{"id":53375,"date":"2023-01-20T20:52:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T20:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/?page_id=53375"},"modified":"2026-03-20T17:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:38:42","slug":"interfaith-spring-symposium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/about\/interfaith-spring-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Interfaith Spring Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Augsburg University’s Interfaith Symposium is an annual invitation to build community, foster collaboration, and create a more caring world through learning about religious\/spiritual\/worldview diversity, participating in enriching dialogue, and networking with exceptional interfaith leaders. As the most ethnically diverse campus in the Midwest, Augsburg University embraces students with a variety of religious beliefs and worldviews. Join us for this opportunity to learn about building partnerships across differences and how to face the future with hope and determination.<\/p>\n

2026 Interfaith Symposium: Healing the Earth, healing ourselves<\/h2>\n

Wednesday, March 25, 2026
\n12:00 p.m.\u2013Keynote Speaker, Sateren Auditorium
\n1:00 p.m.\u2013Lunch, Hoversten Chapel
\nKeynote Speaker: Rev. Jen Bailey<\/p>\n

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\"\"Rev. Jen Bailey is an ordained minister and national leader in the multi-faith movement for interfaith understanding and justice. She currently serves as Executive Director of the Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund, a Nashville-based philanthropic foundation investing in the leadership of young people and the vitality of the natural environment. In this role, she is guiding the Fund through a bold, values-driven transformation toward liberation-oriented philanthropy that connects local action with systemic change.<\/p>\n

A national faith leader and local community builder, Rev. Bailey is also the Founder and Executive Director Emerita of Faith Matters Network, a Womanist-led organization equipping community organizers, faith leaders, and activists with resources for connection, spiritual sustainability, and accompaniment. Through her leadership at Faith Matters Network and as Learn more and register! a Co-Founder of The People\u2019s Supper, she has helped host more than 2,000 dinners across 135 communities nationwide, bringing people together to strengthen relationships across lines of difference and to heal the divides in our civic and spiritual life.<\/p>\n

Reverend Bailey\u2019s career has been anchored in service to the community and a commitment to justice. An Ashoka Fellow, Aspen Ideas Scholar, On Being Fellow, and Truman Scholar, Rev. Bailey earned degrees from Tufts University and Vanderbilt University Divinity School. An ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. Bailey also serves on the boards of The Fetzer Institute, Jessie Ball duPont Fund, and The Healing Trust.<\/p>\n

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