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News from Hartford Seminary • December 2012 • Vol. XXIV • No. 3

Kim Named New Chair in Abrahamic Academic Dean Partnerships Established Seminary’s national prominence in multifaith education enhanced

The Rev. Dr. Uriah Kim, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible, has been appointed to a three-year term as Academic Dean of Hartford Seminary.

Seminary President Heidi Hadsell, who made the appointment, praised Kim for the dedication, skill and enthusiasm that he has brought to the position since he became interim Left to right: Trudie Prior, Board Chair Van McMurtry, Seminary President Heidi Hadsell and Neil Prior dean in August. The new appointment is retroactive to July 1. artford Seminary is trustee. She serves on the At a reception in November, has established an Board of Trustees of Hartford Hadsell announced that the “Uriah is an excellent scholar endowed faculty chair Seminary. first occupant of the chair who has shown great skill in Abrahamic in developing new, fresh Other significant donations in Abrahamic Partnerships HPartnerships that will further will be Professor Yehezkel interpretations of Hebrew came from the estate of The enhance the Seminary’s national Bible texts and also an Revs. Jane and William Landau, Faculty Associate in prominence in multifaith excellent colleague who Inderstrodt, Lynn and John Interfaith Relations. In 2002, education. Hartford Seminary hired has worked collaboratively Fulkerson, and an anonymous with faculty and staff at the The focus of the chair will be gift made by a member of the Landau, an Israeli-American citizen, interfaith educator, Seminary on a variety of on the history and the practice Seminary Board of Trustees. initiatives,” Hadsell said. of Jewish-Christian-Muslim and religious peace activist Heidi Hadsell, Hartford relations. to augment its program in Seminary President, said, “I Abrahamic religions. “It is a great honor and joy The lead gift for the chair, of am profoundly appreciative to serve the faculty, staff $500,000, was made by the of the generosity of Neil and “Yehezkel has committed and students of Hartford Prior Family Foundation. Trudie Prior and the other a lifetime to building such Seminary as Academic Dean. partnerships and I know This is a special place. Not Cornelius B. Prior, Jr., chairman donors for their commitment to interfaith education. We he will continue to do that only because of Hartford of Atlantic Tele-Network Inc., faithfully and creatively, now Seminary’s long history headquartered in Beverly, live in troubling times, and it is so important that Hartford from this distinguished chair,” of innovative and daring MA, is the grantor of the Prior Hadsell told the audience. scholarship and teaching and Family Foundation. Trudie J. Seminary continue its work in Abrahamic dialogue and The Seminary also presented its commitment to preparing Prior, president and general religious leaders in today’s manager of Coral World understanding. These gifts will a panel discussion reflecting help make this possible.” continued on page 7 Ocean Park in St. Thomas, V.I., continued on page 2

Study Conference Planned to Commemorate Duncan Black Macdonald : Page 9 Seminary Alumnus Honored New Staff for Peacemaking Work

Melissa O’Brien is the new Student Services Coordinator, working with Uriah Kim, Academic Dean. Prior to joining Hartford Seminary, Melissa worked at the as a career counselor and adjunct professor. Prior to that, she worked part-time at Capital Community College in the English as Second Language Department as a coordinator of the Language Lab and ESL instructor. She primarily has worked in educational settings but also developed her career in the Hartford Development in Higher insurance industry upon Education. Melissa lives relocating to with her spouse and their from Michigan. Melissa two children in Granby, obtained her Master of CT, where she enjoys Arts in Counseling with cooking, hiking and an emphasis on Student contemplating her next creative project.

Heidi Hadsell and Jackie Manputty Kim Named Academic Dean continued from page one The Tanenbaum Center to use social media for Interreligious to combat religious multi-faith and pluralistic Ph.D. from the Graduate Understanding in conflict between world, but also because of Theological Union in New York City has Christians and Muslims its people who genuinely Berkeley, CA, in 2004. awarded the Rev. Jacky in Indonesia. welcome and are interested Manuputty, a Master of in knowing and forming Previously he was Assistant Arts and International “If provocateurs relationship with the Professor of Religious Peacemaking could use the new others,” Kim said. Studies at Canisius College Program graduate technology to incite in Buffalo, NY and from Indonesia, its violence, we could “I am happy and proud Visiting Professor at Yonsei Peacemakers in Action use it to undermine to be a member of the University, Seoul, South award to recognize his their incitement,” Hartford Seminary Korea, and Pacific School peacemaking efforts. says Manuputty, a leadership that sincerely of Religion, Berkeley, CA. Protestant minister. desires to know the truth, Seminary President to love God, and to serve Kim has published Heidi Hadsell attended Manuputty and others others,” he said. “Decolonizing Josiah: the award ceremony and dispatch volunteers Toward a Postcolonial evening of conversation to any location in a Kim also directs the Reading of the in October. She is matter of minutes to Seminary’s Cooperative Deuteronomistic History” pictured above with check the credibility of Master of Divinity program. and “Identity and Loyalty Manuputty. disturbing claims. They He was Senior Editor of in the David Story.” then send the facts to Reviews in Religion and Forthcoming are “The While in New York, the leadership, who Theology, a quarterly Politics of Othering in the Manuputty also double check the details publication, for four years. Book of Judges” and “1 & 2 participated in two with other witnesses Chronicles.” public events at New and craft messages to Kim earned a Bachelor of York University and at set the record straight Arts degree in philosophy He is a member of the Church Center for the before preparations for at New York University, a American Academy of United Nations. revenge attacks can pick Master of Divinity degree Religion, the Society of up steam. at Princeton Theological Biblical Literature, and the Manuputty helped form Seminary and a Master of Asian Pacific Americans Peace Provocateurs Theology degree at Emory and Religion Research University. He received his Initiative.

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2 Hartford Seminary • Praxis Convocation Hartford Seminary held Convocation 2012 on Thursday, September 6 to celebrate the start of its fall semester. Photos, clockwise from right: Attending the service are faculty, students, staff and trustees. President Heidi Hadsell talks with students Matthew Ridout and Mustafa Boz. Ursula Sieg, a research scholar at the Seminary, talks with Junaid Sulahry, a new student.

Professor Najib Awad, Associate Professor of Christian Theology, has written “And Freedom Became a Public Square: Political, Sociological and Religious Overviews on the Arab Christians and the Arabic Faculty Books Spring.” In his book description, Awad writes that “From an Arab Christian perspective, this book introduces some of the substantial components and the pivotal ramifications of the latest revolutions in the Arab World, known as ‘the Arabic Spring.’ It offers a fresh, timely, and intellectual reading of the promising ‘Spring’ in Syria and in the rest of the ‘born-again’ Arab world.” Faculty Associate Lucinda Mosher has completed a new book, “Toward Our Mutual Flourishing: The Episcopal Church, Interreligious Relations, and Theologies of Religious Manyness.” In this book, Mosher tells the story of The Episcopal Church’s development of an official rationale for its ongoing engagement with religious diversity. At once a work of historical, moral, and practical theology, this volume contextualizes and explains what one church teaches about how religious difference may be interpreted in Christian terms.

Hartford Seminary • Praxis 3 Library, Commemorative Courtyard Projects Completed

wide variety of materials of relevance to not only religious professionals, but those wanting to understand the basics of their own and other religions.

Since 2001 the library has seen a significant increase in use by non-Seminary visitors, and offers borrowing privileges to the public.

The library is directed by the Rev. Dr. Steven Blackburn, who also is Faculty Associate in Semitic Scriptures. “The library staff and I are very pleased that this expansion Left to right, Jonathan B. Lee, Seminary Director of Institutional Advancement, Seminary project is completed,” President Heidi Hadsell, and Alex Vance of the H.A. Vance Foundation Blackburn said. “We have so many volumes that we Hartford Seminary has to, and make use of, the H.A. Vance Foundation want to make available to completed two major Library’s resources.” for its generosity and our students and the public projects to enhance library support. We appreciate and now we can add these services to students and the “The goal of the shelving their understanding of the to the accessible collections public and to honor alumni project was not just to importance of our mission in the library.” and friends of the Seminary optimize the use of limited and the library’s place in a commemorative space, but to maximize the in serving that mission,” Most of the newly courtyard. accessibility of practical Hadsell said. accessible volumes will information available to all be in the area of Islamic At a reception in October, our constituencies,” Hadsell Hartford Seminary studies, a portion in Arabic, Seminary President Heidi said. has evolved to become Blackburn said. Hadsell thanked the H.A. a graduate school for Vance Foundation as the The Vance Foundation leadership development Systematics of primary donor, the Ahearn awarded a $25,000 grant in the area of interfaith Westborough, MA, Family Foundation and to supplement funds raised dialogue and relations. installed the mobile other donors for their by the Seminary. “I would The library reflects this shelving. support of a $75,000 like to especially thank the evolution, containing a Continued on next page library shelving project.

The Library has added nine mobile shelving units, increasing the accessible collection by 30 percent; space for a total of 21,000 volumes now is available for the first time. The need for the shelving was acute because there are current library holdings which could not be entered into circulation because of space limitations, and new acquisitions were on hold for the same reason.

“The Seminary’s library is at the heart of the school’s mission to increase understanding among all people,” Hadsell said. “Students, faculty, religious leaders, journalists, researchers and the general President Heidi Hadsell with Beth Miller, left, and Mary Clare Mooney, right, of the Ahearn public all have access Family Foundation

4 Hartford Seminary • Praxis Continued from previous time I enter the Seminary,” page Hadsell said. “Thank you to the 16 individuals Commemorative and families who gave so Courtyard generously to make the This summer, Hartford courtyard possible.” Seminary installed a new front courtyard. As part of Donors of the this project, through the commemorative pavers generosity of 16 donors, the are: the late Robbins W. Seminary installed special Barstow of Wethersfield, pavers in the central square. James F. Brennan of East Hampton, Janet Bristow These pavers commemorate of Farmington, M. Dosia Seminary alumni/ae, Carlson of Phoenix, AZ, family, friends, teachers and Lynn and John Fulkerson of mentors. Litchfield, Richard Hughes of West Hartford, Dwight One remembers a beloved L. Kintner of Los Gatos, pastor. Another recognizes CA, Lenell Kittlitz of the Women’s Leadership Rocky Hill, Robert C. and Seminary Professor Scott Thumma, right, who serves on the Institute. A third honors the Fidelia Lane and family of Board of Trustees, talks with Lewis Robinson of Hartford. donors’ parents. Another Cromwell, Elizabeth Miel of quotes Rainer Rilke: “God Middletown, Jo B. Mitchell speaks / To each of us as / of Seattle, WA, Mary Oliver He makes us / Then walks of Hampton, Margaret with us / Silently out / Of and Robert Patricelli of Individuals who wish to the night.” Simsbury, Evelyn and Evans purchase a commemorative Sealand of Simsbury, the paver should contact “This commemorative late Gunnar Wikstrom Jonathan B. Lee, Director of courtyard reminds me of Jr. of Chaska, MN, and Institutional Advancement the outstanding spirit of our Joyce Hatton Yarrow of at Hartford Seminary, jlee@ alumni and friends, each Middletown, CT. hartsem.edu.

Confirmation Classes Attend Interfaith Event Hartford Seminary the Abrahamic tradition,” presented a special said the Rev. Dr. Jonathan interfaith afternoon of B. Lee, Director of exploration and discovery Institutional Advancement to confirmation classes at the Seminary. Lee from 10 United Church organized and moderated of Christ and Episcopal the event. churches in October. “Hartford Seminary, a Close to 100 students school that specializes attended to learn about in interfaith dialogue, Islam through the stories of strives to reach out to Seminary students and to faith communities with Students and advisors listen to the student presentations. get a better understanding programs that expand of the religion through understanding and • Jaye Starr, who spoke on by the five presenters and conversation with the awareness.” Lee said. the aspects of Islam that are Liza Arulampalam, who students, who are in attractive to her assists Lee in coordination the Islamic Studies and Presenting during the of the International the Islamic Chaplaincy afternoon program were: • Morteza Rezazadeh, Peacemaking Program at programs at the Seminary. who spoke about his home the Seminary. Rezazadeh • Sami Shamma, who country of Iran and the is a student in the program “Faithful Christian offered an introduction to difference between Shi’a this year. discipleship today will be Islam and Sunni Islam lived out in communities At the conclusion of in which there are many • Asmaou Diallo who The afternoon included the event, the students other faith traditions. spoke on her roots in presentation of a video enjoyed a meal of stuffed This afternoon is an Guinea and her wearing the A Land Called Paradise, grape leaves, pizza and opportunity for young hijab followed by six discussion baklava. The dialogue with people and their advisors groups to reflect on the the Seminary students • Junaid Sulahry, who to meet, learn about, and video. The groups were led continued during the meal. be in conversation with spoke on the impact of our Muslim partners in 9-11 on him

Hartford Seminary • Praxis 5 Students from Iran, India in Peacemaking Program

Morteza Rezazadeh says Morteza Rezazadeh that “one of the most Morteza has Bachelor rewarding religious of Arts degrees from the activities is to use faith as Islamic Seminary of Qom a tool for peacemaking and the Imam Khomeini in society.” He expects Educational and Research that a year of studying Institute and a Master peace-building at Hartford of Arts degree from the Seminary will help him University of Religions and “spread the message of love Denominations in Iran. and peace in the world” when he returns to Iran. He is Cultural Deputy of the International Institute Zulunungsang Lemtur for Islamic Studies (IIIS) Zulu Lemtur and Morteza Rezazadeh says that “learning from in Qom, Iran. In this and building on positive position, Morteza arranges Interreligious Dialogue and including psychological traditions and values of partnerships for students to the Armenian Orthodox and technical aspects, in different faiths, we may spend time at institutions Church, Catholicosate of peacemaking, techniques draw strength, to overcome in other countries, trains Cilicia, in Tehran in May. to apply the skills, and the apathy, selfishness and the students for their resources from different arrogance which have international experiences, Morteza also has traveled traditions.” enfeebled and divided and promotes the work of to Tanzania to offer classes our communities and the institute. about Islamic ethics, “Some of the skills that undermined the credibility beliefs and spirituality, and I imagine I will learn at of our religions.” He He said that he thinks “the conducted workshops in Hartford Seminary and expects to return to India future of the world will be England about social ethics. use on my return to my with new tools for dialogue shaped by the Abrahamic He had a radio program on country are: Dialogue and greater self-awareness. religions and, therefore, we “Spirituality in the Modern tools and meeting need a proper understanding World.” formats that support Morteza and Zulu, as of and cooperation with creative conversations, the he is known, are the each other to make this When he returns to importance of asking good International Peacemaking future as bright and peaceful Iran, Morteza expects to questions; and the elements Program students at as possible. “ continue working at the of good dialogue - listening, Hartford Seminary for International Institute respecting, voicing and 2012-2013. Morteza is “Dialogue and proper for Islamic Studies. It can suspending judgment,” Zulu enrolled in the Graduate relations are in need of two have a major impact, he said. Certificate in Islamic basic things: a good level of said, through its efforts to Studies and Christian- knowledge about the other promote an understanding He also expects to Muslim Relations, Zulu is party and also competence of the true nature of Islam learn how to create safe in the Graduate Certificate and skills in dialogue,” he and the desire for peaceful environments for difficult in Interfaith Dialogue. said. relations. conversations; deal with difference, disagreement Hartford Seminary He came to Hartford Zulu Lemtur and tension; maximize initiated the International Seminary, which has a focus Zulu, who is from involvement; and create Peacemaking Program on dialogue among the Nagaland in India, has inclusive space. (IPP) in 2004, recognizing Abrahamic religions, because degrees from several the need for skilled it is important “to have a colleges in India: a Bachelor “Each person should learn peacemakers in countries first-hand experience of of Arts degree from Fazl to deal with others from a where there is interreligious living in a different religious Ali College, a Bachelor position of mutual trust, conflict. Students in environment.” of Divinity from Eastern based on an expectation the program spend an Theological College, and a that others come to the academic year honing their “Indeed,” he said, “this Master of Arts from United dialogue in a spirit of interfaith dialogue and would be a practical example Theological College. He has honesty and sincerity,” Zulu leadership skills, as well of practicing cooperation been a part-time lecturer at said. as enhancing their public and social engagement. In Clark Theological College engagement and public my opinion learning how in his home province When he returns to India, speaking skills. In addition to relate to people is very of Nagaland and was Zulu expects to work to their formal studies, important in interreligious Headmaster at Poakkoam in a part of the country students are hosted by a understanding.” English School for two with religious tension, local faith community years. determined by his church. where they experience Prior to coming to Hartford, American religious culture Morteza participated in Zulu said he decided to During their time in firsthand. an International Catholic- study at the Seminary Hartford, the two Muslim interfaith because of its commitment students will be part of the Students receive a conference in Rome in 2011; to allow all faiths to study community at two local scholarship covering the fifth round of dialogue together peacefully. He faith communities – Zulu at tuition, books, travel and between Iranian Muslims also praised the quality of Rocky Hill Congregational housing. After a year, the and Filipino Catholics, the faculty, the housing on Church in Rocky Hill, CT, students return home to held in Qom in April; and a campus, and the library. and Morteza at the Jafaria put their new skills and conference on ethical values Association of Connecticut knowledge into practice. between the Center for As an IPP student, he said, in Middlefield. “I want to learn skills,

6 Hartford Seminary • Praxis New Chair in Abrahamic Partnerships Hartford Seminary’s and currently serves as a pioneering approach to member of its President’s continued from page 1 theological education. The Advisory Council. Seminary offers the only on how the Abrahamic interfaith ever since my first His law degree came from accredited program to Partnerships Chair will visit to Israel in 1992. In Harvard Law School, educate Muslim chaplains support both academic standing on holy ground followed by graduate work and has developed plans to preparation for religious in Israel -- holy ground at the University of Säo offer certificates for imams leadership and the practice for Jews, Christians and Paulo Law School as a and Muslim community of that leadership. Muslims -- I struggled Fulbright Scholar. greatly with why we can’t leaders and for chaplains In her remarks opening share that holy ground serving in multifaith Trudie Prior practiced the conversation, Hadsell in peace. I continue to contexts. law in Washington, said, “Not only those D.C., before becoming struggle with that as I The creation of the chair, preparing for religious president of Coral World know my Jewish and and the gift of the Priors, leadership, but faithful Ocean Park. She is a Muslim sisters and brothers has been recognized by the people in general, need former President of the struggle. In this place of Clinton Global Initiative. the kind of engagement Hebrew Congregation of Hartford Seminary we can The mission of the William that is embodied in the St. Thomas and currently safely struggle together,” J. Clinton Foundation, and work we expect this faculty serves as a member of the Spiers said. the goal of the initiative, position to carry out, and Board. that such a position is now The establishment of the is to increase the benefits permanently endowed Abrahamic Partnerships and reduce the burdens of About Building means that this Seminary’s Chair is a clear sign of the global interdependence; Abrahamic Partnerships commitment to Abrahamic Seminary’s commitment to to make a world of more Hartford Seminary partnerships will be steady, Christian-Muslim-Jewish partners and fewer has offered Building and consistent, and visible leadership formation at enemies; and to give more Abrahamic Partnerships from now on.” the heart of the school’s people the tools they need 14 times over the past mission. to build a better future. eight years. Participants Speaking at the panel One of the areas of focus discussion were Landau, Central to the Seminary’s learn about the tenets is mitigating religious and and practices of the three Najib Awad, Associate work in Abrahamic ethnic conflict. Professor of Christian Partnerships is its Building faiths, study texts from Theology, and Mahmoud Abrahamic Partnerships About Cornelius and their respective scriptures Ayoub, Faculty Associate (BAP) program. Building Trudie Prior together, attend worship at a mosque, synagogue, in Islam and Christian- on its strengths as an Cornelius Prior practiced and church, and acquire Muslim Relations. interfaith, dialogical school law and investment of practical theology, pastoral skills useful in Offering responses were banking in New York Hartford Seminary interfaith ministry. Hartford Seminary City before co-founding designed this program, led alumnus and Trustee Atlantic Tele-Network Combining the academic by Landau, to be a resource Salahuddin Muhammad, (ATN) in 1987. He is and the experiential, the for Jews, Christians, and a Doctor of Ministry the chairman of ATN, a course includes ample Muslims who seek a solid graduate, recipient of public telecommunications time for socializing over foundation in interfaith the Seminary’s Islamic industry holding company meals and during breaks. ministry. It is an eight-day Chaplaincy Certificate and and the chairman of This team-taught program intensive immersion in chaplain; Anne Rapkin, Caribbean – Central is a resource for religious interfaith dialogue and a Master of Arts student; American Action leaders who are grounded understanding, meeting and Linda Spiers, a Doctor (CCAA), a not-for-profit in their own traditions once a year in June. of Ministry student and organization promoting while open to the faith pastor. BAP and the Abrahamic investment in the orientations of other Partnerships Chair are Caribbean. He graduated communities. “I have had a personal further evidence of from Holy Cross College interest in matters of

will send a strong positive that brought them to the signal to our international Seminary,” he said. constituents that the Seminary values them and is In this position, Browne dedicated to serving them,” will: Uriah Kim, Academic Dean, • Serve as the point person said. for international students and scholars at Hartford New Appointment “We believe this position Seminary will centralize all matters • Manage the Exchange related to international Visitor Program students and scholars, • Coordinate events to Lorraine Browne, allowing services to be enhance the life of Executive Assistant to provided more efficiently international students the Dean, has an added and comprehensively and and scholars at Hartford position of Coordinator of effectively coordinating Seminary International Student and all available resources to • Welcome and orient Scholar Services. assist international students international students and “We hope that having and scholars to achieve scholars to campus Lorraine serve as Hartford successfully the goals Seminary’s first CISSS

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In Memoriam

The Hartford Seminary YMCA and served there 1964-68. Returning to Malaysia. He is survived community has lost for more than 10 years, the United States, he was by a son, daughter, six the following beloved including at the Kodaikanal secretary for the Evangelism grandchildren and two great members. Our thoughts School in Kodaikanal, Reformed Church in grandchildren. and prayers go out to their South India, and then in America until 1973; friends and families. New Delhi. Mrs. Ford died minister of care for Central The Alumni/ae Office at home in Frederick, MD, Reformed Church in Grand recently learned of the death Bishop Kenneth Cragg, on March 5, at the age of 93. Rapids, MI, until 1982, of The Rev. Dr. Robert Professor of Arabic and and Minister to Seniors DeValve, Ph.D. ’73, on Islamics at Hartford Elizabeth Augur Hoskins, there again from 1999 January 17, 2010. Dr. Seminary from 1951 to M.A. ’46, died in New to 2009. With his wife, DeValve taught in Turkey, 1958 and co-editor of The Jersey on June 29, at the age Lucille, Dr. Schroeder was Washington State, and Muslim World journal, of 91. Betsey was the sister active in healing ministry. in Nigeria at the Kagoro died on November 13 of Fidelia Lane, B.D. ’52, She survives him, along Secondary School and Jos in Oxford, England. He and sister-in-law of Robert with three children and six Evangelical Theological was 99. Dr. Cragg was an Lane, B.D. ’52. grandchildren. Seminary. During the Anglican priest and scholar 1970s he was pastor of who commented widely The Rev. Dr. Carl J. Edwin Shields, who Main Street Baptist Church on religious topics for Schroeder, KSM ’57, a studied at the Kennedy in Meriden, CT, then more than fifty years, most fourth generation minister School of Missions in taught math and science for notably Muslim-Christian and missionary, died on 1952, died on April 30, 14 years at Pioneer Valley relations. September 3, in Holland, in Starkville, MS. With Christian High School in MI, at the age of 80. After his wife Edna Mae, East Longmeadow, MA. After attending the Hartford Seminary, Dr. the Shields served as Until his death, Dr. DeValve Kennedy School of Schroeder served in Taiwan Methodist missionaries was Pastor of Missions at Missions in 1955, Edith as presbytery missionary for 35 years in Southeast Trinity Covenant Church G. Ford, her husband, in rural evangelism from Asia. Ed was a principal in Manchester, CT. He was Norman, and their three 1957-62, in Taichung doing and teacher in Rangoon survived by his wife, Jean, daughters went to India work with college students and Kalaw, Burma, and a four sons and extended with the International in 1963-64, and as chaplain teacher and principal in family. at Tunghai University from Sarikei and Sibu, Sarawak,

Alumni/ae Notes

After finishing his studies course in Kenya), ‘Religion, award to recognize his The University of Toronto is in Hartford, Dr. Kamuyu- Conflict and Peacemaking’ peacemaking efforts in Canada’s largest university, wa Kang’ethe, B.D. ’67, and ‘World Religions and his native Indonesia (see with an estimated 5,000 studied anthropology at Worldly Politics’.” related story on p. 2). Muslim students. Michigan State and then Seminary President Heidi returned to Kenya to earn Writing from the United Hadsell attended the Congratulations to The his doctorate from the Kingdom, Tubanur award ceremony in New Rev. Dr. Mark Caruna, University of Nairobi. He Yesilhark Ozkan, M.A. York City. Jacky first came D.Min. ’03, and the then taught at Kenyatta ’08, reports “I am pursuing to Hartford Seminary congregation he serves, University until returning a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies after having received an Tabernacle Baptist Church to the United States in on ‘The Problem of Evil International Peacemaking of Utica, New York, who 1990, and since then has in Islam: The Risale-i Program scholarship. together were recently taught at Michigan State Nur as Case Study.’ In the awarded a 2012 National University, Cardinal Stritch meanwhile, I have married This past October Clergy Renewal Program College in Wisconsin and and have a wonderful little marked the 14th year that sabbatical grant by the Lily Wayne State University baby girl named Zulal. I The Rev. Dr. Patricia Endowment, Inc. in Detroit. Dr. Kamuyu- am teaching occasionally at Nicholas, D.Min. ’08, wa currently serves as a King’s College in London, has served as pastor of the Writing from Billings, chaplain at a juvenile facility ‘Modern Islam,’ ‘Islam: Congregational Church Montana, The Rev. in Michigan. After reading The Basics,’ and ‘Sexuality of New Fairfield, United Kenneth Crouch, who the latest edition of Praxis, and Religious Symbols in Church of Christ, in studied at Hartford he writes, “I could not Islam’.” Connecticut. Seminary during the mid- believe what I was reading. 1960s, reports “recently Hartford has really changed. On October 11, the Amjad Tarsin, M.A. I retired from Mayflower I wish I lived nearer to Tanenbaum Center ’12, was recently named in Hartford—I would like to for Interreligious Canada’s first full-time Billings, and was elected to take some of the courses you Understanding awarded Muslim chaplain at the the Billings City Council. are offering this semester, the Rev. Jacky University of Toronto, I am finding more time e.g., ‘Introduction to Black Manuputty, M.A. ’11, selected from a pool of to pursue my interests in Theology’ (I taught this its Peacemakers in Action more than 20 applicants. theatre.”

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Hartford Seminary Presents Steven Blackburn, Faculty slides. While in the Near Associate in Semitic East, Macdonald became Scriptures, will reflect convinced that missionaries A Study Conference on Macdonald’s life were largely ignorant of to Celebrate the 150th and career. The City of Muslim faith and culture, Hartford has been invited and he committed himself Anniversary of the to send a representative to to their education in Islam. Birth of Duncan Black speak as well. Afterward, the Seminary • Kenneth Garden, Macdonald will host a conference with Assistant Professor of the following speakers: Religion at Tufts University, until his death in 1943. on Macdonald’s studies of He taught Islamic and • Jane Smith, Professor the famous Muslim scholar Biblical studies and was Emeritus at the Seminary Abu Hamid al-Ghazâlî, d. a pioneer in Abrahamic and former Co-Director 1111 dialogue. The Seminary of the Macdonald named its internationally Center, on Macdonald’s • Muhsin al-Musawi, known Macdonald Center life, particularly as a Professor of Arabic for the Study of Islam Christian Islamicist and Literature at Columbia and Christian-Muslim his contribution to the University, on Mcdonald’s Relations after Duncan evolution of missionary studies of the One Thousand Black Macdonald. work and of interfaith and One Nights, commonly In 1912, the dialogue at Hartford known as the Arabian Seminary formed the Seminary Nights interdenominational Kennedy School of • Yehezkel Landau, Faculty The conference also will Hartford Seminary will Missions, with Macdonald Associate in Interfaith feature an exhibit of commemorate the 150th a lead faculty member. Relations at Hartford artifacts from Macdonald’s anniversary of the birth of The school’s program, Seminary, on Macdonald’s archives in the Seminary Duncan Black Macdonald with its focus on training two books examining “The library and a display of on Sunday, April 14, missionaries not to convert Hebrew Philosophical the books that Macdonald 2013, with a special study but rather to converse with Genius” and “The Hebrew wrote. conference at the Seminary. people of other faiths, Literary Genius” The commemoration also quickly thrived. Seminary President Heidi will include a reflection at • Yahya Michot, Hadsell will moderate the his gravesite. Macdonald is buried at the Professor of Islamic conference. Old North Cemetery in Studies and Christian- Macdonald, who was born Hartford. At the suggestion Muslim Relations at the A biography and collection April 9, 1863 in Glasgow, of the Seminary, the City of Seminary and editor of of Macdonald’s important Scotland, came to teach Hartford recently restored The Muslim World journal, writings will be available on at Hartford Theological his gravestone. At the on Macdonald’s 1908 the Seminary website, www. Seminary in 1893 and gravesite commemoration, sabbatical in Egypt, with hartsem.edu. remained in Hartford Seminary Librarian

Professor Michot at Conference in Tunisia On September 4 and 5, at the invitation of the Moulay Hicham Foundation for Social Science Research on North Africa and the Middle East and The Arab Policy Institute, Professor Yahya Michot took part in the international conference organized in Tunis, Tunisia, on “Transition in Tunisia: Towards a New Citizenship.” The conference was attended by the Moroccan prince Moulay Hicham., the leader of the Ennahda party, which is now in power in Tunisia, gave a paper on “Citizenship and Islam.” The discussions addressed the hopes and challenges of the post-revolutionary situation in Tunisia. Michot introduced the participants to the work of Hartford Seminary and The Muslim World. He is pictured here with Rashed Ghannoushi.

Hartford Seminary • Praxis 9 2012 January Intersession & Winter/Spring the tools to apply these concepts to further religious Semester study and/or ministry. Erin Raffety, Adjunct Professor of Arts of Ministry and Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology, Princeton University Hartford Seminary’s January Intersession will run from Monday, January 14 through Saturday, January 19. The Winter/Spring Session Winter/Spring 2013 semester will run from Tuesday, January 22 through Monday, May 13. The Seminary’s courses carry three graduate credits and are open to the Arts of ministry public. Individuals who do not wish to take courses for credit may register to audit them. Many classes fill up Building Participation quickly, so participants are urged to register early to ensure a place in their courses of choice. and Engaging Members NEW Mondays, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., For those enrolled in a three-credit course, the cost beginning January 28 is $1,890. The non-credit audit fee is $575. A special Studies show that a majority of congregations have less audit fee of $385 is available for: persons age 60 and than half their members involved in the ongoing life of the older; persons 55 and older receiving disability income; community. So while they struggle to grow, in essence, graduates of Hartford Seminary degree programs or half of their current human resources are under-utilized. the Certificate of Professional Ministry (Cooperative This course will explore patterns in society, congregational M.Div.); donors of $250 a year or more; Hartford expectations, and leadership norms that contribute to this Seminary Adjunct Faculty; and up to three specially reality. Scott Thumma, Professor of Sociology of Religion designated members of churches that participate in the Theology International Peacemaking Program of the Seminary. There is a limit of one course per academic year to receive Essential Skills in Pastoral the special rate except persons age 60 and older, for whom Counseling and Ministry there is no limit. WORSHIP & SPIRITUALITY Thursdays, from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., To register, please contact the Registrar’s Office at (860) beginning January 24 509-9511, or via email: [email protected]. To see This course will offer pastors, lay ministers and caregivers specific course syllabi prior to the semester or to learn an opportunity to learn basic counseling skills for use in more about Hartford Seminary and its faculty, visit our pastoral settings. Benjamin Watts, Faculty Associate in website, www.hartsem.edu Religion and Community Life and Senior Pastor, Shiloh Baptist Church, New London January intersession Assisting the Process: Adaptive Leadership for Life Transitions in the Context of Spiritual Religious Practitioners NEW NEW Monday, January 14 through Saturday, January 19 from Care and Counseling 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Online, beginning January 22 This seminar will review some of the leading theoretical This course will examine life transitions such as birth, and practical resources on religious leadership with death, marriage, divorce, chronic illness, and so on - an emphasis on the relationship between leadership, but also comparatively more subtle (but often no less organizational innovation and religious renewal. William important) adjustments brought on by things like McKinney, Adjunct Professor in Religion and Society and retirement, children leaving home, moving, relationship past President of Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA endings, and more - in the context of spiritual care and counseling, looking carefully at the ways in which religion Ministry to the Incarcerated: and spirituality can help (and possibly hinder) the negotiation of life transitions. The Reverend Danny Fisher, Responding to the Challenge Adjunct Professor in Chaplaincy and Assistant Professor and Monday, January 14 through Saturday, January 19 from Coordinator of the Buddhist Chaplaincy Program at the 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. University of the West, Rosemead, CA This course will examine the historical, theological and social implications of incarceration in America, with a particular emphasis on ministry to women and men Dialogue in these settings. Charles Williams, Adjunct Professor of Arts of Ministry and Chaplain at Osborn Correctional Suffering, Theodicy, and Institution, Somers, CT Repentance: Interreligious Readings of Job and Jonah Cross Cultural Tuesdays, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Jan. 29, Feb. 26, Family Systems NEW March 19, April 9 and April 30 Monday, January 14 through Saturday, January 19 from Job and Jonah are probably the two most “unorthodox” 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. books in the Hebrew Bible. Their principal characters try In order to prepare students for practical ministry and to make sense of experiences that do not fit the images of academic engagement within a cross-cultural milieu, God presented in the other books. 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10 Hartford Seminary • Praxis Continued from preceding page national offices. Recently there have been many articles and books on the spiritual culture(s) of young people, what they seek, where they look, and what might keep Ethics them within their church’s folds. Adair Lummis, Faculty Follow the Money: Associate in Research The Ethics of Money Scripture Thursdays, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., on Jan. 24, Feb. 14, Feb. 28, March 21, April 4, April 18 and May 2 Matthew, Mark and Luke: This course is an opportunity to think about money. It The Synoptic Gospels will look at money through the lens of philosophers, theologians and ethicists, and also, more concretely, it will Tuesdays, from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., look at money from the perspective of contemporary daily beginning January 22 life and ministry. Heidi Hadsell, President and Professor of This course is an in-depth study of the Jesus of history and Social Ethics the Christ of faith in light of current biblical scholarship with special attention to the theological perspectives of History Matthew, Mark and Luke as reflected in their varying presentations of the Good News in the synoptic Gospels. Abrahamic Faiths in the Shanell T. Smith, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins Middle Ages NEW Wednesdays, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., The Qur’an and Its Place in beginning January 23 This course will explore the interactions of Christianity, Muslim Life and Society Judaism, and Islam in the Middle Ages. Jonathan Elukin, Mondays, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Adjunct Professor of History and Associate Professor of beginning January 28 History, Trinity College, Hartford, CT This course will examine Islamic concepts of the Qur’ān as divine revelation and guidance. Major Qur’ānic themes Death and the Afterlife will be studied in English translation, with reference to classical and contemporary Muslim commentaries. Omer in Judaism and Early Awass, Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian- Christianity NEW Muslim Relations Online, beginning January 22 This course will survey views of death and the afterlife in Theology ancient near eastern traditions, biblical and early Rabbinic Judaism, the New Testament, and early Christianity. Theology and Contextuality: Topics that will be addressed include heaven and hell, eschatology and apocalypticism, the immortality of the A Systematic Survey of soul and the resurrection of the body. Vanessa Avery, the Theology-Context Adjunct Professor of History and Adjunct Instructor in Religious Studies, , Bridgeport, CT Relationship in Western and Non-Western Contexts NEW Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 7:40 p.m. to 9:10 p.m., Religion and society beginning January 22 This course aims to introduce the multifarious Religion and the Arab Spring hermeneutics of the relationship between theological NEW knowledge and cultural contexts in Christian thought. At the end of the course, the students will acquire basic Wednesdays, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., beginning Jan. 23 knowledge about the nature of contextual theological This course investigates the role of religion - Islam in reasoning. Najib Awad, Associate Professor of Christian Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain, and Yemen, and Islam and Theology Christianity in Egypt and Syria - during the “Arab Spring,” the political rebellions of 2011 and 2012. Ralph Coury, Adjunct Professor of Islamic Studies and Professor Emeritus Readings in the Shi’i of History, , Fairfield, CT Tradition Thursdays, from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Tackling the Issue: beginning January 24 Retaining Young People in This seminar will examine the Shi’ite tradition from within. We shall read and discuss primary-source materials Mainline Denominational in English translation including samples of Qur’ān Congregations exegesis (tafsir), hadith tradition, philosophy, mysticism and theology. Mahmoud Ayoub, Faculty Associate in Islam Online, beginning January 22 and Christian-Muslim Relations “Why are there so few youth and young adults now in this congregation? What can we do?” This is a familiar plaint in many congregations and echoed in their denominations’

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Continued from previous page geographically and thematically organized case studies Christian-Muslim Encounter: that address Muslim theological approaches to politics The Theological Dimension in the 20th and 21st centuries. Timur Yuskaev, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Islam Wednesdays, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Feb. 6, Feb. 20, March 13, April 3, April 24, plus additional online sessions This course explores the complexity of Christian and Worship & Spirituality Muslim theological interpretation of each other, and of themselves in light of the other, in various times and Islamic Spirituality contexts. Lucinda Mosher, Faculty Associate in Interfaith Tuesdays, from 3:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., beginning January Studies 22 This course explores the nature and diversity of Sufism by looking at the origins and development of Islamic Muslim Political Theology in spiritual thought and practices in history. Yahya Michot, the 20th and 21st Centuries Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 7:40 p.m. to 9:10 p.m., Relations beginning January 22 This course offers an in-depth exploration of