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is the largest and most diverse partnership of seminaries and graduate schools in the United States, pursuing interreligious collaboration in teaching, research, ministry, and service. We offer a Center for Jewish Studies, a Center for Islamic Studies, and three programs — the Asia Project, Black Church/Africana Religious Studies, and Women’s Studies in Religion. Students can pursue the Ph.D., Th.D., and M.A., plus two joint Ph.D. programs with the University of California, Berkeley.

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THE GTU BOARD OF TRUSTEES
INVITES YOU!

to join with friends of
the Graduate Theological Union
as we launch

Religion Meets the World

GTU'S CAMPAIGN FOR INTERFAITH EDUCATION

Have dinner with GTU friends at the beautiful St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco
Honor our former Board Chair John Weiser
Hear keynote speaker Barbara Bradley Hagerty, NPR’s religion correspondent

Proceeds will support GTU student scholarships

Monday, March 22, 2010 6-9 pm
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New Media and Social Networking among Muslim youth

A two-day program (March 8-9) to explore how Muslim youth are using new media, politics and popular culture to explore their identities, seek out and create "virtual" communities, promote new agendas and develop and promote new images (including new self-images). Co-Sponsored by Center for Islamic Studies and UC Berkeley.

Virtual Pulpit: Net Mosques, Congregations & Imams

Islam, Social Lives, and Online Networking

An Afternoon with the GTU President and Deans

Staying Informed, Sustaining Momentum

March 10, 3:30 pm, Dinner Board Room, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library

There will be an update on several items that the SAC and doctoral students have worked on in the past. This is your opportunity to come, listen, ask questions, and raise new topics that have been overlooked. Learn more about this event...

Hosted by the Student Advisory Committee

A Ramp is Not Enough

A Religion and Disability Conference, March 12, 2010

handicap logo This conference advocates exemplary ministry by pursuing disability awareness and exploring ways to achieve theological and institutional accessibility and accommodation.

Keynote address:
There but for the Grace of God: Biblical and Theological Reflections On Issues of Disability

Kathy Black, The Gerald Kennedy Chair of Homiletics and Liturgics, Claremont School of Theology

Learn more about this conference...

Truth Commission on Conscience in War

to Honor and Protect Freedom of Conscience for Our Nation's Service Members

A diverse coalition of forty religious, academic, advocacy and veterans groups today has organized the first Truth Commission on Conscience in War. The conference will take place at The Riverside Church in New York City, the same location The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic “Beyond Vietnam” speech. At the March 21 event, commissioners will receive testimony from recent veterans, religious leaders and legal experts about issues of conscience facing service members serving in war.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate Theological Union.

Learn more about this event...

Will New Tax Laws Affect My Estate Plan?

It's an extraordinarily uncertain time—tax wise, that is. This is the first year in decades that American tax law repealed the federal estate tax. As of Jan. 1, 2010, federal estate taxes are repealed for any deaths that occur during this calendar year, regardless of the size of that person's estate. That sounds like a good thing for everyone, doesn't it? Actually, it could be a double-edged sword. Read on to find out why.

Responding to the Disaster in Haiti

Supplies Are Pouring In; Much More Will Be Needed

Haiti Relief Quick Links to Popular Aid Organizations:

“And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins.” — Luke 5:37-38, New International Version of the Bible

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GTU Student Jason Hamza Van Boom* interviews prominent scholars, journalists, and playwrights about their latest works on Islam.

A live, onstage series of conversations

Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California, 1433 Madison St, Oakland

1/23: Wajahat Ali, playwright, author of the play Domestic Crusaders
2/20: John Esposito, professor at Georgetown University, author of The Future of Islam
4/24: Jonathan Curiel, journalist and writer, author of Al' America: Travels through America's Arab and Islamic Roots

*Van Boom is a Muslim Ph.D. student studying the History of Christianity

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