PBS Wisdom Keepers Film Series

Episode 4: The Search for Meaning

Watch, reflect, discuss, and explore what common ground can look like in everyday life.

NOLS is excited to present Wisdom Keepers, a new PBS Books 8-episode film series that celebrates knowledge, storytelling, and resilience within communities across America. As part of a national initiative, the Library invites viewers to reflect, listen, and engage in meaningful discussions about belonging, hope, and the pursuit of wisdom.

Wisdom Keepers aims to explore the perspectives that help us understand our identity and direction, especially during these turbulent times. The series features interviews with some of the world's most insightful thinkers, mystics, historians, ethicists, faith leaders, and scientists. They tackle life's fundamental questions that most of us rarely have the time to consider in our busy lives. Attendees will be invited to participate in a guided discussion focused on ways to strengthen bonds within our community.

Whether you come to listen, share your perspective, or reflect on the ideas presented, this program offers an opportunity to engage in meaningful conversation.

Episode 4: Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas - The Search for Meaning
In this episode of Wisdom Keepers, Host Ray Suarez speaks with Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas, Episcopal Priest and Public Theologian, about the search for the meaning, and the duty of faith and religious leaders to create a vision for a better and more just world. Wisdom Keepers seek s to revisit the perspectives that help us make sense of who we are and where er are going in these turbulent times.

About Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas, PH.D:  The Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas, Ph.D., is Interim President of the Episcopal Divinity School. She served as Dean at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Theology from 2017 to 2023, and holds the Bill and Judith Moyers Chair in Theology. Additionally, she is the Canon Theologian at the Washington National Cathedral and Theologian in Residence at Trinity Church Wall Street. Previously, she was a Professor at Goucher College and the Howard University School of Divinity, and she also taught at Edward Waters College. Ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1983, she holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in systematic theology from Union. Douglas has authored six books, including Sexuality and the Black Church, Stand Your Ground, and Resurrection Hope, the latter winning the 2023 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Her scholarship focuses on womanist theology, sexuality, and the Black church.

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