Education Events at the Seminary

Three separate panel discussions presented by Hartford Seminary, the Hartford Public Library, Charter Oak Cultural Center and the Conference of Churches. The series will examine the community’s responsibility toward poverty, peace, and planet Earth from an interfaith and public policy perspective. The discussions will touch on the religions’ place in American society and how they should use that place to reflect the prophetic, theological voice on these three issues with additional comment from community leaders. Poverty: Tuesday, March 20,  5:30 at the Library; Peace: Tuesday, April 24, 6:30 at Hartford Seminary; Planet Earth: Wednesday, June 6, 6:30 at Charter Oak.  You can register for the entire series or individual discussions.

In this lecture, Prof. Mattson will explore the way in which imagination, as a mode of thinking, relates to and forms an essential part of the reasoning process. Human imagination is both limiting and freeing as we contemplate the reality of the world in which we live and which we would like to see improved.

In this lecture, Professor Fadel will try to discuss why this idea of Islamic "exceptionalism" is deeply flawed, subversive of liberalism itself, and ironically, likely to bring about the very theological dangers that such measures are intended to forestall.  

This workshop looks at the reality of congregational vitality at the beginning of the 21 century through an interplay of three lenses.  One is the 10 year trend data from the Faith Communities Today 2000 and 2010 national surveys of American congregations.  A second is the wisdom of the current literature on congregational renewal.  The third and most critical is the experience of the participants’ own congregations.