Previously a Humanist chaplain at Harvard and Yale, Stedman now a Sabo Fellow
(MINNEAPOLIS) — Interfaith activist and author Chris Stedman 鈥�08 joins Augsburg College as a fellow of the where he will facilitate and build new community partnerships for non-religious and interfaith civic engagement. Stedman also will consult on the development of interfaith engagement programs at Augsburg.
鈥淲e are excited to welcome Chris back to Augsburg where his interfaith work began nearly a decade ago as an undergraduate,鈥� said Augsburg College President Paul Pribbenow. 鈥淐hris returns to us a successful author and a national leader and thinker on the Humanist movement. His work as a Sabo Fellow is testament to our commitment to interfaith dialogue so needed in our ever-diversifying society.鈥�
Stedman鈥檚 work with the Sabo Center comes at an important time in Minnesota given the state鈥檚 rapidly increasing diversity of faiths combined with the growing number of 鈥渘ones,鈥� also known as religiously unaffiliated, and the nonreligious. According to Pew Research Center, 23 percent of adults as of 2015 identified as 鈥渘ones.鈥� Continue reading “Interfaith activist Chris Stedman 鈥�08 returns to Augsburg”