Come and learn how to dialogue about differing faiths with respect, and an eye toward understanding. Watch it happen with a Protestant Minister, a Catholic Priest and an Islamic Studies graduate student. Join into the dialogue with your own questions.
Panel Discussion: Beginning to Talk: Jews, Christians and Muslims Together
WHEN: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 5:00 pm
WHERE: The Joinery Room in the Center for Early Childhood Education Eastern Connecticut State University
Refreshments will be served at the end of the panel at 6pm!
Panel includes:
Rev. Dr. Walter H. Wagner, Adjunct Professor of Church History, New Testament, and World Religions at Moravian Theological Seminary, Moravian College, and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia PA. Rev. Dr. Wagner has been ordained in the Lutheran church for 52 years, serving in parish ministry, national church office, chaplaincy, and various higher education faculties. He has also authored numerous books, including After theApostles: Christianity in the Second Century, and the latest of which was the 2008 publication Opening the Qur’an. (Winner of the Bronze 2008 Book of the Year Award for Religion, Foreword Magazine)
Fr. Larry LaPointe was ordained in June 1970. He received his bachelors degree from St Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore, MD. He received his Masters Degree from Johns Hopkins University also in Baltimore. Fr. Larry has spent 39 years in campus ministry, with 35 of those years being spent at Eastern Connecticut State University. He has also served at The Gilman School in Baltimore, MD and Connecticut College in New London, CT. While currently continuing to serve as Diocesan Director of Campus Ministry for the Diocese of Norwich as well as campus minister at Eastern, Fr. Larry also serves as pastor to two parishes – St. Joseph Church, Willimantic, CT and Sagrado Corazon de Jesus in Windham, CT.
Neşet Uluşal received his BA From Marmara University, department of Theology, in 1997. In 2006, he received an MA degree from Marmara University, Faculty of Social Studies, with a concentration on “Tafsir” (the interpretation of the Qur’an). He started his second MA at Moravian Theological Seminary, in Bethlehem, PA, concentrating on Biblical Studies, and continues his MA at the Hartford Seminary, in the Islamic Studies, Christian-Muslim Relations program. He is also in the Islamic Chaplaincy Graduate Certificate Program of the Hartford Seminary, and is currently the Muslim Chaplain intern at Eastern Connecticut State University.
David L. Stoloff is a Professor in the Education Department and Director of the Center for Educational Excellence (CEE) at Eastern Connecticut State University. In his 26th year as a faculty member in teacher education programs at Eastern CSU, Sonoma (CA) State University, Cal. State, LA, and SUNY, Plattsburgh, Dr. Stoloff teaches courses in educational technology and liberal arts colloquium in world religions. He started his professional career as a Peace Corps volunteer teacher in Zaire, followed by years teaching high school sciences and mathematics in Israel and in Long Beach, CA. He earned a Ph.D. in Comparative and International Education from UCLA, a MS in Educational Technology from Concordia University in Montreal, and a BS in Biology and Secondary Certification from SUNY, Brockport. David is a CECA Advisor and presented at the 2008 CECA conference on Web 2.0 tools and other internet resources for learning and teaching