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People of diverse religious backgrounds encounter each other daily in coffee shops, hospitals, classrooms, and around the dinner table. What might these encounters teach us about ourselves, our neighbors, or about God? Drawing on stories from My Neighbor’s Faith (Orbis, 2012), this year's Singh Lecture will explore what these encounters tell us about the nature of transformative interfaith work today.

A Celebration in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the GTU, including dinner, entertainment, and art auction featuring original works inspired by the mission of the GTU and commissioned for this event.

Special Guests: Interfaith and Ecumenical Pioneers Rita Semel and Judith Berling

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St. Regis San Francisco, 125 Third Street, San Francisco.

We will explore the various images of Muslims and Jews in television and film.

Workshops 2pm-5:45pm

Reception 5:45pm-6:15pm

Film Screening of Arranged with Q&A 6:15pm-8:15pm

Sponsored by the Center for Islamic Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies.

Easton Hall, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, 2401 Ridge Road, Berkeley

Contact cis@gtu.edu or cjs@gtu.edu for more information.

We will explore the Christian, Mormon, Muslim and Jewish perspectives on the upcoming election and the role of religion in American politics, with attention to recent discussions around the separation of Church and State, on religious freedom and its role in public policy, and U.S. foreign policy.

Speakers:

Dr. James Noel, H. Eugene Farlough, Jr. Professor of African American Christianity at SFTS will deliver this year’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture entitled “Black Religion in the Atlantic World During the Age of Revolution: Excavating the ‘Sublime.’”

Dr. Naomi Seidman, Koret Professor of Jewish Culture and Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies (GTU) will be the respondent.