Columbia Student Chosen for FASPE Ethics Fellowship
August 10, 2019
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Columbia Student Chosen for FASPE Ethics Fellowship
Columbia Theological Seminary student Emily Morrell was one of 14 seminary and divinity school students, and early-career clergy, chosen for the 2019 Seminary Program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) to participate in a...
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