Dr. Robert P. Sellers
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Dr. Robert
P. Sellers
About Dr. Robert P. Sellers:
Board Chair, Dr. Robert P. Sellers, is Professor of Theology at Hardin-Simmons University in Texas. His classes emphasize cross-cultural living, global Christianity, Two-Thirds World and liberation theologies, world religions, and interreligious dialogue. Frequently he takes university or seminary students on Study Abroad trips, and he has taught or made presentations on six continents. With Muslim and Baptist partners, Rob has planned three national retreats. As a Baptist Christian, he is a member of the Interfaith Relations and Collaboration Table of the National Council of Churches and the Interfaith Relations Commission of the Baptist World Alliance.
Interfaith Harmony
“ A more peaceful, just, and sustainable world ” —this worthy goal climaxes the mission statement of the Parliament of the World’s Religions. People around the globe desire these good and noble ends. Regardless of their...
Pluralism
by Dr. Robert P. Sellers Originally published in April 2001 in ChristianEthicsToday My wife and I spent almost a quarter century living among the peoples of Colombia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. For more than two...
Interreligious Relations›Interfaith Friendship
Originally published on July 20, 2009 in EthicsDaily We no longer need to travel internationally to encounter Muslims. In the United States, Muslims are living in our neighborhoods and working in our cities. Like our...
Of Cakes and Garbage Heaps was written by Dr. Robert P. Sellers, immediate past Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Parliament of the World’s Religion s , for the Religica blog. You can find the full blog post and many like it with our ally at Religica.com Suprapto and his wife Kartini were...
Parliament Blog
Dear Friends of the Parliament of the World's Religions, In ten days I will step down as Chair of the Parliament and bring to a close one of the most stimulating and profoundly meaningful involvements of my life. Working alongside a group of skilled, imaginative, collegial, and wise Trustees from...
This address was given live by Dr. Robert P. Sellers at the November 2nd plenary on "Faith and Interfaith: From Grassroots to the Globe" at the 2018 Parliament of the World's Religions in Toronto, Canada. Photo Credit: Steve Rohrbach Good evening, friends! Three years ago, in my acceptance speech...
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This article first appeared on EthicsDaily.com. It is used with permission. Sugar and spice, thunder and lightning, picnics and ants, ocean and waves, washers and dryers, children and laughter, Baptists and Muslims. If you were playing a categories game where you named pairs of items that naturally...
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Washington, D.C., February 5-7, 2018 It was my privilege to represent the Parliament of the World’s Religions at The Alliance of Virtues for the Common Good conference, convened recently in Washington, D.C. Hosted by the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and its...
During the Thanksgiving weekend, we visited extended family in Southeastern Oklahoma. Tucked into the moments of hearty laughter, warm hugs, delicious food, and exaggerated storytelling there was one experience that warrants serious reflection. It happened on Sunday, when we visited a rural Baptist...
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The President's Failure of Moral Leadership A Reflection by Dr. Robert P. Sellers George Washington, the "Father of our Nation" and first president, was said to be so truthful that he felt compelled to confess he had chopped down the cherry tree. Like millions of other American elementary school...
Inclusion. It’s more than the mere opposite of exclusion, although that is certainly true. The Latin prefixes “in-“ and “ex-“ do mean, alternately, “in, or indwelling” and “out of, or from.” The meaning of inclusion, however, is not simply to identify the ones who are now in but used to be out...
IT’S TIME FOR HOPE Dr. Robert P. Sellers, Chair, Parliament of the World’s Religions During these recent days of holiday celebration, the 19 th -century English novelist and social critic, Charles Dickens, has once again been remembered through the thousands of theatrical and literary presentations...
Emeritus trustee of the Parliament, Dr. Paul Eppinger, was recently honored at the 11th annual Golden Rule Awards Banquet sponsored by the Arizona Interfaith Movement. One thousand people gathered at the Mesa, Arizona, Convention Center April 7 to witness the presentation of the inaugural “Paul...
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It gives me great pleasure to introduce the new Executive Director of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, Dr. Larry Greenfield, former Trustee and Vice Chair of the Parliament, who previously served as Executive Minister of the American Baptist Churches of Metro Chicago. Dr. Greenfield, who...
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It was my privilege, on behalf of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, to attend the January 25-27 Marrakech Conference on the Rights of Religious Minorities in Predominantly Muslim Lands, conducted under the high patronage of His Majesty, King Mohammed VI, of Morocco. Three prominent leaders...
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Just a few days into January 2016 and my tenure as the new Chair of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, I want to wish you a productive and meaningful new year! I hope that wherever you live and whatever you do will give you many opportunities to contribute to our shared mission of promoting...
Every couple of years, I offer a course for both undergraduate and graduate students at my university entitled “Religion and Film.” This theology-prefix course, offered on the Friday nights and Saturday mornings of about half of the semester weekends, is identified by the following course...
A Hero of Mine All of us can look back over our lives as educators and identify people who have been significant role models. One of those persons for me has been Huston Smith. Perhaps the most important American scholar of religions for five decades, Smith was born the son of Methodist...
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Today we learned of a massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States. As we write this, the tragedy claimed the life of eleven people at the synagogue, and included bodily injury to many others as well as to first responders...
At the Parliament of the World’s Religions, we are alarmed by the decision of the President of the United States to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. We are distressed by the escalating tensions in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that this decision is causing. We entreat all parties to engage in...
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A Statement from Parliament of the World’s Religions Board Chair Dr. Robert P. Sellers and Executive Director Dr. Larry Greenfield In these times of extraordinary tension and danger, leaders—whether political, socio-cultural, or religious and whatever their nation, tradition, or spiritual path--...
Program Blog
A Statement from the Parliament of the World's Religions by David Hales, Chair of the Climate Action Task Force and Trustee of the Board Dr. Larry Greenfield, Executive Director Dr. Robert P. Sellers, Chair of the Board FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Parliament of the World’s Religions Condemns...
Hate has a history. And it extends into the present. Hate has a religious history. And that religious history also extends into the present. But hate has its challengers, too, both secular and sacred, both civic and religious, in the past and the present. Recent and current political campaigns and...
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