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Scott Alexander is Associate Professor of Islam at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, where he is also Chair of the Department of Intercultural Studies and Ministry and director of the school’s Catholic-Muslim Studies Program. He is co-editor of A Dictionary of Christian—Muslim Relations (Cambridge University Press, anticipated 2012), and is the author of a number of articles on Islamic history and religion and Christian-Muslim Relations. His most recent book project is entitled The Race to Goodness: an End to Triumphalism in Christian-Muslim Relations.
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Dr. Ajari Mui Baltrunas has been a Buddhist practitioner since his ordination in 1971 as a Theravada forest monk in Thailand. Mui took his graduate diploma in Abhidhamma (Ph.D. with an emphasis on Buddhist psychology) from the Buddhist and Pali University in Sri Lanka and a doctorate in literature and languages from the English University at Oxford. Sensei Mui serves as a priest of Tendai which emphasizes an all-inclusive view of Buddhism and human experience balanced by wisdom and compassion. |
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Joan Chittister, O.S.B., (speaker) is member of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, Pennsylvania, and Executive Director of BenetVision, a resource center for contemporary spirituality. She travels worldwide to speak about spirituality, peace, and the role of women in the Roman Catholic church. Sr. Joan has appeared annually on 30 Good Minutes since 1991.
Joan Chittister sermons
Joan Chittister's website
Joan Chittister books
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Sister Patricia Crowley is Prioress of the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago, a community of 51 women committed to contemplative prayer, community life and ministries that respond to the changing demands around us. She has worked with the homeless for more than 30 years, following in the footsteps of her mother, who founded the women's shelter, Deborah's Place.
http://www.osbchicago.org/index.htm |
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The Rev. Dr. Lillian Daniel (co-host) is Senior Minister of the First Congregational Church of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, where she has served since 2004, following eight years as Senior Minister of the Church of the Redeemer, in New Haven, Connecticut. Lillian has taught preaching at Yale Divinity School and Chicago Theological Seminary and is a writer for the “Biblical Preaching Journal” and the “Christian Century Magazine.” Her new book, “Tell It Like It Is: Reclaiming the Practice of Testimony,” is the story of how God moves in the local church when people speak about God's presence to each other. |
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The Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy is President of the Interfaith Alliance in Washington, D.C.,
a nonpartisan, grassroots organization with 185,000 members and 75 faith traditions, who celebrate religious freedom and unite their voices to challenge religious extremism. He also pastors Northminster Baptist Church in Monroe, Louisiana. Dr. Gaddy is a familiar face on television news programs, where he provides commentary on issues related to politics and religion. He’s the author of more than 20 books and is host of “State of Belief” on Air America. |
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Vicki Garvey (reflections) is an educator and has taught professionally at every level. Her longest forays have been at the graduate level with seminarians and others, and with high school students. Over the last several years, she has been energized by an even wider age range: from preschoolers through elders of the community. She now serves as Canon for Lifelong Christian Formation for the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago and fulfills the same role at a local congregation. |
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Artist Jed Gibbons studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and graduated from the Kendal School of Design in Grand Rapids MI. He has been living and working in Chicago as an illustrator, art director, creative director and designer. He recently completed illuminating the Stations of the Cross for Our Lady of the Assumption Chapel on Enders Island, Mystic, CT, as well as commissions for the John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington DC and The Religious Sisters of Mercy in Alma MI.
http://www.acornarts.org/JedGibbons.html |
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Julie Hamos is an Illinois State Representative from the Illinois 18th District. Prior to elective office, she pursued a career advocating for families and public interest issues. (Julie Hamos website)
http://www.juliehamos.org/ |
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Terry Hershey (speaker) has served as a Protestant minister, and is now a writer and landscape designer on Vashon Island in Puget Sound. Hershey writes about being intoxicated with this world. Terry's eighth book, Sacred Necessities for People Who Love Live (Ave Maria), celebrates life by hearing the music, not just playing the right notes. His gardens and books have been featured in Pacific Northwest Magazine (Seattle Times), Seattle Homes and Lifestyle, and the Tacoma News Tribune. He speaks throughout the United States and Canada on relationships and spirituality and gardening.
Terry Hershey's website |
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Clinical Psychologist, Jerry Hiller, and his psychotherapist wife, Marilyn Rochon, lead a weekly, lunchtime series called "Repair My House" at St. Peter's Church in Chicago that teaches people to deal with the challenges of daily life by drawing on the strength that comes from tending to one's spirit.
http://www.stpetersloop.org/ |
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John Killinger (speaker) has been writing, teaching and preaching for nearly six decades and shows no sign of retiring. He’s been a pastor in Baptist, Presbyterian, and Congregational churches from coast-to-coast. He’s taught at Vanderbilt, Princeton and the University of Chicago. He’s written more than 70 books, including his latest called “If Christians Were Really Christian.” In the midst of all that activity, he’s managed to make 18 appearances on “30 Good Minutes".
John Killinger sermons
John Killinger books
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Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of the best-selling "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" (1981) and "Conquering Fear" (2009) talks about the resources we have through faith and our own, God-given inner strength to overcome our fears. |
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The Rev. Dr.Jacqui Lewis (speaker) is Senior Minister of Middle Collegiate Churchin New York City, a multicultural, multiracial, multi-faceted congregation in the East Village. Jacqui grew up in Chicago, where she first sensed God’s call to ministry. Following college, she spent eight years at the Eastman Kodak Company before entering Princeton Theological Seminary. She went on to earn two PhDs in religion before joining the Middle Church staff in 2004. Jacqui is the author of “The Power of Stories: A Guide for Leaders in Multiracial, Multicultural Congregations.” |
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Tom McGrath, (reflections) is Vice President of Product Development for Loyola Press, publishers of the Finding God in All Things religious education program. Tom is most recently the co-creator, with Bret Nicholaus, of The Meal Box: Fun Questions and Family Faith Tips to Get Mealtime Conversations Cookin'. |
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The Rev. Otis Moss III (speaker) is the newly appointed pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Otis recently moved to Chicago from Augusta, Georgia, where he was pastor of the historic Tabernacle Baptist Church for nine years. He was a Ford Foundation Scholar and All-American Track and Field athlete at Morehouse College before earning a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University. His love for God and young people has led him to speak and preach in churches, seminaries and colleges across the globe, including South Africa, Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Egypt. Newsweek magazine recently cited Rev. Moss as one of “God's foot Soldiers,” committed to transforming the lives of youth.
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Writer and educator Parker Palmer is founder and senior partner of the Center for Courage & Renewal. He has published a dozen poems, some two hundred essays and seven books, including several best-selling and award-winning titles: A Hidden Wholeness, Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, and The Promise of Paradox. |
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Daniel Pawlus (co-host) is an actor, writer, and producer who joined 30 Good Minutes as a co-host in 2005. He has appeared on stage in Broadway touring companies, hosted a gardening show on HGTV, and appeared in numerous television commercials. Daniel is a member of Old St. Patrick’s Church in Chicago, where he sings in the choir. He and his wife Leanna are happy to be residing in the Midwest after years of living on the coasts.
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Chicago artist Naomi Pridjian is a second generation Armenian-American who works in mixed media and digital art.
Naomi Pridjian's website |
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Benjamin Reaves (speaker) is a minister in the Seventh-day Adventist Church and Vice President of Ministries for Adventist Health System. Previously he was President of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. Ben has appeared on 30 Good Minutes annually since 1989.
Benjamin Reaves sermons |
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Susan Sholtes is a family therapist specializing in the psycho-social aspects of chronic medical illness, disabilities and loss. She is co-director of Celebrating Minds, a non-profit organization that supports students, parents and educators understanding the unique contribution each mind brings to the learning process.
http://www.caringvoices.info/susan.htm |
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Michael Siegel (reflections) is Senior Rabbi of Anshe Emet Synagogue in Chicago and is a leader in the Jewish community locally and nationally. He first appeared on 30 Good Minutes in 2003. |
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Lydia Talbot (co-host) has been a host on 30 Good Minutes since 1992. She is Executive Director of Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries, which produces Sanctuary on ABC Chicago and Different Drummers on CBS Chicago. Lydia serves on the boards of The Christian Century, Chicago Bible Society, and the Chicago Sunday Evening Club, producers of 30 Good Minutes.
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Phyllis Tickle is one of America's foremost obersvers of religion. She was the founding editor of the Religion Department of Publishers Weekly and is the author of The Great Emergence and The Divine Hours.
http://www.phyllistickle.com/ |
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Judith Valente (reflections) is an awarding-winning journalist, producer, poet and essayist whose work has been featured on 30 Good Minutes since 2005. She began her career in journalism as a staff reporter for The Washington Post, later joined The Wall Street Journal, and was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Since 1998, Ms. Valente has been an on-air correspondent for the national PBS-TV news program Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. Her reporting has also appeared on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She has won nine broadcast awards. Ms. Valente is a commentator for National Public Radio and Chicago Public Radio, where she covers religion, interviews poets and authors, and is a guest essayist. Ms. Valente’s first full-length collection of poems, Discovering Moons, is forthcoming from Virtual Artists Collective, and in 2004, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver selected Ms. Valente’s chapbook, Inventing An Alphabet, for the national Aldrich Poetry Prize. She is co-editor of the anthology, Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul (Loyola Press, 2005). Ms. Valente is married to Illinois Circuit Court Judge and poet Charles Reynard. They live in Chicago and Normal, IL. |
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