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Annual Advent Service Marks 65th Anniversary on Dec. 5
As it has every year since 1959, the Perkins School of Theology community will celebrate the season with its annual Advent Service, on Thursday, December 5, at 6 p.m. The service will take place in Perkins Chapel, 6001 Bishop Blvd., on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas. The event is free and open…
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Robert Hunt Awarded ISNA Interfaith Relations Award
The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) honored Robert Hunt in September with its Excellence in Interfaith Relations Award. In bestowing the award, ISNA leaders cited his work in promoting interfaith relations through many years as a participant in international dialogue events, and in helping organize and lead Faiths in Conversation dialogue groups, engaging Perkins School…
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Presidential Visit with Perkins Students
Presidential Visit George W. Bush visits Perkins class on Presidential Rhetoric and American Political Theology Perkins students in Dallas Gingles’ classroom had a surprise visitor on September 17: former President George W. Bush. At the invitation of Gingles and the office of SMU President R. Gerald Turner, Bush participated in the “Presidential Rhetoric and American…