Our Steering Committee
Abdul Hamood is a professor in the Department of Immunology and Molecular Microbiology at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX. He obtained his PhD degree in Medical Microbiology from the University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, MO. He completed a 5-year fellowship at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.
He has been in Lubbock since 1992. Abdul has been a member of the executive council of the Islamic Center of the South Plain (ICSP) for several years and currently serves as a member. He is also the faculty advisor for the Muslim Student Association at Texas Tech University and the Muslim Student Association at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Abdul has been a part of the Lubbock Interfaith Association since 2010. |
Sue Morrow, ret., has been involved in education for more than 50 years, with a continuing emphasis in child and human development. She was a classroom teacher, college teacher, and administrator in university and experimental settings, served in the three Head Start initiatives, designed early childhood programs, and organized multiple conferences for educators in the west Texas region. She is well-versed in ‘temperament & type,’ and certified in the MBTI, and has provided many seminars on the topic for teachers and community leaders. Sue retired from the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Texas Tech University.
In 2005 Sue helped found Lubbock Interfaith Association, collaborating to provide ongoing opportunities for interfaith learning and relationships. She has a special interest in interfaith education for children, and in 2018 Sue presented at the 7th International Parliament of the World Religions, speaking to the urgent need for interfaith education of our young. |
Davis is an Honorably Retired Minister of the Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He retired in his fortieth year as pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Lubbock and previously served on the pastoral staff of Shadyside Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh.
Davis has been a part of Lubbock Interfaith Association since its beginning. His community service in Lubbock has included providing leadership for community organizing (West Texas Organizing Strategy), a counseling center, a child abuse prevention organization, a developmental preschool, a medical clinic for the working poor, and a clinical pastoral education program. He has held many positions in Palo Duro Presbytery. He is a senior trustee of his alma mater, Austin College; his theological degree is from Princeton Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Janet, are natives of Canyon; their three children and six grandchildren are dispersed from Dallas to Montreal to Boise. Davis’ interest in spiritual formation began twenty-five years ago with the practice of centering prayer. |
Professor Mark Owen Webb is the chairman of the Philosophy Department at Texas Tech University. He received both his B.A. in philosophy and his two M.A. degrees, one in philosophy and the other in Classical Humanities, from Texas Tech, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Syracuse University in 1991.
In 2006, he earned a postgraduate certificate in Buddhist Studies from Sunderland University. He specializes in epistemology and philosophy of religion. He is currently working on philosophical problems arising from the commitments of the world’s religions, starting with karma and reincarnation, and their implications for free will and personal identity. He serves on the national board of the Alliance for Shared Values. |