viewing.
