Jay Phillips Center Events

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Meet You at the Crossroads: A Salon Concert

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Stephen B. Humphrey Theater, Saint John’s University

Acclaimed cross-cultural concert blends Black gospel-style music and Somali blues featuring JD Steele leading the youth choir and Ahmed Yusuf presenting pre-civil war Somali music and poetry. [...]

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Exploring Hizmet Values

4:30 PM Quad 346, SJU

What can a movement rooted in Islamic values teach us about service, dialogue, and building bridges across faiths and cultures? Hizmet, a transnational initiative inspired by Islamic teachings, emphasizes education, humanitarian service, and interfaith cooperation [...]

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Different Stories, Different Genres, Different Gods

4:30 PM Quad 264, Saint John’s University

This talk will not only draw on Dr. Goldberg’s forthcoming Oxford University Press book,The Bible’s Gods: The Nonexistent One True God of Scripture, it will also make use of his earlier work, Jews and Christians, Getting Our Stories Straight:The Exodus and the Passion-Resurrection. [...]

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