Scholar In Residence to Offer On-Site Tutorials
The Rev. Fr. Bernie O’Connor, formerly of the Vatican staff and a distinguished professor on the Foundation faculty (see profile), will be “Scholar in Residence” at the Foundation from July 1-21, 2012. During that time, he will be available for On-Site Tutorials on the following three topics: “Papal Diplomacy: An Analysis from an Ecumenical Perspective”; “Models for the Resolution of Congregational Conflict”; and “The Role of Religion in International Peace-Making.”
Dr. O’Connor is the author of Papal Diplomacy: John Paul II and the Culture of Peace (St. Augustine’s Press, 2005), an authoritative work on the subject, and is a recognized international practitioner in the field of ecclesial mediation.
more...Graduation 2012: Honorees, graduates & festivities, part II
Another selection of photos of honorees and graduating students from our 2012 Graduation on May 4 and our Runcie Lecture and Social on May 3. To see more photos, please visit our Photo Gallery and our Facebook photo album.
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The 2012 Graduating Class of the Graduate Theological Foundation and Cloverdale College.
more...Graduation 2012: photos of honorees, part I
A selection of photos of a few of the 2012 honorees at this year's graduation ceremony. We'll continue to add photos during the coming days.
For now, you can see dozens of more photos on our Photo Gallery and our Facebook photo album. What did you think of the graduation festivities? You can register as a user of this blog to leave us a comment letting us know!
Dr. Omar Shahin was awarded the Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) at this year's graduation...
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2012 Graduation Review: Fellowships & Prizes
Many congratulations to all the fellowship and prize recipients for their outstanding academic work as students at the Foundation! Our 2012 Graduation was a huge success as we welcomed hundreds of graduating students, special guests and Foundation faculty to Mishawaka last week. It is a very big year for us as we celebrate our 50th anniversary as an educational institution, and it was a great pleasure to share it with everyone who traveled to Indiana for the graduation.
Please be sure to visit our Facebook page for photos from the festivities on May 3 and 4. More photos will be added in the coming days.
Three New E-Tutorials Now Offered
Several years ago, we introduced the E-Tutorial as both a convenient and intensive way for professional degree students to fulfill their credit requirements. It's proved a success, and we are frequently adding more E-Tutorials across a range of subject areas. We've recently added the following three E-Tutorials which are taught by Foundation faculty...
Women's History Month: Rabi'a Al-'Adawiyya (Sufi Muslim Saint)
Having taken a short break from the blog recently, we'll be continuing with our Women's History Month series with today's post. The choices we've made in featuring certain female historical figures is based in part on who the Foundation has named scholarships and prizes for, such as the Sufi Muslim saint, Rabi'a Al-'Adawiyya (Scholarship in Islamic Ministries), who we feature today.
These are people who fascinate us, and we hope they fascinate you, too! Let us know what you think by registering as a user and leaving a comment.
To see a list of all of our scholarships, please visit our Scholarships page.
THIS SACRED EARTH: An interview with Dr. Paul Kirbas
Dr. Paul Kirbas joins us for a discussion of his new book, This Sacred Earth (Wyndham Hall Press, 2011) and how his own organization is fostering dialogue around science and religion.
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Dr. Kirbas is the Paul Tillich Professor of Theology and Culture here at the Foundation. For a complete biography, please visit his faculty profile. Dr. Kirbas is also offering an E-Tutorial on the subject of his new book: "God, Nature and Us: An Interdisciplinary Approach to a New Paradigm for the Human Place in Nature." (Click here for details.)
You recently edited a book, This Sacred Earth: Scientific and Religious Perspectives on Nature and Humanity's Place Within It (Wyndham Hall Press, 2011). What did you want to achieve with this book, and how did you go about putting it together?
This book is a result of a project that I was invited to lead back in 2010. The Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan, asked me to bring together leading scientists, theologians, philosophers, and others for a 3 day conversation on the sanctity of nature. We gathered thinkers from around the world, and from several different faith traditions, for this conversation.
International Women's Day & Women's History Month: Regina Jonas, the world's first woman rabbi
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!
This month we not only celebrate Women's History Month, but the often overlooked International Women's Day which falls every year on March 8. The idea is over 100 years, with the first National Woman's Day celebrated in 1909 in the U.S., and there are myriad organizations which support and celebrate this important occasion, including the National Women's History Project and the United Nations, to name but two.
As an educational foundation, we like to share our interest in raising awareness about issues and individuals related to the work we do, so today we begin our series on women educators and religious leaders throughout the many past centuries. In fact, many of our scholarships, academic prizes and named professorships carry the names of the women we'll be posting about this month.
Who are the women who have influenced you the most in your life?
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African American History: Ida B. Robinson & Benjamin E. Mays
Today marks not only the once-every-four-years Leap Day, it also marks the end of our month-long series in celebration of African American History Month. We hope you've enjoyed the series and perhaps even learned something new about someone you admire, or learned of someone you might not have known of before. This month, we've featured educators, activists, scholars and religious leaders from the 18th century up to the present-day: Mary McLeod Bethune and Howard Thurman; E. Franklin Frazier and Harry Thacker Burleigh; Nannie Helen Burroughs and Warith Deen Muhammad; and Catherine Ferguson, Richard Allen and Rebecca Cox Jackson. In our final post, we feature religious leader Ida B. Robinson and sociologist Benjamin E. Mays.
If you've enjoyed this month's series on African American History, please let us know! We'd love to hear from you. Just click on "Register" to go through the free (and painless) registration process in order to comment on the Foundation blog. You only need to do this once. Do you have some names you would have liked to see in this series? What are they? What other historical or contemporary religious leaders and educators have influenced or inspired your ministry?
African American History: Catherine Ferguson, Richard Allen & Rebecca Cox Jackson
This is our final week of blog posts in celebration of African American History Month, and today we are featuring a number of instrumental and fascinating figures within religious history. We're pleased to welcome The Rev. Dr. Ore Lee Spragin, Jr., as a contributor to the blog this week. He is Professor of Church History here at the Foundation and the 2010 Macquarrie Fellow. Please click here to visit his faculty profile.
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