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Partnership Between Connecticut and Nigerian Church Communities ThrivesAugust 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 GradAugust 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 MemberAugust 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 NamedJuly 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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Seminary Participates in Shinnyo-en Lantern Floating Ceremony in HawaiiJuly 17, 2013
The Shinnyo-en Foundation, which has supported Hartford Seminary’s Religious Diversity Leadership Workshop for the past two years, hosted faith leaders from across the country at the 15th Annual Shinnyo-en Lantern Floating Ceremony on May 27th in Honolulu, Hawaii. The gathering’s purpose was to deepen connections between the organizations that Shinnyo-en supports by experiencing the Lantern Floating and reflecting together as an interfaith community .
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Building Abrahamic Partnerships Program June 2013July 5, 2013
Central to Hartford Seminary’s work in interfaith Abrahamic dialogue and understanding is its Building Abrahamic Partnerships (BAP) program. Based on its strengths as an interfaith, dialogical school of practical theology, Hartford Seminary designed this program, directed by Professor Yehezkel Landau, Associate Professor of Interfaith Relations and holder of the Abrahamic Partnerships Chair, to be a resource for Jews, Christians and Muslims, who seek a solid foundation in interfaith ministry.
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Hartford Seminary Offers New Intensive Arabic Language CourseJuly 4, 2013
Engaging the Qur'an Through the Arabic Language is a new course for Hartford Seminary, offered for the first time this summer. This unique, three-week long intensive Arabic language course provides students with the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the Qur'an through intensive Arabic language study.
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International Conference in Belgrade Features Dr. AyoubJuly 2, 2013
The 2013 International Gathering of the Ecclesiological Investigations Network was held in the city of Belgrade, Serbia from June 19-22. At this conference entitled “Religion, Authority and the State: From Constantine to the Secular and Beyond", Hartford Seminary Professor Dr. Mahmoud Ayoub gave a keynote lecture, “The Christian Church and the Muslim Ummah: From Religious Persecution to Religious Authority.”
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President Hadsell Delivers Keynote at International Abrahamic ForumJuly 1, 2013
Hartford Seminary President Dr. Heidi Hadsell delivered a keynote address on 'Christian Teachings of Contempt' and participated in the meeting of the International Abrahamic Forum of the International Conference of Christians and Jews.
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