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Dr. Andrew Gardner Joins Faculty as Louisville Post Doc Research Fellow
October 22, 2020
Hartford Seminary is pleased to welcome Dr. Andrew Gardner as Visiting Faculty Associate in American Religious History and Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hartford Institute of Religion Research.
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Dr. Najib George Awad Has Two New Books Published
October 15, 2020
Najib George Awad, Professor of Christian Theology & Eastern Christian Thought, has two new books out this fall, one in Arabic and one in English.
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Dr. Lucinda Mosher Featured in Video on Building Bridges Seminar
October 13, 2020
Lucinda Mosher, Faculty Associate in Interfaith Studies, is interviewed in the video below that talks about the 18-year history of the Building Bridges Seminar, which brings together Christian and Muslim scholars for intensive study each year.
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Dr. Bilal Ansari Writes Chapter for Postcolonial Critique of Spiritual Care
October 8, 2020
Bilal Ansari, Faculty Associate in Muslim Pastoral Theology, has written a chapter for an anthology described as a “postcolonial critique of spiritual care.”
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Hartford Seminary to Collaborate with Judson Memorial on $1 Million-Funded Program
October 2, 2020
A $1 million grant from the Lilly Endowment’s Thriving Congregations Initiative has been awarded to Bricks and Mortals, a Judson Memorial Church-based organization devoted to proposing sustainable solutions for congregational buildings, along with collaborators Hartford Seminary and Partners for Sacred Places.
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Dr. Deena Grant Contributes Chapter to Book on Baal
October 2, 2020
Deena Grant, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, has contributed a chapter to Mighty Baal: Essays in Honor of Mark S. Smith, the first edited collection devoted to the study of the ancient Near Eastern god Baal.
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President Joel N. Lohr Publishes Article on 'Textuality and Protestant Bias in U.S. Education'
September 30, 2020
President Joel N. Lohr’s article “Sitting Alone with a Text: Textuality and the Protestant Bias in United States Education” has been published by Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Context.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Council Launched
September 25, 2020
Hartford Seminary’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Council, established this summer after President Joel N. Lohr called on the Seminary’s leadership to respond to the national reckoning around racial justice, had its first meeting on Sept. 17.
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Phoebe Milliken Named Faculty Associate in International Peacebuilding
September 24, 2020
Phoebe Milliken, Coordinator of the International Peacemaking Program, has been promoted to Faculty Associate in International Peacebuilding and Director of the International Peacemaking Program.
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Call for Papers for 2021 Luce-Hartford Conference
September 22, 2020
An abstract of 500 words is due November 1, 2020. Papers of selected participants are due February 15, 2021. Selected authors and contributors will be invited to the June 7-9, 2021 Hartford Conference on Christian-Muslim Relations to present their papers. Selected papers will then be published in the 2021 summer edition of The Muslim World.