Religious Studies Program and Southwest Institute on Religion and Civil Society launch year-long series of public events

The UNM Religious Studies Program and Southwest Institute on Religion and Civil Society launch a year-long series of public events titled Nexus: Religion in the Public University.

The series will involve nationally-prominent speakers on issues of religion in the public arena, along with moderated discussions between local religious clergy and university faculty.

The first speaker, on Tuesday, Sept. 20 at noon in the SUB Ballroom, will be Dr. Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York, who will present, "Failure of Environmentalism -- and What Religious Congregations Can Do About It."

For more information visit, http://www.unm.edu/~religion and click on upcoming events.

Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920