ANDOVER, Mass.—Robert Fulghum, author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten will discuss “Pluralistic Communities” at an interfaith service at 11 a.m. Sunday, April 10, in Cochran Chapel. The service, which will kick-off Interfaith Week at Phillips Academy, will include readings by Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu students, as well as musical selections performed by the Academy Gospel Choir and other student musical groups.

Fulghum has published seven best-selling books in 27 languages in 103 countries. Growing up in Waco, Texas, he worked in his youth as a ditch digger, newspaper carrier, ranch hand and singing cowboy. After college and a short career with IBM, he returned to graduate school to complete a degree in theology. For 22 years, he served as a parish minister of Unitarian churches in the Pacific Northwest and taught drawing, painting and philosophy at the Lakeside School in Seattle. He is an accomplished painter and sculptor. He also sings, plays the guitar and mando-cello and was a founding member of the authors’ collective rock-and-roll band, the Rock-Bottom Remainders.

The public is invited to attend. Cochran Chapel is handicapped accessible. For more information, call the chapel office at 978-749-4130.