EDUCATION
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Th. D. 2002 |
General Theological Seminary (New York City)
Dissertation: The Marrow of Worship and the Moral Vision: Ethical Dimensions of Anglican and Islamic Classical Supplication Literature.
Concentration: ethics, interfaith relations, dialogue theory and practice, with particular emphasis on the Anglican conversation with Islam; supported by coursework at General Theological Seminary, New York University, Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University, Hebrew Union College, City University of New York Graduate School, and supervision by Christian and Muslim ethicists.
Research languages: Arabic, German, Greek, Spanish.
Fellowship: Episcopal Church Foundation. |
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STM 1998 |
General Theological Seminary (New York City)
Thesis: Luther, Islam, and the Omnipotence of God: Divine Predeterminism and Human Free Will versus Divine Mercy and Divine Wrath |
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M. A. 1992 |
Hartford Seminary (Hartford, CT)
Concentration in Lay Ministry; coursework in Islamic Studies.
Major project: Religion & Society: Compassionate Action in Five Major Faith Traditions. |
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M. Mus. Ed. 1972 |
Lowell State College (now UMASS-Lowell) |
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B. Mus. 1969 |
Boston University (Boston, MA); magna cum laude |
RELATED PREPARATION
Clinical Pastoral Education, 1995
Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut Ministry Education and Exploration Program (1993-1995)
TEACHING COMPETENCE
The World's Religions; America's Religious Diversity; Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations; Religions of Abraham; Christian Theology and Ethics; Religion and Society; Critical Interpretation; Music.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE: UNIVERSITY AND SEMINARY
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2002-present |
Lecturer II, University of Michigan-Dearborn; principal course: Worldviews: A Survey of America's Religious Diversity |
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2005-present |
Adjunct Professor of Theology, Ecumenical Theological Seminary (Detroit, MI); principal course: Experiencing Religious Diversity |
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2010-present |
Adjunct Professor of Islam & Christian-Muslim Relations, Hartford Seminary (CT); courses: Religious Leadership in an Interfaith World (program coordinator; co-taught with Yehezkel Landau, Timur Yuskaev, David Roozen); The Christian Mosaic: an introduction to Christianity for Muslim leaders; Renewal of Muslim Theology: "A Common Word" and the Theology of Compassion (co-taught with Ingrid Mattson). |
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2008-2010 |
Adjunct Professor, New York Theological Seminary Doctor of Ministry Program, Multi-Faith Track; principal courses: Culture, Identity, and Leadership; Critical Interpretation. |
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2001-2009 |
Adjunct Professor, General Theological Seminary (NYC); principal courses: Christian-Muslim Relations; Abrahamic Dialogue; Understanding America‟s Religious Diversity; Art, Culture, and the City. |
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2000-2008 |
Adjunct Professor of Theology, Fordham University (New York, NY); principal courses: Faith & Critical Reason; Classic Islamic Texts; Sacred Texts of the Middle East |
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2008 |
Lecturer, College of Saint Elizabeth (Morristown, NJ) Center for Theological and Spiritual Development Summer Institute; principal course: Faith in the Neighborhood |
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2004 |
Adjunct Professor, Mercer School of Theology (Garden City, NY); principal course: Christian Ministry in Multi-religious America |
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2003 |
Visiting Professor, School of Theology of the University of the South (Sewanee, TN); principal course: Anglican Responses to Islam: Intersections, Understandings, Possibilities. |
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2001 |
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Humanities, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (NYC); principal course: World Religions |
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1998-2003; 2009 |
Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies, St. Francis College (Brooklyn, NY); principal courses: World Religions; The Christian Tradition; Islam |
RELATED EXPERIENCE
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2009 |
Field Education Supervisor, Princeton Theological Seminary; completed necessary supervisory training; arranged and oversaw a varied interreligious field work experience for a PTS student |
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2008-present |
Evaluator (Adjunct Professor), Empire State College (NY) for students seeking life-experience credit in religion (and related fields) and music. |
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2004-present |
Lecturer, St Peter's Lutheran Church (NYC) Adult Forum: three- to five-week series on Christian theology or interreligious understanding, two or three times annually, on topics such as Mystery & Mysticism; Image & Imagination (theology and visual art); The Beauty of the Infinite; Concepts of God; Rituals of Faith. |
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2004-2007 |
Faculty (part-time), The Collegiate School (NYC); principal course: World Religions (grade 7). |
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2000-2001 |
Graduate Assistant in Systematic Theology and Ethics, General Theological Seminary (NYC); duties included presentation of new material (Ethics); grading papers and tests (Theology); leading discussions and tutoring (both). |
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2000-2008 |
Adjunct Professor of Theology, Fordham University (New York, NY); principal courses: Faith & Critical Reason; Classic Islamic Texts; Sacred Texts of the Middle East |
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1998-2000 |
Tutor, General Theological Seminary; teaching-team for required M. Div. seminar; duties included evaluation of essays, leading small-group discussions, one-on-one work with and formal evaluation of students. |
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1977-1996 |
Faculty, Pomfret School (Pomfret, CT); Music Director and Chapel Organist (1977-96); Religion instructor (1990-96); Religion Department chair (1993-96); principal courses: World Religions, Ethics, Religion & Society, Bible; other responsibilities equal to Assistant Chaplain in all ways but title. |
ASSOCIATED EXPERIENCE
Conference Coordinator
Hidden In Plain Sight: Pleasures, Policy, and Politics of Muslim Women and Their Bodies, a project of Muslim Women's Institute for Research and Development (NYC), held by The Interchurch Center (NYC) October 2010: advised all aspects of planning; moderator for proceedings at.
Islam in Turkey Today, Columbia University Middle East Institute, November 2007: advised all aspects of planning an international conference with multiple sponsors; devised schedule; secured all panelists and moderators; supervised event; participated as a moderator and panelist.
Women in Religion in the 21st Century, The Interchurch Center (NYC), October 2006: advised all aspects of planning, particularly with regard to multireligious issues; hired all panelists; devised schedule; edited proceedings for publication; served as event MC.
Interreligious Relations Consultant
Auburn Seminary Center for Multifaith Education (since 1999; currently; coordination, co-facilitation of Multifaith Education Seminar for seminary professors; researcher for ongoing national study of multi-faith education in US institutions which train religious leaders); Senior Fellow, 2011.
Unity Productions Foundation (DC) (Coordinator: curriculum development for NEH-funded project Dialogue in the Humanities)
Religions For Peace - USA (NYC) (Interim Director, September 2008-August 2009; intermittent consultant in prior years)
The Tanenbaum Center for Inter-religious Understanding (2003-2009; advisor for curriculum development and other projects)
La Guardia Community College Difficult Dialogues Project (Long Island City, NY) (2007; religious diversity lecture-tour for faculty)
Trinity Church/St. Paul's Chapel (NYC) (adult forum presenter, Lent 2004; coordination of multireligious participation in 9/11/06 memorial service and in Trinity Institute 2008; Spa for the Soul 2010)
Network of Inter Faith Concerns of the Anglican Communion (since 2003; general staff assistance)
Calhoun School (NYC) (2007-2008; religious diversity issues)
The Interchurch Center (NYC) Office of the President & Executive Director (2005-2007; conference coordination and follow-up, materials development, coordination of collaboration with Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, strategic planning)
New York Disaster Interfaith Services (2004-2006; board of directors development; data-base development)
The Neighbor-Faith Project (2003-2005; parish-based interreligious education)
Beginning With Children Foundation (2003-2005) (Institutional Review Board ethicist with regard to educational research projects)
Interfaith Education Initiative, a project of the national Episcopal Church (2002, 2004; website, educational materials development; workshops)
The Dialogue Project (Brooklyn, NY) (since 2001; currently, advisory council for national Annual Interfaith Teach-In)
The Episcopal Church Office of Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations and other national offices (since 1999; consultation; workshops; writing)
National Council of the Churches of Christ Interfaith Office (1997-2008; materials development, strategic planning, grant-writing)
Church Work Abroad
Participant, Tenth Building Bridges Seminar, a gathering of Muslim and Christian scholars selected and convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Doha, Qatar (2011)
Participant, International Consultation of the Anglican Communion Network of Interfaith Concerns, Bangalore, India (2002)
Research, education, public speaking in Uganda at the invitation of the Church of Uganda Provincial Education Office (1998)
Deployment to St. James American Church, Florence, Italy through the Episcopal Church's Volunteers For Mission program (1988-89)
Papers; Presentations
2010 G20 Dialogue Among Civilizations, Cultures, and Religions (Iksan, Korea) Address: "Interreligious Relations: History, Obstacles, Opportunities"
2010 American Islamic College (Chicago): Lecture: "Common Words Between Us" 2010 Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago Global Conversation Luncheon Series: Lecture: "Appreciative Conversation: Nine Years of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Building Bridges Seminar"
2010 St James Cathedral (Chicago): Guest Preacher: Feast of the Holy Cross
2010 Episcopal Church Women (Diocese of Chicago) Fall Forum: Lecture: "Common Words Between Us: Christians and Muslims"
2010 Niagara Foundation (Chicago) Evening Lecture Series: Lecture: "Religious Diversity and Interdependence: Obstacles and Opportunities for People of Faith"
2010 Marble Collegiate Church (NYC): Adult Education Series Lectures: "Faith Meets Action: Becoming the Body of Christ"; "Loving Our Neighbors: A Theology of Interreligious Understanding"
2010 St John's Cathedral (Jacksonville, FL): Annual Retreat Weekend Workshop: "Being the Body of Christ"; "Being a Cathedral"
2010 Trinity Church Wall Street (NYC): Spa for the Soul Quiet Meditation Series Full Day Workshop: "Image & Imagination: Interreligious Understanding and the Visual Arts"
2009 The Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding of Sacred Heart University Colleagues in Dialogue: Forgiveness in a Post-Holocaust World (NYC) Lecture: "For the Sake of Peace and Gladness: Practices of Forgiveness in the Christian and Jewish Traditions"
2009 National Workshop on Christian Unity (Phoenix) Lecture: "Common Words Among Christians and Muslims: Christian Response: Limits and Possibilities"
2007 New York University Muslim Student Center (NYC) Panelist: "Addressing Islamophobia"
2007 La Guardia Community College, Long Island City, NY Lecture-tour: "The Religious Diversity of Flushing, NY
2007 Abraham's Table Dialogue, Turkish Cultural Center (NYC) Paper: "The Concept of Neighborliness in Christianity"
2006 International Nursi Studies Conference on Resurrection and Theodicy, Istanbul, Turkey Paper: "La Siyyama: Nursi's Treatise on al-Hashr in Mathnawi al-Nuriye"
2006 North American Maritime Ministry Association Annual Meeting, Newark, NJ Address: "Chaplains Working in Unity Amidst Diversity: Christian Openheartedness Toward Religious Difference"
2005 North American Academy of Ecumenists Annual Meeting, Flushing, NY Lecture-tour: "The Religious Diversity of Queens, NY"
2005 Spirituality Conference of the Istanbul Foundation for Islamic Science and Culture, Istanbul, Turkey Paper: "The Spirit of Worship and the Result of Sincere Belief: Nursi's Mathnawi al-'Arabi al-Nuri as a handbook for the contemplative life"
2005 Conference, "Treasure in a Garden: Christian Witness in a Multi-Faith Land," Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago Paper: "Religious Diversity and Interdependence: Obstacles and Opportunities for People of Faith: Response to Charles Kimball"
2004 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX ("Additional Meeting") Paper: "The Marrow of Worship and Said Nursi's Moral Vision: A consideration of supplication in the Risale-i Nur"
2002 Columbia University Seminar on Studies in Religion, NYC Paper: "The Concept of Ihsan—the doing of the beautiful"
2002 North American Academy of Ecumenists Annual Meeting, Lansdowne, VA Paper: "Professing Christ in a Religiously Plural Society: Ecclesial Implications from an Anglican Point of View"
2002 Anglican Society Annual Meeting, NYC Paper: "Anglicanism and Islam: Then and Now"
2002 Episcopal Church Foundation Fellows Forum, Philadelphia Paper: "Commonweal, Accountability, and Christian-Muslim Relations in Light of September 11, 2001"
2000 Fifth International Symposium on Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Istanbul, Turkey Paper: "The Marrow of Worship and Said Nursi's Moral Vision: A consideration of supplication in the Risale-i Nur in light of the narrative ethics paradigm of James William McClendon Jr."
2000 Center for Jewish-Christian Studies and Relations, NYC Paper: "The Marrow of Worship: Islam and Prayers of Supplication"
1998 Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogue of the National Conference of Community and Justice - Greater New York Region, NYC Paper: "Heaven, Hell, and Hope: Toward an Eschatological Theology for Interfaith Dialogue" Related Presentations 1999 - Church venues, CT, FL, IL, MI, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, TN, UK Workshops, sermons, lectures: America's Religious Diversity; Abrahamic Issues; Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations; Mysticism; other interfaith topics (including intersections between the arts and interfaith concerns)<
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Faith in the Neighborhood: Loss (Seabury, 2007)
Faith in the Neighborhood: Praying: Rituals of Faith (Seabury, 2006)
Faith in the Neighborhood: Belonging (Seabury, 2005)
An Introduction to Your Neighbors' Religions (Long Island Multi-Faith Forum and Auburn Seminary, 1998)
Religion and Society: The Role of Compassion, Selfless Service, and Social Action in Five World Faiths (Council for Religion in Independent Schools, 1998).
Chapters
"La Siyyama: Nursi's Treatise on al-Hashr in Mathnawi al-Nuriye," in Theodicy and Justice in Islamic Thought: The Case of Said Nursi, edited by Ibrahim Abu-Rabi and Bilal Kuspinar (Ashgate, 2010)
"The Spirit of Worship and the Result of Sincere Belief: Nursi's Mathnawi al-'Arabi al-Nuri as a handbook for the contemplative life," in Islamic Spirituality in the Modern World: Spiritual Dimensions of Said Nursi's Risale-I-Nur, edited by Ibrahim Abu-Rabi" (SUNY Press, 2008)
"The University of Michigan-Dearborn Worldviews Seminar," co-authored with Claude F. Jacobs, Ph.D., in Teaching Religion and Healing, edited by Linda Barnes (Oxford University Press, 2006)
"The Marrow of Worship and the Moral Vision: Said Nursi and Supplication," in Islam at the Crossroad: On the Life and Thought of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, edited by Ibrahim Abu-Rabi" (SUNY Press, 2003)
Articles
"Vitriol and Virtue: Reflections on US Christian-Muslim relations during the summer of 2010" in Christian-Muslim Digest: November 2010.
Appreciative Conversation: The Archbishop of Canterbury's "Building Bridges" Seminars (http://repository.berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/Mosher-Building-Bridges-Article.pdf. Last accessed: 25 May 2010)
Renewing Our Pledge: Reflections on A Common Word Between Us and You from The Episcopal Church, Third Sunday in Lent (24 February) 2008 (a document promulgated by the Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations Office of The Episcopal Church)
"Models and Methods of Continuing Education for Christian Ministry in the Religiously Plural Context" in Teaching Theology & Religion, 9:2 (April 2006)
"It's Not Just One Thing! Reflections on Christian-Muslims Relations in Post-9/11 New York" in Interreligious Insight 3:4 (October 2005)
Reviews
For The Anglican Theological Review (July 2007): Kabbalah: A Brief Introduction for Christians by Tamar Frankiel (Jewish Lights, 2006).
For Reviews in Theology and Religion 13:4 (September 2006): Aspects of Islam by Ron Geaves (Georgetown University Press, 2005).
For Religious Studies Review 32:2 (April 2006): Whose Holy City? Jerusalem And The Future Of Peace In The Middle East, by Colin Chapman. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2005.
For Religious Studies Review 30:2 & 3 (April & July 2004): Islam In Context: Past, Present, and Future, by Peter G. Riddell and Peter Cotterell (Baker Academic, 2003).
For Interreligious Insight 1:2 (April 2003): The Conference of the Birds: The Selected Sufi Poetry of Farid ud-Din Attar (Frances Lincoln, 2002).
TRAVEL ABROAD
Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, England, France, Germany (East & West), Korea, India, Israel & West Bank, Italy, Poland, Portugal, USSR, Luxembourg, Morocco, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Turkey, Uganda.
MEMBERSHIP
American Academy of Religion
Society of Christian Ethics
REFERENCES
Available upon request
