Convocation: Ramadan Learning Experience
Join the Center for Interfaith Engagement (CIE) for an educational and advocacy experience about Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting, prayer, reflection and community. Tim Seidel will moderate a panel discussion focused on the questions listed below. Panel participants will include current EMU students, alum, as well....
“Borders & Bridges” – CIE Roundtable
Published in 2007, Border and Bridges: Mennonite Witness in a Religiously Diverse World offered case studies of ways in which Mennonites have contributed to peacebuilding and reconciliation in multi-religious contexts, offering a theological rationale for interfaith collaboration. Ten years later, what does Mennonite interfaith engagement look like? What lessons have been learned? What relationships have....
“Contagious Resilience: God With Us” – Trina Trotter Nussbaum
Trina Trotter Nussbaum is currently on research leave from the Center for InterFaith Engagement in order to finish work for her master’s degree in Conflict Transformation from the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at EMU. She is writing a thesis and conducting a research study which is entitled: Self-Care May Not Be Enough: Secondary Traumatic....
“Interfaith Engagement in the U.S.” – Rev. Steven Martin
A “learning luncheon” with Rev. Steven D. Martin on interfaith engagement in the U.S. Rev. Steven D. Martin is the Director of Communications and Development for the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. He has served United Methodist Churches as pastor for twenty years and is a graduate of Candler School of....
“Loving Enemies” – Rev. Steven D. Martin
Rev. Steven D. Martin is a filmmaker, photographer, interfaith engagement practitioner, ordained Methodist pastor, and Director of Communications and Development for the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC.) He has served United Methodist Churches as pastor for twenty years. His 2005 film for PBS, Theologians Under Hitler was critically acclaimed and....
The Weight of Transgenerational Trauma – Dr. Marjorie Agosin
“Transgenerational trauma” is trauma that is transferred from the first generation of trauma survivors to the second and further generations of offspring of the survivors via complex post-traumatic stress disorder mechanisms. The descendant of Russian and Austrian Jews who perished in the Pogrom and the Holocaust, Dr. Marjorie Agosin’s family escaped from Vienna, Austria and....
Suter Science Seminar with Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish
I Shall Not Hate: A Journey of Hope through Faith, Tolerance, and Courage Dr. Abuelaish is a Palestinian medical doctor and infertility specialist who has dedicated his life to peace in the conflict between Israel and Palestine. He was a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize for three consecutive years. Born and raised in the....
“A Conversation for Peace and Resilience” – Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish
“A Conversation for Peace and Resilience” Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, MD, MPH Seminary Chapel Gathering led by Matthew Bucher, Maria Hosler Byler, Eric Trinka Dr. Abuelaish is a prominent Palestinian Muslim physician form Gaza who wrote, “I shall not Hate” about his life, the tragedy that befell his family, and his vision for a peaceful future....
“Holy Week Chapel: What was the last supper of Jesus?” – Rabbi Niles Goldstein
Explore the meaning and symbols of Passover and the Seder Meal with Rabbi Niles Goldstein, visiting Jewish scholar, prior to the invitation by campus pastors into the symbolism of bread and cup in what has come to be called Holy Communion for many Christians. ——- Niles Goldstein is a rabbi and the award-winning author of....
“CIE Interfaith Forum: Part II” – Amir Akrami and Mark Thiessen Nation
Pluralism, Particularity & the Way to Peace, II: Why Do We — a Muslim & a Mennonite— Care About This? A year ago the Center for Interfaith Engagement’s Visiting Muslim Scholar and theologian Dr. Amir Akrami and Mennonite theologian and Eastern Mennonite Seminary professor Dr. Mark Thiessen Nation engaged in a public discussion about Akrami’s....