{"id":53104,"date":"2019-09-12T18:05:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T18:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/?p=53104"},"modified":"2019-09-18T19:29:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:29:49","slug":"2019-christensen-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/2019\/09\/12\/2019-christensen-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Christensen Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-53146 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/6389_ChristensenConvo_930x285.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot photos of Dr. Hamdy and Bishop Younan next to presentation title &quot;Suffering and Hope in the Midst of Conflict&quot;\" width=\"3875\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/6389_ChristensenConvo_930x285.jpg 3875w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/6389_ChristensenConvo_930x285-300x92.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/6389_ChristensenConvo_930x285-768x235.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/6389_ChristensenConvo_930x285-1024x314.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3875px) 100vw, 3875px\" \/>Thursday, October 3<br \/>\n11 AM &#8211; 12 PM<br \/>\nHoversten Chapel, Foss Center<\/h2>\n<p>S<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">peakers:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamdy El-Sawaf, founder and psychotherapist at the Family Counseling Center and imam of Masjid Al-Iman in Minneapolis<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Munib Younan, retired bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land and former president of the Lutheran World Federation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamdy El-Sawaf and Munib Younan will share personal experiences and their religious faith perspectives on hope, reconciliation, and resiliency in the midst of suffering and struggles that often are intensified by religious convictions and differences.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the Christensen Symposium:<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each year, the Christensen Symposium provides the opportunity to explore and apply the lessons rooted in former Augsburg President Bernhard M. Christensen\u2019s legacy:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christian faith liberates minds and lives.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diversity strengthens vital communities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interfaith friendships enrich learning.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The love of Christ draws us to God.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are called to service in the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 2019 Christensen Symposium is co-sponsored by the Christensen Center for Vocation and the newly created <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interfaith at Augsburg: An Institute to Promote Interreligious Leadership.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0This session may be audio recorded. If you would like to be alerted as soon as the audio is available, please email\u00a0<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;i&#108;&#x74;o&#x3a;&#x63;&#99;&#x76;&#64;&#97;&#x75;g&#115;&#x62;&#117;&#x72;g&#46;&#x65;d&#117;\">&#99;&#x63;&#118;&#x40;&#97;&#x75;&#103;&#x73;&#98;&#x75;&#114;&#x67;&#46;&#x65;&#100;&#x75;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For requests related to accommodations at the Symposium, email <a href=\"&#x6d;a&#x69;&#108;&#x74;&#111;:&#x65;v&#x65;&#110;&#x74;&#115;&#64;&#x61;&#117;&#x67;&#115;b&#x75;r&#x67;&#46;&#x65;&#100;u\">&#x65;v&#x65;&#110;t&#x73;&#64;&#x61;&#x75;g&#x73;&#98;u&#x72;&#103;&#x2e;&#101;d&#x75;<\/a>\u00a0or call 612-330-1104.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, October 3 11 AM &#8211; 12 PM Hoversten Chapel, Foss Center Speakers: Hamdy El-Sawaf, founder and psychotherapist at the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[141,10,142,33],"class_list":["post-53104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bishop-munib-younan","tag-christensen-symposium","tag-dr-hamdy-el-sawaf","tag-interreligious-dialogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53104"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53177,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53104\/revisions\/53177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}