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PC(USA) Seminaries e-newsletter highlights Auburn's work on gun violence prevention

Auburn Seminary takes public stand against gun violence. ...

MSNBC’s The Melissa Harris-Perry Show: Attention to women’s diseases should reach beyond Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie’s medical condition is rare and few women could benefit from the genetic testing she received, but her New York Times op-ed has ignited a national conversation about barriers to care ...

MSNBC’s The Melissa Harris-Perry Show: The Class of 2013

Valarie Kaur, Senior Fellow at Auburn Seminary, on MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry Show". Aired May 19, 2013 on the challenges and hopes of Millennials graduating in the Class of 2013....

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Auburn Lives of Commitment 2013 Honorees Clip Reel ...

MSNBC’s The Melissa Harris-Perry Show: Your Genes, Your Breasts, and the Choices Women Face

Valarie Kaur is a featured guest on MSNBC’s The Melissa Harris Perry Show. ...

State of Belief: On-Air Responsibility

NBA player Jason Collins became the first openly gay professional athlete of a major sport when he came out on the cover of last month’s Sports Illustrated. Despite the fact that most media coverage...

Change the world better: sharing some of our favorite faith-based messaging resources

We brag about you. You are one of the bold and resilient leaders who is using your faith voice to create change in the world through the media. We exist to support you....

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Lives of Commitment 2013 Honorees Clip Reel ...

State of Belief: Lives of Commitment Ceremony

This weekend, tune in to a special edition of State of Belief, Interfaith Alliance’s weekly radio show and podcast. Welton traveled to New York this past week to moderate a discussion among three di...

Our Inner Lives: Join Marianne Williamson, India Arie and More!

Join us for an evening of groundbreaking conversation and celebration. Speakers and guests representing diverse perspectives will reflect on the transformational quality of their spiritual experiences...

India America Today: President Obama Honors Oak Creek Officer Murphy and Other "Top Cops"

President Barack Obama on Saturday at the White House recognized law enforcement officers who had gone above and beyond the call of duty, including Lt. Brian Murphy of the Oak Creek Police department....

The Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson: Thank you for supporting multifaith leaders and the movement for justice!

From all of us at Auburn, we extend a warm thank you for participating in last week’s Lives of Commitment Awards Benefit Breakfast. At Auburn, we’re committed to equipping and encouraging bold and...

Nurturing Peace In Contexts of Global Violence: A Conference for Theological Educators and Religious Leaders

Peacemaking Conference: Religious leaders throughout the world in every faith tradition are challenged today to be active agents of peace. How can schools of theological education and faith-based gra...

Groundswell: Tell ESPN "Christian Does Not Equal Anti-Gay"

Reverend Debra Haffner via Groundswell: If ESPN addresses religious issues, it must include leaders from the many religious traditions that affirm sexual and gender diversity as a blessing, or they mu...

The Washington Post: ‘Nuns on the Bus’ will hit the road for immigration reform

The “Nuns on the Bus” are revving up their engines for another national campaign, only this time the Catholic sisters are taking their mobile platform for social justice along the country’s Sout...

Chicago Sun-Times: Duckworth launches PAC, aims at leadership role

Freshman Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) is positioning herself for a leadership role, launching a political action committee to boost other Democrats running for the House as her profile — and buzz �...

State of Belief: After Boston: Fear of Indiscriminate Islamophobia

Filmmaker and civil rights activist Valarie Kaur has been working to counter faith-based prejudice since the attacks of 9/11. As a third-generation Sikh-American, she knows well that as inappropriate ...

Valarie and Groundswell to receive The Reverend Dr. Richard B. Griffis Award from the Connecticut Council for Interreligious Understanding (CCIU)

Valarie and Groundswell to receive The Reverend Dr. Richard B. Griffis Award from the Connecticut Council for Interreligious Understanding (CCIU)...

The Huffington Post: What the Tsarnaev Brothers Can Teach Millennials: We Must Step Up for Peace and Unity

As we fight to find our identities, let's also fight to take back our country and establish ourselves, not by violence and divisiveness, but by diligence and inclusiveness. This means that we must tak...

Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Faith Leaders Address Senator Schumer On LGBT Rights

Several Brooklyn clergy, part of a coalition of nearly 100 New York interfaith leaders, recently wrote to United States Senator Charles E. Schumer, asking him to continue his historically strong suppo...

The Washington Post: For Sikhs and Muslims, fear after a terror attack

As a Sikh American who has chronicled hate crimes and profiling against our communities since Sept. 11, 2001, I wondered: Will we go down the same road again, or have we learned from history?...

PC(USA) Seminaries e-newsletter highlights Auburn's Lives of Commitment event May 1

Auburn Theological Seminary’s 2013 Lives of Commitment Awards Benefit Breakfast will be held May 1. The 17th annual awards benefit honors bold women leaders and next-generation change makers who bri...

Boston Bombing: Faith-based Messaging Tips

Faith-based messaging tips to help faith leaders and Auburn Media trainees use when speaking with the media and their communities....

The Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson: Join us in honoring, and learning from, multifaith leaders for justice

Auburn’s Lives of Commitment Awards Benefit Breakfast on May 1 is our time to learn from – and be galvanized by – true beacons of our time, who are bringing change and living the shared values o...

Huff Post: Follow the Helpers, Not the Haters

This week, as we all began learning of and responding to the bombings in Boston, a meme of Mr. Rogers went viral on Facebook. Like a lot of us, I grew up visiting him almost every day in Mr. Rogers' N...

Auburn Seminary urges faith leaders to unite against gun violence

NEW YORK — The Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson, president of Auburn Theological Seminary, released the following statement on the bi-partisan Senate proposal to expand background checks on firea...

The Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson: We are one with Boston

1 Corinthians chapter 12 reminds us "that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if on...

Face to Face Alum from Northern Ireland Meet with Members of Parliament

Rabbi Justus Baird, Dean of Auburn, and alumni of F2F from Northern Ireland had the opportunity to meet and ask questions of half a dozen Northern Ireland politicians at Stormont today....

2013 Lives of Commitment Awards Benefit Breakfast

On May 1, you are invited to Auburn’s 17th Annual Lives of Commitment Awards Benefit Breakfast. Hosted by the Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson, President, Auburn Seminary, we will honor bold wome...

MSNBC: Hesitant about marriage equality, Supreme Court? Follow the millennials’ lead

As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on two marriage equality cases last week, my partner and I watched the television set with bated breath. When the camera zoomed in on the steps of the Supreme...