BLUFFTON, Ohio—Julia Shearson, executive director of the Cleveland Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)-Ohio, will address “Being Muslim in Post 9/11 America” at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, in Bluffton University’s Founders Hall. Her presentation is free and open to the public.
Shearson will discuss her conversion from Catholicism to Islam and the challenging national climate faced by American Muslims.
Julia Shearson, executive director of the Cleveland Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)-Ohio, will address “Being Muslim in Post 9/11 America” at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, in Bluffton University’s Founders Hall. Her presentation is free and open to the public.
Shearson will discuss her conversion from Catholicism to Islam and the challenging national climate faced by American Muslims.
“Proving God’s Will” will be Justin Romine’s topic for a Nov. 12 forum during Spiritual Life Week at Bluffton University. Free and open to the public, his presentation will begin at 11 a.m. in Founders Hall.
Romine, from Keystone, S.D., is summer internship director for the Keystone Project, a discipleship-training and global missions network. His Bluffton talk will examine the conflict between being conformed to the world and being transformed by the renewing of the mind, as developed in Romans 12:1-2.
Dr. Martina Cucchiara, an assistant professor of history at Bluffton University, will explore the diary of a Jewish German in Nazi Germany during a campus colloquium Nov. 8.
Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall will be the site of the 4 p.m. presentation, which is titled “‘I am suffocating on the evil that engulfs me’: The Diary of Erna Becker-Kohen, 1937-1963.” The event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Crystal Sellers Battle, director of the Bluffton University Gospel Choir, directs the choir and Hesston (Kan.) College’s Bel Canto Singers and Chorale in a combined performance during “A Celebration of Gospel: Music and Worship in the African-American Tradition” Oct. 27 at Hesston Mennonite Church.
The concert featured each individual choir as well as the combined choir with guest composer, arranger and gospel historian Dr. Raymond Wise of Columbus, Ohio.
