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Daniel Schafer

OCCUPATION: Professor of History at Belmont University
FAMILY: Married to Melissa Rose.  Children: Jacob is a freshman in College
YEARS AT THE CATHEDRAL: 15 years

CHURCH ACTIVITIES: Membership Care Cluster, 1998-2000
Co-chair, Nurture Committee, 1998-2000
Adult Education Committee, 2000-02
Sixth-grade Sunday school teacher, 2000-03
Youth Curriculum Committee, 2004-05
Seventh-grade Sunday school teacher, 2004-06
Youth Curriculum Revision Committee, summer 2007
Interfaith Dialogue, 2007-08
Lector since 2004
Chalice bearer since 2008
 
COMMUNITY INTERESTS: Faculty advisor of the Amnesty International chapter at Belmont University (since 2000)
Founding member of Tennesseans Against Genocide and member of its Board of Directors (2005)
Member of the Advisory Board for the Society of Universal Dialogue (since 2010)
Leader of Belmont study abroad programs to Eastern Europe (1998, 2002), China (2000, 2004), and Turkey (2011). I am currently organizing another student trip to Turkey for May 2012. 
 
OTHER: I am interested in working in the areas of education, reconciliation ministries, and interfaith dialogue, particularly with Nashville’s Muslim and Jewish communities. There are several interfaith dialogue initiatives underway in Nashville, and I believe that Christ Church Cathedral can and should develop a more visible institutional presence in these activities.
 

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