Blair Goes Back to School — As Yale Religion Prof
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AFP
September 19, 2008
Former prime minister Tony Blair has gone back to school, launching his new role as a lecturer on religion at top US university Yale.
Blair, who converted to Catholicism after leaving office in 2007 and talked increasingly openly of his Christian faith while prime minister, delivered the first of five lectures on Friday at the prestigious college in the state of Connecticut.
An enthusiastic audience of more than 2,000 students later thronged the ornate Woolsey Hall to hear a talk by Blair, who was in office from 1997 to 2007.
Blair is to give five lectures to a class of 25 students between now and the end of the year, then repeat the schedule for two more years, Yale spokesmen told AFP.
The course he is co-teaching as Yale’s Howland Distinguished Fellow is linked to the work of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, which seeks to work for peace between religions in an age of globalization.
