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Weekly Update
October 6, 2009
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Greetings!
This Thursday, Oct 8th, we're headed to Queens to visit the Ganesh Temple in Flushing as our first Field Trip of the fall.
On the 2nd Wednesday of this month, Oct 14th, we'll be exploring "Spirit & the Creative Imagination" with a group of amazing guest creators and lots of time to create!
Mark your calendars now for our next Serve Together on Sunday Oct 25th. Details from Bara coming next week.
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FIELD TRIP
Ganesh Temple (Hindu), Queens NY
Thursday, Octob er 8, 2009
6:45 PM Gather quietly inside temple (Look for Bowie's bright orange vest)
7 PM Lighting of Lamps, followed by Pooja and tour
Stay after for Indian dinner together in the Canteen.
45-57 Bowne Street, Flushing, NY 11355
See DIRECTIONS below
The Thursday evening ritual will be a Raghavendra Swamy Guru Paduka Pooja. Visit the Ganesh Temple's website at www.nyganeshtemple.org. Read about its recent "Reconsecration, With Bells, Saffron and Elephant" in the New York Times. Rathi Raja, a member of our Advisory Council and a recent Living Room host, will be with us.
DIRECTIONS
Allow 1 hr from Grand Central Terminal to the Temple
By Public Transportation: Take IRT Flushing
Line (No.7) train from Times Square. Get of at last stop - Main Street,
Flushing. Take Q27 bus from Main Street, which goes up Kissena Blvd.,
and turns left onto Holly Ave. Get off at the stop just before Bowne
Street and you will see the Rajagopuram of the temple to your left. The
bus ride is only five to ten minutes at the most. [You can also take the Q65 Bus, getting off at 45th Ave & Bowne Street]
NOTE: Bowie will stand outside the Duane Reade at 39th Ave and Main Street (near the Flushing Main Street 7 train stop) in a bright orange vest from 6:10-6:20 pm to meet anyone who wants to take the bus together.
By Automobile: From
Manhattan : Take Midtown Tunnel to Long Island Expressway. Exit at
Kissena Blvd. (Exit No. 24), and turn left onto Kissena Blvd. travel
approximately 1 mile, then turn right onto Holly Ave. Travel three
blocks and turn left onto Bowne St. You will see the temple on your
right.
RSVPs welcome, but not required, on our Facebook Event, Meetup Event or by emailing bowie@faithhousemanhattan.org
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LIVING ROOM GATHERING
Spirit & the Creative Imagination
Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009
Intersections, 274 5th Ave
Doors Open at 6 PM
Program at 7 PM
With William Bevington, Aziz Friedrich, George Mathew, Sadie Rosenthal
Repeating one of our very favorite Living Rooms of last fall, come be creative, playful and divinely inspired! William Bevington will help us reflect on the shared divine and human impulse to create, then we will choose one of three half-hour workshops dealing with creative words, images or music. We will gather again at the end to share the fruits of the spirit and our own creative imaginations.
REFLECTION
William Bevington is a professor of information design. He teaches at Parsons the New School for Design and was the co-founder of PIIM, The Parsons Institute for Information Mapping, New York.
WRITING
Aziz Friedrich is a lover of language born and raised in Yonkers (Muslim, Sufi dervish at Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order)
MUSIC
George Mathew is an orchestra conductor who organizes humanitarian concerts (Christian, raised in Mar Thoma Syrian Church, attends Cathedral of St John the Divine)
ART
Sadie Rosenthal is a painter, photographer, and printmaker interested in exploring the
interactions of layers including color, text, line and shape (Jewish,
Member of Romemu)
Please bring snacks to share!
RSVPs welcome, but not required, on our Facebook Event or Meetup Event online.
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In Faith,
Juliet rabia Gentile, Islamic Co-Leader
Samir Selmanovic, Founder and Christian Co-Leader
Bara Levitt, Social Justice Intern
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Featured Article from
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A Profile Video and a Book Review - "It's Really All About God: Reflections of a Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian" by Samir Selmanovic
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Watch the YouTube Video. Read the latest review. "Samir Selmanovic is asking the right questions at the right time, and refusing the consolations of certainty at a time when strident orthodoxies--atheist as well as religious--are perilously dividing us."
- KAREN ARMSTRONG, author, A History of God and The Case for God
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Featured Article from
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Yom Kippur at Faith House: An Awakening & Prayers
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"As I heard these words - 'The bold invitation of these days (leading up to Yom Kippur) is to go
inside...to enter the inner life' - I was immediately awoken from my
slumber, just like in the ancient days when people were awoken from
their slumber by the blowing of the Shofar"...
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Featured Sabbath Poem faithhousemanhattan.org
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THE AVOWAL
~Denise Levertov
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As swimmers dare
to lie face to the sky
and water bears them,
as hawks rest upon air
and air sustains them,
so would I learn to attain
freefall, and float
into Creator Spirit's deep
embrace,
knowing no effort earns
that all-surrounding grace.
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