This seminar will address the role of women in Islam. Questions that will be looked at are:  Is this role based on religion or is it a cultural role  with a religious foundation? Does  the role of women in Islam differ from the role of women in Christianity; if so how? Does this role change when a Muslim woman accepts Jesus as her Lord and Savior?

The Ethics of Slavery in the Bible and the Qur'an - Steve Schlichter 

Does the Old Testament promote slavery? Does the Quran? Does the New Testament miss an opportunity to condemn slavery? We will look at the practice of both Ancient Near East and Roman slavery and then walk through Biblical passages that deal with the subject. Next, we will take the same objective standards and apply them to the Quran. How does the Quran measure up? In the Bible, Can moral blind spots be detected that prove a human origin? No. In the Qur'an? Yes. A new brand of popularized atheism calls into question the ethics of the God of the Old Testament but generally extends a pass to the Qur'an. They raise questions about God's harsh and strange laws in the Hebrew texts with some success as both atheists and Christians alike are not often readily equipped to deal with the Old Testament and Ancient Near East culture. They claim that moral blind spots can be detected in ancient texts and this proves human origin. We will address this claim and show God's timeless wisdom in the Bible through the understanding of the context and culture in which it was revealed, and contrast this with the Qur'an. This seminar will look specifically at slavery in light of these claims.