[Alumni-chat] Fwd: letter to community from Al Denman

[Steven Duffy]

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		Monday, November 26, 2007 10:06:42 AM
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From:		Kathleen Carr
Donna and Al Denman <adenman at yellowsprings.com>
Subject:	 letter to community from Al Denman
To:		faculty
College Staff
emeritus
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Dear Community,

I would like to invite interested persons to a quite extraordinary
event at the Antioch Inn, Monday, December 3, 7:00.

This semester, 17 Antioch College students have been reading the
entire Bible - including the books Protestants normally leave out,
the Apocrypha - and the entire Qur'an.

That's almost one out of ten Antioch students, buried in the
study of the inspired sources of Judaism, Christianity and Islam for
three months.  That doesn't quite fit the prevailing image of Antioch
students.

Coming from highly varied backgrounds, they have various reasons for
doing this study.  One thing they have in common.  They want to come
to their own understanding of these two sacred scriptures that have
been - and doubtless will continue to be - profoundly influential to
countless millions,  personally, religiously and politically, for
centuries.

Two devout Muslims and a committed Jew, who have been locked in
dialogue for nearly three years, using Arabic and Hebrew texts, will
draw us, and you, our invited guests, into a discussion of what they
now understand to be the most important religious issues for the 21
Century.

Dialogue initiators will be Ramzieh and Wa'el Azmeh, both physicians
in Dayton and founding members of the new mosque in Miamisburg, and
Eric Friedland, Professor of Judaic Studies, emeritus, in the area
universities, including Antioch College.

Please join us.

Al Denman,  
Antioch College Pastor (1965-73), and Professor of  
Philosophy of Law and Religion, emeritus.