General HIU News, Student News
Help Us Train Another Peacemaker Through Our #GivingTuesday Campaign
November 20, 2015
Hartford Seminary has launched a #GivingTuesday campaign to raise scholarship money for the International Peacemaking Program. The campaign, which asks donors to contribute $50 each toward a peacemaking scholarship, will culminate on Dec. 1 (the Tuesday after Thanksgiving).
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President Hadsell Involved in Talks on 'Religion, Peace and Violence' in Geneva
November 20, 2015
President Heidi Hadsell was in Geneva in the week immediately following the terror attacks in Paris on Nov. 13. She was part of an interfaith meeting of Shia Muslims from the Islamic Republic of Iran associated with the Centre for Interreligious Dialogue (CID) and Christians involved in the World Council of Churches (WCC). The meeting was the continuation of a dialogue between the WCC and the CID that began in 1995.
Campus Events
University and College Chaplains Discuss Their Vital Ministry
November 18, 2015
The questions that college and university chaplains address are no less daunting than “What gives life meaning?” And according to the Rev. Paul Raushenbush, who gave the opening address at a Nov. 17, 2015, regional conference at Hartford Seminary, that particular question must be addressed head-on.
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New Data Released at Changing Religious Landscape Conference
November 18, 2015
David Roozen has been in the business of studying congregations in the United States for 40-plus years, and for all that time, he said, he has been looking for a pause or a slowdown in the decline of old line (once main line) denominations.
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Prof. Scott Thumma Talks Churches and Megachurches in Korea
November 9, 2015
Prof. Scott Thumma has just returned from two weeks in Korea, the first with Dr. Jaecheon Lee, director of the Doctor of Ministry and the research agency of the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea, one of the few progressive denominations there.
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Prof. Najib Awad Interviewed on TV about Syrian Refugees
November 2, 2015
Prof. Najib Awad was featured on the Stan Simpson Show on Fox 61 on Saturday, Oct. 31. The subject of the interview was the plight of the Syrian refugees, and how Connecticut and America in general can respond to the crisis.
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New Faculty Bring Fresh Perspectives to Doctor of Ministry Program
October 20, 2015
Two new faculty members have joined Hartford Seminary’s Doctor of Ministry program, bringing new energy and perspectives to the degree directed by Prof. Scott Thumma.
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Faculty in the News - October 2015
October 20, 2015
On October 29-30, Prof. Yahya Michot was in Paris taking part in the International Conference “With or Without the Brothers: Domestic, Regional, and International Trends in Islamism (2013-2015)” organized by WAFAW – CERI/Sciences Po. He delivered a paper titled “’Clockwork Islam’: Ibn Taymiyya in the Islamic State Propaganda Digital Journal ‘Dabiq’”.
Campus Events
Seminary Hosts Plowshares Institute's Final Celebration
October 19, 2015
After more than 30 years of working in countries around the world, Plowshares Institute said its final goodbyes on Friday, Oct. 15, 2015, at a celebratory dinner held at Hartford Seminary.
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Hartford Seminary Student Coordinates Interfaith Panel at Fairfield University
October 14, 2015
Hartford Seminary student Allison Taylor, as part of the New Faces of Ministry project, is coordinating an interfaith panel involving a number of Hartford Seminary faculty and students at Fairfield University on Oct. 22
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