Lord Jonathan Sacks Wins Templeton Prize

05-sacks-600The winner of this year’s Templeton Prize for his work respecting all faiths is 67-year-old British rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. One of Sacks’s greatest interests has been the need for both religion and science. I interviewed him last year:

Lord Jonathan Sacks: Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

The Templeton Prize is given each year in recognition of the need for spirituality in today’s world. Its founder, philanthropist Sir John Templeton, insisted that the value of his prize each year should exceed that of the Nobel Prizes. This year that is about one-and-a-half million dollars.

Watch our 2015 interviews with Lord Jonathan Sacks here, here, and here.

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