Love Will Bring Us Together – Yale Hosts High Profile Christian-Muslim Conference
Yale may enjoy throwing students out just for kicks. But starting tomorrow and continuing till Thursday, the University Divinity School will be welcoming prominent Christian and Muslim scholars and leaders to participate in a series of public sessions to promote peace and understanding between the two religious groups.
Hosted by the Divinity School and sponsored by A Common Word, the conference hopes to “foster better understanding between Islam and the West.” A Common Word was founded last October by Muslim scholars and seeks to promote the two religions’ common values: love of God and love of neighbor.
From A Common Word’s official site:
Without peace and justice between these two religious communities, there can be no meaningful peace in the world. The future of the world depends on peace between Muslims and Christians…The Unity of God, the necessity of love for Him, and the necessity of love of the neighbour is thus the common ground between Islam and Christianity.
60 theologians began meeting this past Friday on Yale’s campus, and events open to the public begin Tuesday at 8AM. Schedule of events with keynote speakers after the jump.
Monday, July 28, 2008
| 8:00 pm | Keynote Address, Senator John Kerry, by invitation only. –updated July 28, 2008 |
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
| 8:30 – 8:45 | Word of Welcome, Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University. Word of Welcome (in Arabic), Joseph L. Cumming, Director, Reconciliation Program |
| 8:45 – 10:00 | Keynote Addresse, Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric. followed by Q&A |
| 10:00 – 10:45 | Coffee/Tea |
| 10:45 – 12:00 | Conference Panel 1: God is Loving, Habib al-Jifri, Alan Godlas, Miroslav Volf, David Burrell, 10 minutes each, followed by Q&A, 30 minutes |
| 12:00 – 2:00 | Buffet Lunch |
| 2:00 – 3:15 | Conference Panel 2: Loving God, Ayot Mohaghagh Damad, Naim Travna, David Ford, 10 minutes each, Q&A, 30 minutes |
| 3:15 – 4:15 | Coffee/Tea |
| 4:15 – 5:30 | Conference Panel 3: Loving Neighbor, Mustafa Cherif, Martin Accad, Tokunboh Adeyemo, 10 minutes each, followed by Q&A, 30 minutes. |
| 5:30 – 6:30 | Free Time |
| 6:30 – 8:00 | Dinner |
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
| 8:30 – 10:00 | Keynote Addresses 3 & 4, Habib Ali Jiffri, Robert H. Schuller. 30-minute address followed by Q&A |
| 10:00 – 10:45 | Coffee/Tea |
| 10:45 – 12:00 | Conference Panel 4: Love and Speech, Emilie Townes, David Shenk, T.J. Winter, Dalia Mogahed, and Hashem Kamali , 30 minutes, followed by Q&A. |
| 12:00 – 2:00 | Buffet Lunch |
| 2:00 – 3:15 | Conference Panel 5: Love and World Poverty, H.E. Shaykh Dr. Hussein Hasan Abakar, Mahmoud Madani, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Geoff Tunnicliffe, and Heidi Hadsell, 10 minutes each, followed by Q&A, 30 minutes |
| 3:15 – 4:00 | Free Time |
| 4:00 | Depart from Hotel for Afternoon “Getaway” |
| 9:00 | Return to Hotel (8:45 Iqama on-site) |
Thursday, July 31, 2008
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Conference Panel 6: Summary Statements, Dr. Abd Al-Kabir Mudghari, Mohammed Alwani Al-Sharif, Leith Anderson, 10 minutes each. Summary Document, 10-minute presentation followed by Q&A, 20 minutes |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Keynote Addresses 5 & 6, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, 30-minute address followed by Q&A, 30 minutes. |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:30 – 1:00 | Summary Statements and News Conference |
| 1:00 – 2:00 | Buffet Lunch |
| Afternoon | Conference participants depart |
Prayer Times and Locations
Muslim Prayer. A designated prayer room will be available both at the hotel and at day venues. The location will be announced. Suggested prayer times (Iqama):
| Fajr (dawn) | 5:00 am |
| Zuhr (noon) | 1:45 pm |
| Asr (afternoon) | 6:15 pm |
| Maghrib (sunset) | 8:45 pm |
| Isha (night) | 10:00 pm |
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July 29th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
is this even remotely interesting? gonna continue to make posts that read like press releases every time an ivy hosts a relatively important conference? im just bewildered by this post…
July 29th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
The point is that it’s news. I’m all for bitching out personal posts, so when they manage to post real news, even if it’s boring… well that’s enough for me, for now.