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Panelists from Six Faith Traditions Discuss MotherhoodSeptember 15, 2014
Six women from different faith traditions offered their perspectives on both historical and contemporary views of motherhood on a Sept. 11 panel called NURTURING Faiths: The Intersection Between Motherhood and Religion.”
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Grammy Winner Janis Ian Writes about Project with MT WinterSeptember 10, 2014
Singer-songwriter Janis Ian, best known for her haunting 1975 release “At Seventeen,” recently wrote about her experience in recording an audiobook of Prof. Miriam Therese Winter’s autobiography, The Singer and the Song. The audiobook project is unusual in that Janis also sings 28 of MT’s best loved songs on it.
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Launching a Year of Peace at Convocation 2014September 4, 2014
Hartford Seminary kicked off a new academic year on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014, with a Convocation centering on the theme of peace.
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Seminary Student Speaks at United NationsSeptember 3, 2014
Master of Arts student Gugun Gumilar spoke on Aug. 19, 2014, at the International Young Leader Assembly on “Moral and Innovative Leadership in the 21st Century.” Three hundred young leaders from 80 countries attended the event, held at United Nations headquarters in New York.
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Labyrinth Taking Shape at Hartford SeminaryAugust 29, 2014
Miriam Therese Winter (shown at left on the roller used to prepare the site) has been working with student Jeanne Pedane to organize the effort, which involves laying bricks and crushed stone in a pattern that invites people to walk and contemplate
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Seminary Co-Sponsors 'Muslim Women's Voices at Wesleyan'August 29, 2014
Hartford Seminary and the Muslim Coalition of Connecticut are both co-sponsors for a yearlong series at Wesleyan University called “Muslim Women’s Voices.”
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Former Seminary Professor Clifford Green HonoredAugust 28, 2014
A former professor at Hartford Seminary, Dr. Clifford Green, was awarded a Doctor of Divinity honoris causa by the University of Aberdeen this summer.
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Muslim World Article Sheds Light on New Prime Minister of TurkeyAugust 28, 2014
The new Prime Minister of Turkey, Prof. Dr. Ahmet Davutoğlu, might be poorly known to some.
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Rabbi Stephen Fuchs Has New Book with Forward by Heidi Hadsell
August 22, 2014
Rabbi Stephen Fuchs will discuss his new ground-breaking book, What’s In It For Me : Finding Ourselves in Biblical Narratives on Friday, Sept. 12, 7:30 p.m. at Congregation Beth Israel, 701 Farmington Ave., West Hartford.
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When Worlds Collide: Two Jersey Broads on Life, Love, and the Holy Spirit
August 19, 2014
A video is now available of John Seigenthaler hosting a conversation between Janis Ian and Prof. Miriam Therese Winter. Taped at Scarritt Bennett Center in Nashville in May 2013, the program was called When Worlds Collide: Two Jersey Broads on Life, Love, and the Holy Spirit.