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The Ten Sayings Guest Speaker Profiles Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid is founding Chairman of Sound Vision Foundation, the leading producer of educational content on Islam and Muslims. He is also executive producer of the daily Radio Islam talk show on WCEV 1450 AM in Chicago. He is currently Chairman of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, a federation of mosques serving 400,000 Muslims in greater Chicago. Imam Mujahid serves as Vice Chair of the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religious, the premiere interfaith organization in the world and serves at the steering committee of the Midwest coalition for Human Rights. As a member of the Independent Task Force of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Imam Mujahid has helped develop proposals on the civic and political integration of Muslim Americans in America. He also serves at the Faith Advisory Council of the Democratic National Committee which consists of about 60 Christian leaders, imams and rabbis. Imam Mujahid has authored more than 400 articles and essays on religion, civil rights and public policy. His book, Conversion to Islam: Untouchables Strategy for Protest in India, was the winner of an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year Award by the American Library Association in 1990. He also serves as a volunteer imam in the Chicago area, giving Friday sermons in the Downtown Islamic Center, Rush Hospital and other mosques. Torey Malatia As president and general manager, Torey Malatia oversees all day-to-day operations and programming and production decisions at Chicago Public Radio. Mr. Malatia joined the staff of Chicago Public Radio in July 1993 as vice president of programming and was soon appointed station manager in 1995. In 1996, he became president and general manager. In 2001, he was inducted into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame as the first not-for-profit representative to receive this honor. He has also received the 2003 Public Radio International (PRI) Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Under his leadership, Chicago Public Radio has developed its most significant national programs including The Third Coast International Audio Festival, Sound Opinions, and Wait, Wait. . . Don’t Tell Me!. He co-founded, with Ira Glass, This American Life, a weekly radio series for which they jointly received a George Foster Peabody Award. In addition he has created numerous award-winning local programs, among them Metropolis, Odyssey and Eight Forty-Eight. Mr. Malatia has an M.A. and B.A. in English Literature from Arizona State University. Mr. Malatia began his career in radio in 1972 as a part-time announcer for former commercial classical station KHEP-FM in Phoenix. Born and reared in Oak Park, Illinois, Mr. Malatia resides in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago where he and his wife, artist Elizabeth Carson Manley, are active in their church, St. Margaret of Scotland Episcopal Church. David Pickens The son of a Chicago Public School teacher who is also a renowned jazz musician, David W. Pickens has served as the Deputy Director of the Chicago Public Schools for seven years. He is a Golden Apple finalist, a LAUNCH fellow and graduate of Leadership of Greater Chicago. Mr. Pickens earned his B.A. at University of Illinois at Chicago and his M.A. at Roosevelt University. He served briefly ad an officer in the U.S. Army before he devoted himself to teaching urban Chicago students. He served as an assistant principal before joining Arne Duncan’s administration. Mr. Pickens lives in Hyde Park with his wife Nan and children Olivia and Selden, and has been a member of Hyde Park Union Church since childhood. Rob Warden Center on Wrongful Convictions Executive Director Rob Warden is an award winning legal affairs journalist who, as editor and publisher of Chicago Lawyer magazine during the 1980's exposed more than a score of wrongful convictions in Illinois, including cases in which six innocent men had been sentenced to death. Before founding Chicago Lawyer in 1978, Mr. Warden was an investigative reporter, foreign correspondent, and editor at the Chicago Daily News. Since the Chicago Lawyer changed ownership in 1989, Mr. Warden has worked as a political issues consultant, executive officer of the Cook County State’s Attorney's Office, and consultant to various law firms and the litigation department of General Electric Medical Systems. Mr. Warden is the author or co-author of hundreds of articles and five books, including two books about wrongful convictions written in collaboration with Northwestern University Journalism Professor David Protess, A Promise of Justice and Gone in the Night. Mr. Warden has won more than 50 journalism awards, including the Medill School of Journalism’s John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism, two American Civil Liberties Union James McGuire Awards, five Peter Lisagor Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Norval Morris Award from the Illinois Academy of Criminology. Rabbi Arnold Wolf "Knowing isn't everything; it is, profoundly, the only thing," wrote Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf. To that end, he has devoted his life to helping children and adults to learn about Judaism and to practice what it teaches us. He has been called "our generation's incomparable instance of the prophet become rabbi." Born in the city, he studied at the University of Chicago and the University of Cincinnati, and was ordained by the Hebrew Union College where he studied with Abraham Joshua Heschel. Rabbi Wolf has taught at Yale, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the University of Chicago, and Loyola Marymount University. Unfinished Rabbi, a selection of his writings, was published in 1998. He has also written What Is Man? and Challenge to Confirmands and has edited Rediscovering Judaism and Jewish Spiritual Jounreys. Rabbi Wolf is the Rabbi Emeritus of KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation in Hyde Park, where he has been rabbi since 1981. Rev. Dr. Deborah Mullen Deborah F. Mullen joined the faculty of McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois in 1989 asAssociate Dean of Masters Programs for Experiential Education and Field Studies. She was appointed Assistant Professor of Ministry and Historical Studies in 1993. In 1996, she was elected Dean of Masters Level Programs, the administrative post she currently holds. In 2003, she was promoted to Associate Professor of Ministry and Historical Studies. She is the Director of the Center for African American Ministries and Black Church Studies. Prior to her appointments at McCormick, Rev. Mullen served in parish ministry and in college administration in Rochester, NY. Rev. Mullen represented the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. on the Faith and Order Commission of the National Council of Churches of Christ (NCCC) from 1988 to 2000. She has served the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. in a variety of national leadership roles and internationally at ecumenical gatherings sponsored by the World Council of Churches. Among her published works are articles and book chapters found in Shaping Beloved Community: Multicultural Theological Education, the Presbyterian Survey, The Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society, Renewing the Vision, Out of the Ashes, and Ending Racism in the Church. Deborah was also co-editor of a collection published by the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. entitled Ordination: Past, Present, and Future. Makoto Fujimura Makoto Fujimura was born in 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts. Educated bi-culturally between the US and Japan, Fujimura graduated from Bucknell University in 1983, and received an M.F.A. from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music with a Japanese Governmental Scholarship in 1989. His thesis painting was purchased by the university and he was invited to study in the Japanese Painting Doctorate program, a first for an outsider to this prestigious traditional program. It was during the six and a half years of studying in Japan that Fujimura began to assimilate the combinations of abstract expressionism explored in the US with the traditional Japanese art of Nihonga. Upon his return to the US, he began to exhibit his paintings in New York City, while continuing to show in Tokyo, and was honored in 1992 as the youngest artist ever to have had a piece acquired by Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Rev. Dr. Aidsand Wright-Riggins III Since August 1991, the Rev. Dr. Aidsand Wright-Riggins III has served as the executive director of National Ministries. Additionally, he is chief executive officer of Judson Press, the publishing arm of American Baptist Churches USA. His passion has led National Ministries to commitments of encouraging discipleship, engaging in mission and transforming the soul of a nation. He says, "We are to be an incarnate community that affirms that Jesus Christ is Lord. In the midst of our cultural, theological, racial and ethnic diversity, we want to exhibit unity as a household of faith." Preaching the Gospel, establishing churches, making disciples and ministering to people in need are fundamental to the heritage and charter goals of American Baptist home mission. For Wright-Riggins, these ministries are essential to following Christ. He describes the full scope of National Ministries' mission as including evangelism and emancipation, spiritual formation and social justice, church planting and community transformation. Rev. Dr. Wright-Riggins is married to the Rev. Betty Wright-Riggins, a member services representative for The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board. He is a member of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Penllyn, Pa., where he is active in men’s ministries. He enjoys jazz, gospel and "old school R&B." Rev. Christopher Coble Christopher Coble is a Program Director in the Religion Division of the Lilly Endowment. He works with a variety of organizations in designing and implementing efforts to identify and call a new generation of talented pastoral leaders for congregations and parishes. Other responsibilities include overseeing several projects focused on the faith formation of children and youth. Ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Rev. Coble has served congregations in Indiana, North Carolina, Iowa, and Massachusetts. He earned a doctorate in American religious history from Harvard University, completing a dissertation that examined the early history of the Christian Endeavor movement (the forerunner of youth groups in churches). The work focused on the problem of young people dropping out of churches at the end of the 19th century, explored changing social and theological understandings of youth, and traced shifts in Protestant approaches to the religious formation. He and his wife, Cindy, spend their free time negotiating with their two daughters, Rebekah (16) and Hannah (13). Deborah Weaver Deborah Weaver is a psychotherapist with Genesis Therapy Center, a non-profit counseling organization with multiple offices serving the Chicago metro area, including an office in Hyde Park Union Church. In this capacity, she provides therapy for individuals, couples and families, and supervises students in Genesis’s clinical training program. Ms. Weaver’s areas of expertise include grief and bereavement, trauma and recovery, and spiritual issues in therapy. Her work is informed by her academic and professional training as a social worker; she also holds a Master of Divinity degree from the Iliff School of Theology. Deborah and her husband, Dan Arnold, have two children, Katy and Benjamin.
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