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In Their Own Voices pra xis News from Hartford Seminary • August 2008 • Vol. XX • No. 2 “Even as my faith “ Initially, I came in Christianity because it was close deepened, I felt InTheir and it afforded me a desire to help an opportunity to disperse some of Own try out what I had the ignorance and Voices wanted to do since hostility toward high school. In short Islam that I had order, it became the witnessed... I only place I wanted to be.” never imagined that I would find Jim Johnson a seminary that Master of Arts actually focused on interfaith dialogue, particularly between Christianity and Islam, so my discovery... was a joy “Before I came here, and a surprise.” Lindsey Rebecca my views of other Paris-Lopez Jim Johnson religions were in Lindsey Rebecca Paris-Lopez many aspects biased. Master of Arts In particular, my view of Christianity was mostly negative “Our world and our and that Christians lives are filled with were in some rich diversity, which sense culpable. God continues to By interacting create moment with students after moment. Brianna Johnston Mirza Hadzirusevic and Christian Interfaith dialogue professors, however, helps us to explore my perception and to appreciate of Christianity the diverse creation as a religion and that is life and in Christians changed turn helps us to Four Students Reflect significantly.” help others to do on Their Experiences the same.” Mirza Hadzirusevic at Hartford Seminary Master of Arts Brianna Johnston Graduate Certificate Complete stories begin on page 3 Hartford Seminary • Pr a x i s 1 News&Notes Looking for Lost Alumni/ae Hartford Seminary’s Institutional Advancement Office, which oversees Alumni/ae Relations, is making a diligent effort to locate hundreds of Hartford Seminary alumni/ae we have lost touch with. We are hoping to get folks back on our mailing list so we can keep them informed about the many wonderful programs and events that are taking place at the Seminary, including the G upcoming week-long celebration of our 175th Anniversary, during the o l d e n b e r week of October 18 to 26. G In recent months we have sent t u a r t postcards to last known addresses, s asking the current residents for assistance. In many cases we have learned that those addresses were correct, but for unknown reasons mail was returned to us by the Post A REQUEST Office. Currently we are doing internet searches in an attempt to find Please Send Us alumni/ae. But our most successful tool has been the lost alumni/ae Your Email Address list on the Seminary’s website at http://www.hartsem.edu/alumni/ Stay informed on address for many of lostalumslist.htm. a timely basis by you, our alumni/ae sharing your email and friends. If you have access to the internet, address with us. please take a look at the list and let Please send your us know if you are in touch with Here at Hartford email to me at anyone listed. Or let them know Seminary, we want to [email protected] their name is there. communicate better or call me at (860) with you. 509-9519. Since April 1 we have reconnected with 39 alumni/ae who are thrilled We would like to By the way, Hartford to be back in touch. We have also, send out updates on Seminary has a strict sadly, been notified that 24 of the what is happening at privacy policy. We alumni/ae we had listed have passed Hartford Seminary as do not share or sell away, some many years ago. well as information e-mail addresses to a on our events and third party. In both cases, we have received courses by email wonderful stories from many and we to those people for Thank you. thank all of you who have taken the whom we have email David S. Barrett time to write. We look forward to addresses. Director of Public reconnecting with many more. and Institutional Right now we do Affairs If you have any questions, please not have any email send email to [email protected] Editor, Praxis or call Mary Kalencik, associate director, at (860) 509-9520. Editor: David Barrett Reprint and copy information: you plan to reprint or photocopy like more information about Praxis Phone: 860/509-9519 Articles may be reprinted if full any part of Praxis. Letters to the or about Hartford Seminary, please Fax: 860/509-9509 credit is given to Hartford Seminary editor are welcomed. If you would contact David Barrett at Hartford E-mail Address: [email protected] and the author, if bylined in Praxis. like additional copies of this issue of Seminary, 77 Sherman Street, Designer: James Baker For our records, please inform us if Praxis or back issues or if you would Hartford, CT 06105. 2 Hartford Seminary • Pr a x i s InOwnTheir WLI, the Seminary’s and students outside the How did interaction Voices reputation and its course classroom. with persons of other flexibility made Hartford faiths influence you in Seminary a clear choice. What did you find most your own faith? In your fulfilling spiritually daily life and how you Was the commute to or in terms of service live it? Hartford difficult or to others? Hartford something you got used Seminary has given There was once a time to? I live 10 minutes me the experience to when I wanted to away, I am embarrassed explore a new found become an ambassador to say. relationship with God. in a career in foreign What was just a new service. I’ve come to What did you find is found relationship with appreciate from my the most important God has evolved into a experiences at Hartford influence on your calling. Seminary and a recent experience at Hartford trip to India sponsored Seminary? All my Did you form by the Seminary that Brianna Johnston professors have friendships that will we are ambassadors Graduate Certificate encouraged the respect last beyond graduation? to our faith and our of and the willingness I believe so, time will experiences with which What drew you to to consider diverse tell, but my sense is God has blessed us. Hartford Seminary? spiritual and theological that I will always have Importantly, we are not Several ministers perspectives. a connection with the ambassadors in the stuffy highly recommended Seminary, so I hate to sense of fancy dinners to me Miriam Therese Please let us know think of a moment when and formal summits, but Winter’s Women’s about a specific I ‘graduate’ and I like in moments of everyday Leadership Institute. enriching moment, in to think that existing encounters with your own words, that and new friendships will people on the streets, How did you learn you had during your continue to form. in churches, in stores, about the Seminary? studies at Hartford etc. by acts of kindness, Several ministers Seminary. Actually, the Hartford Seminary dignity and respect. suggested that I look sum of many moments focuses on interfaith in discussion circles dialogue. How How do you expect to at Hartford Seminary use your degree from as a way to explore in which I witnessed important is this spirituality take many emphasis to your Hartford Seminary? my spirituality. I was This month I will considering a ‘vocation’ forms has reshaped my decision to study here? appreciation for the This is an extremely be applying to the in counseling, but at the cooperative Master of same time I was being positive power of the important aspect of spirit that flows in acts my faith studies. Our Divinity program at pulled by a new found Hartford Seminary and spirituality. A dear of kindness, dignity and world and our lives respect. Routine shared are filled with rich will be considering both friend, a United Church Yale Divinity School of Christ minister, experiences, transformed diversity, which God into events of unspoken continues to create and Andover Newton suggested that I explore Theological School. the two together as a prayer, leave lasting moment after moment. Pastoral Counselor. imprints. Faith is just as dynamic. Interfaith dialogue helps Brianna Johnston lives Why did you choose What disappointed us to explore and to in Bloomfield, CT. She to attend this seminary you? I would like to see appreciate the diverse is a retired actuary. She rather than another? greater opportunities to creation that is life and received her Graduate The aforementioned share experiences and in turn helps us to help Certificate in Spirituality. recommendations, interact with professors others to do the same. one of the few schools Was the commute to of other religions were in North America that Hartford difficult or in many aspects biased. primarily focuses on something you got used In particular, my view interfaith dialogue. The to? of Christianity was main reason that I came I commuted from New mostly negative and to Hartford Seminary Jersey. In the beginning that Christians were in was the interfaith it was a little difficult; some sense culpable. relations between however, after a while I By interacting with various religious got used to it. students and Christian denominations. Other professors, however, than my own Muslim What did you find is my perception of faith, I did not know the most important Christianity as a religion much about other faiths influence on your and Christians changed and I wanted to learn experience at Hartford significantly. Studying more about them. Seminary? Christian theology Mirza Hadzirusevic One of the most and history at Hartford Master of Arts How did you learn important influences Seminary, I have come about the Seminary? on my experience has to appreciate and What drew you to I learned about Hartford been my perception of understand Christianity Hartford Seminary? Seminary on the the other faiths.
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