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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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Seminary Participates in Shinnyo-en Lantern Floating Ceremony in Hawaii
July 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 2013
July 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 Course
July 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.