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JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): Next a graduate university in California that brings Christians, Jews and Muslims together in the same classrooms to educate leaders for churches, synagogues and mosques.
Special correspondent Saul Gonzalez has the story.
A version of his report aired recently on the PBS program "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly."
SAUL GONZALEZ: With Korean-American drummers leading a line of professors, a new experiment in American religious education began this fall.
This was the opening of Southern California's Claremont Lincoln University, which describes itself as America's first inter-religious school of theology, one that will train pastors, rabbis and eventually Muslim imams, all on one campus.
The school's philosophy was captured in the opening remarks of Muslim-American religious scholar Najeeba Syeed-Miller, a professor at Claremont Lincoln.
NAJEEBA SYEED-MILLER, Claremont Lincoln University: The diversity of humankind is not a curse from God. It is a sign of God's creation, and the beauty of humanity is in our very differences.
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