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Aspen Institute Webinar Features Seminary President Heidi Hadsell
September 10, 2013
Hartford Seminary President Heidi Hadsellwas a featured speaker in a Sept. 18 webinar about the Aspen Institute’s Principled Pluralism report and the Inclusive America project. Religions for Peace USA hosted the webinar with the Aspen Institute. It also featured Joseph DeMott (Aspen Institute) and Paul Raushenbush (Huffington Post).
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Seminary Makes Impressive Showing at ISNA
September 5, 2013
Hartford Seminary was well represented at the 50th annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America in Washington, DC, over Labor Day weekend. Sohaib Sultan, ’10, now Muslim Chaplain at Princeton University, was Program Committee co-chair for the convention, which drew thousands to the annual offering of lectures on religious, social and spiritual topics, opportunities for networking, and the extensive bazaar of booths populated by educational institutions, social organizations, and merchants.
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Convocation: We Have a Dream
September 5, 2013
Hartford Seminary kicked off the 2013-14 academic year with a Convocation centering on the theme “We Have a Dream.” In addition to a welcome from Academic Dean Uriah Kim and an opening prayer from Prof. Shanell Smith, Prof. Miriam Therese Winter asked those gathered to write down a dream on a piece of paper. The dreams were collected in a basket and shared.
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Request for Public Comment
September 4, 2013
Hartford Seminary will undergo a comprehensive evaluation visit from Oct. 27-30, 2013, by a team representing the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
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Partnership Between Connecticut and Nigerian Church Communities Thrives
August 26, 2013
The last ten years have been difficult for the Churches of the Anglican Communion. As we all know too well, the fabric of our international family has been torn by controversial decisions and remains fragile today. Yet despite our many challenges and problems, we Anglicans share a common theological and historical tradition and a bond of mutual affection.
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Fellowship Offers Powerful Experience for Recent Seminary Grad
August 23, 2013
When recent Hartford Seminary graduate Adeel Zeb walked into Auschwitz this summer, he was not prepared for the powerful emotional impact it would have on him.
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Yehezkel Landau Is First Jewish Core Faculty Member
August 5, 2013
For the first time, Hartford Seminary has a Jewish core faculty member. Yehezkel Landau, who has been a full-time faculty associate since 2002, was added to core faculty in July as an Associate Professor of Interfaith Relations and now occupies the new Abrahamic Partnerships Chair. Several donors, especially Neil and Trudie Prior, funded the endowed chair.
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New Director of Communications Named
July 30, 2013
Susan Schoenberger, a West Hartford editor and writer, has been named Director of Communications at Hartford Seminary. Prior to starting at the seminary in July, Susan was an associate regional editor for Patch.com, where she supervised 12 hyperlocal websites in the AOL-owned Patch network. The sites included West Hartford Patch and sites across the Farmington Valley, among others.
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