Rev. Steven Charleston - The Rt. Rev. Steven Charleston has retired as the president and dean of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA, having served 1999-2008.
The Rt. Rev. Steven Charleston has retired as President and Dean of Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the historic theological seminaries training both lay and ordained leadership for the church. A citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Bishop Charleston was born and raised in that state in a family that has had a long history of service in the Christian Native American community.
Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were ordained ministers of the Presbyterian Church, serving among the Choctaw People in rural Oklahoma. Charleston received his Bachelor's degree in Religion from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1971. His Masters of Divinity was from EDS in 1976. He holds two honorary doctorates, one from Alaska Pacific University and the other from his alma mater, Trinity College.
His vocation in the church has been extensive and varied. He was the national staff officer for Native American ministries in the Episcopal Church; he became the Director of the Dakota Leadership Program and developed alternative training models for indigenous laity and clergy on the many reservation communities of the Dakotas. Following this ministry, he became tenured professor in Systematic Theology at Luther-Northwestern Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and directed the creation of that school's cross-cultural studies program.
Charleston became diocesan bishop of Alaska and served in this capacity for many years before returning to New England to become chaplain of his college in Hartford. He also served as the Assistant Bishop of Connecticut.
Bishop Charleston is widely recognized as a leading proponent for justice issues and for spiritual renewal in the church in both the United States and Canada. He has been called "one of the best preachers in the Episcopal Church," leading worship services ranging from a revival style service in Texas to Lenten Services at Harvard. He is featured in Trinity Church Wall Street's video, Good News: A Congregational Resource for Reconciliation and in Every Voice Network's Via Media tool for evangelism. Bishop Charleston has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, BBC World News, BBC Today Programme, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, The O'Reilly Factor, and Hannity & Colmes as well as on WRKO radio in Boston.
Dr. Abdul Mawgoud Dardery - Dr. Abdul Mawgoud Dardery is the former Fulbright Scholar from Egypt.
He has 20 years of teaching in the US and in the Middle East.
i do repect your views regarding women, which are humanistic while you challenge them to be islamic. I welcome the thought that the humanistic approch be brought while dealing with issues of women. Unfortunatley, the ismalic world do not have the same approch as you do. Meanwhile you have been repating the 'muslim world' 'muslim prospective' while your debate on women. Muslims around the globe either do not think you are right or/and they have a totally different and opposite approch towards women (mother can be excluded).
This is one of those times when I wish the interviewer would just ask questions and let the guest fully answer the questions. we are not here to listen to the interviewer...
Yet another political forum in disguise. According to the guest, Islam is a religion of peace and Muslims are very kind and loving people, , yet one billion point 600 million cannot be at peace unless Israel is destroyed, and this is why they terrorise the world, what a joke. Pathetic interview!!
and you are simply stupid...a moron by any standard. Listening to points of view takes intelligence. there is no bucket large enough to hold 1.6 billion people--if there was such a consensus they would have ended war and hunger years ago.