Events

3:30 pm

The Journal of Interreligious Studies and its partners, including Hartford International University, are leading an online symposium and workshop led by educators, scholars, and experts in interfaith/interreligious studies and pedagogies. The symposium expands on the special issue (No. 36) on the

9:30 am

  For 40 years, Hartford Institute for Religion Research has produced congregational research and insights into the religious landscape. Join us to celebrate the Institute and the four decades of staff that made this possible. This day-long conference will highlights the past products and

10:00 am

Christmas in January? Indeed, for some Christians! And for some, other feast days at that time of year are at least as important! Why and how do various branches of Christianity observe Christmas differently? What does this mean for holiday greetings? Christmas parties? How might you rethink “the

7:00 pm

  Start Here will be a two-hour, online exploration of meeting the living moment as we find it through our words. Learn from Kristopher Drummond, contemplative wilderness guide, writer, and teacher living in the Blue Ridge of the Appalachian Mountains. Writing, the kind that counts, emerges

7:00 am

  Blessed Are the Peace Makers! Join us for a morning of prayer from many different faith perspectives at the Artists Collective at 1200 Albany Ave., Hartford. Since 1997 the Greater Hartford Multi-Faith Prayer Breakfast has reached across religious boundaries to find and celebrate those

6:00 pm

Please joins us as an interreligious panel discusses Harvey Paris's artwork, followed by a reception and viewing of the work. Abraham's Gifts by artist Harvey Paris is a 20-page carved leather book. Each page is an original 11” x 14” leather carving. The carvings illustrates the teachings of

6:00 pm

Come celebrate with us! Hartford International University announces a festive evening to toast and launch the newly endowed Miriam Therese Winter Chair of Transformative Leadership and Spirituality. We will honor Dr. MT Winter and her visionary witness and leadership and meet Dr. Lisa Dahill (its

4:00 pm

MEET AT 76 SHERMAN STREET, HARTFORD, FOR THIS EVENT This experiential workshop will be an immersion into a wild spirituality: a chance to explore the sacred fully present and alive within and as the living natural world itself. Our time together will include indoor presentation and discussion,

7:00 pm

NOTE: THIS CO-SPONSORED EVENT TAKES PLACE AT THE JOHN P. WEBSTER LIBRARY AT FIRST CHURCH WEST HARTFORD, 12 S. MAIN ST., WEST HARTFORD. Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus is both a bridge and a barrier between Christianity and Islam. How did some doctrines become

10:00 am

  Join us in this co-sponsored event as we look at religious justifications for enslavement in the trans-Atlantic and trans-Saharan world. About this event The eighteenth century saw an unprecedented rise in the number of persons enslaved, transported, and sold in the Americas, North Africa,