Annie Rawlings

by Annie Rawlings, Executive Director

ANNIE RAWLINGS, DIRECTOR OF THE BECK INSTITUTE ON POVERTY AND RELIGION AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, PREACHED MOVINGLY ABOUT CONNECTING WITH THE POOR AND THEN DESCRIBED THE INCREASING CHALLENGES OF ECONOMIC DIVISION TO THE MISSION OF RECONCILIATION IN C-67.

--DR.

Ann Rawlings, Director, Bertram Beck Institute on Economics, Fordham Univ., NYC.

Annie RawlingsAnnie Rawlings has been the Director of the Bertram M. Beck Institute on Religion and Poverty at Fordham University since September 1999.The Beck Institute is a multi-faith organization whose mission is to serve as an education and information resource to religious leaders and congregations for faith-based engagement on public and private social policies that will reduce poverty in the United States.Annie is the former Executive Director of A Partnership of Faith in New York City - an organization of prominent Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and Protestant clergy - where she designed and produced events for New York City clergy and laity on a variety of issues, including public education, the police, and the disappearing middle class.Annie is an elder at Jan Hus Presbyterian Church in Manhattan where she is co-chair of the Global Concerns committee.With other church members she traveled to Haiti in 2001; and in 2000 participated in a political camp on globalization at the Agape Ecumenical Center in Northern Italy.The Global Concerns Committee is currently leading the formation of the East Side Haiti Solidarity Network, a consortium of churches working together on education and advocacy projects relative to Haiti.Annie received her Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Among the featured speakers and their topics: * Annie Rawlings, director of the Bertram Beck Institute on Religion and Poverty at Fordham University in New York City: "Indifferent to Poverty ... Evades Responsibility in Economic Affairs?"* The Rev. Donald Shriver, president emeritus and professor of ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York City: "Reconciliation, Forgiveness and Peace: 'Even at Risk to National Security?'"

* The Rev. Curtis Jones, pastor of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in Baltimore: "Empowerment, Self-Determination, Cultural Identity versus Racism"