Theme: Living The Good Life

Religion, Human Flourishing, and The Common Good

Christ Church Christiana Hundred
505 E. Buck Road
Wilmington, Delaware, 19807
United States

Adeel Zeb

Chaplain.Director of Muslim Life

"Imam Adeel J. Zeb is a global educator and spiritual peacemaker. He is the Muslim Chaplain/Director of Muslim Life at Duke University. He previously served as the Muslim Chaplain/Imam at Wesleyan University, Trinity College, and American University. He is a graduate of the Master’s in Islamic Chaplaincy program at Hartford Seminary. He has holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Baylor University as well as a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Islamic Studies from Arees University in traditional Islamic sciences. He received certification in Tajweed Qur'anic studies from the Fatih and Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. He continues to study with scholars from top religious intuitions globally. He is the Co-Founder of DEEN: The Foundation for Muslim Campus Life. He has over 10 years of experience in Muslim-American public service. He served as a two-time congressional staffer. He has spoken internationally at Islamic centers, universities, hospitals, and Muslim conferenc

Larycia Hawkins

Visiting Faculty Fellow

Dr. Larycia Hawkins is a nationally recognized scholar, speaker, and activist. In a December 10, 2015, Facebook post, she declared her intention to don a hijab in solidarity with Muslim sisters as an act of Christian Advent devotion. The post initiated a national and international conversation about the nature of God and the possibilities for multi-faith solidarity in a time where Islamaphobia, xenophobia, and racism are as, if not more, prolific as any time in history. Dr. Hawkins’s publications and research engage the intersection of race/ethnicity, religion, and politics. Her writing, speaking, teaching, and scholarship are squarely animated by a conviction that political science should be relevant to the real world. Thus, the perennial questions that plague our polity are the questions that plague her: What does it look like to live out the stated constitutional commitment to justice? What does it mean to transcend theoretical solidarity with the oppressed?

Miroslav Volf

Professor/ Theology

Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and Founder and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He has written or edited over 15 books and over 70 scholarly articles on subjects ranging from the possibility of doing one’s work “in the Spirit” to the relevance of theology in the life of the everyday churchgoer to the possibility of actually loving your enemies. His most significant books include Exclusion and Embrace (1996; winner of Grawemeyer Award in Religion, and one of Christianity Today’s 100 most important religious books of the 20th century); After Our Likeness (1998) in which he explores the Trinitarian nature of ecclesial community; Allah: A Christian Response (2011), whether Muslims and Christians have a common God; and A Public Faith: On How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good (2011). His most recent book, Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World was released in January 2016.