Auburn News

Auburn's activities and staff are featured frequently in the news through reporting on our programs as well as through our blogs in the Washington Post, Huffington Post and Religion Dispatches. Look here for recent articles about our work and our perspectives on religion and public life.

By Jennifer Hano
April 15, 2011
On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 the Women’s Multifaith Program will convene a summit meeting with a select group of women activists and thought leaders to begin to conceptualize the substance of what building a sound, innovative and accessible theological language that will ignite the moral vision and stimulate and sustain the activism of social justice movement work looks like.
By Jennifer Hano
March 16, 2011
In honor of Women’s History Month, The Riverside Church in collaboration with Auburn’s Women’s Multifaith Program and Union Seminary cordially invite you to attend a dinner and discussion with Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook on Thursday, March 31, 2011
By Jennifer Hano
February 17, 2011
A five-member research team at Auburn studied seminary presidents and their senior teams for four years to identify the ingredients of leadership that creates stable, forward-looking theological institutions.
By Jennifer Hano
February 11, 2011
The Protestant-Jewish Seminarian Program on Israel and Palestine, launched in 2008, brings together rabbinic students and Christian seminarians to learn about each other's communal, political, and theological perspectives on Israel, the Palestinian Territories, and the regional conflict.
By Jeanine Caunt
February 2, 2011
Key religious leaders are calling for 'Prayer for David Kato' on February 3rd, the first day of the National Prayer Breakfast, to honor the Ugandan gay rights activist who was killed last week, amidst a storm of anti-gay sentiment in his country.
By Jennifer Hano
January 25, 2011
A unique opportunity for African-American women religious leaders to begin to cull from their own experience the content of what a truly wholeness based, social justice infused life of faith actually looks, feels and lives like.
By Kellie Anderson-Picallo
January 24, 2011
This February 3, March 3 and April 7th join Auburn Seminary, Central Synagogue, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, First Presbyterian in the City of New York and the Muslim Consultative Network for documentary and discussion.
By Jennifer Hano
January 21, 2011
Explores the communal, political and religious dimensions of the interaction of Israelis and Palestinians through the personal, first-hand accounts of alumni of an intensive interfaith program about the region.
By Jennifer Hano
January 14, 2011
This course equips leaders with educational tools useful for the teaching ministry of the church. Now accepting registrations for our March course.
By Jennifer Hano
January 13, 2011
The Beatitudes Society, a key Auburn partner, is accepting applications for two of their signature programs; the Prophetic Preaching Workshops and the 2011 Summer Fellowship for Seminarians.
   
Preaching for Peace: Auburn President Rev. Dr. Katharine Henderson

Rev. Dr. Katharine Henderson preached for multifaith understanding around the recent controversy at the NYC Park 51 Community Center near Ground Zero. To learn more about how Auburn is equipping religious leaders for multifaith dialogue click here. To watch Auburn’s Take the Bully Out of the Pulpit: How America’s Faith Leaders Can Bring Healing to the Nation click here.