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Join us for a talk on Race, Religion and Redemption by Imam Shane Atkinson
Title: Race, Religion and Redemption
Speaker: Imam Shane Atkinson
Date: Sunday, October 28, 2018
Start Time: 11:00 a.m. (please arrive by 10:45 a.m.)
End Time: 12:30 p.m.
Location: Islamic Community Center of Phoenix
Address: 2515 W. ORANGEWOOD AVENUE, PHOENIX, AZ 85051
Registration: is FREE (but please register)
Open to families. All ages are welcome
About our speaker
Get to know our speaker for Sunday with a Scholar! Imam Shane Atkinson spent twenty years caring for patients as a Board Certified Orthotic and Prosthetic Practitioner. In 2011 he was awarded an Ijaza (Masters level traditional degree) to teach Islamic theology, law, and spirituality. Shane entered the Clinical Pastoral Education program at UNC Medical Center in 2015 as the first Muslim in their Chaplains Department. Shane completed a rigorous four units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), and now teaches in UNC’s CPE program as well as serving on their Professional Advisory Group. Since 2015, Shane has served as Associate Imam at As Salaam Islamic Center in Raleigh, North Carolina