Do We Owe Each Other Anything?
Benedict, Our Church, and a Complicated Century
by Mr. Ray Suarez, Washington-based Senior Correspondent for The NewsHour on PBS

[Note: Ray Suarez' presentation on March 13 will begin at 1:00 p.m. and will take place at University Christian Church, 2720 S. University Drive, Fort Worth. No childcare will be provided. Click here to register.]
On Saturday, March 13, Ray Suarez will talk about the times and places he has seen the values of Benedictine spirituality espoused in the events he has covered, ranging from the recent disaster in Haiti to the first all-race elections in South Africa.

Ray Suarez is a devout Episcopalian whose faith informs his daily work and whose work informs his faith. He joined The NewsHour on PBS in October 1999 as a Washington-based Senior Correspondent. He has more than thirty years of varied experience in the news business. Prior to The NewsHour he worked at National Public Radio where he was host of the nationwide call-in news program "Talk of the Nation" since 1993. Prior to that, he spent seven years covering local, national, and international stories for the NBC-owned station, WMAQ-TV in Chicago. In 2006 Rayo/HarperCollins published his examination of the tightening relationship between religion and politics in America, The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America. The Holy Vote won a 2007 Latino Book Award for Best Religion Book. He has also written The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration (Free Press), and has contributed to several other books, including "How I Learned English" (National Geographic, 2007), "Brooklyn: A State of Mind" (Workman, 2001), "Local Heroes" (Norton, 2000), "Saving America's Treasures" (National Geographic, 2000), and "Last Christmas" (Knopf, 1998). His writing has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and many other publications. A life member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Suarez was a founding member of the Chicago Association of Hispanic Journalists. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and three children.