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Weekly Update
October 13, 2009
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Greetings!
After a month of Living Rooms focused on religious holy days (i.e. Ramadan and Yom Kippur), our next two are thematic and promise to be amazing!
We'll be exploring "Spirit & the Creative Imagination" tomorrow, October 14th, and "Walking More Than One Path: Is Religious Multiple Belonging Possible?" on October 28th.
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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!
Silkscreen above by Sadie Rosenthal
RSVPs welcome, but not required, on our Facebook Event or Meetup Event online.
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LIVING ROOM
Walking More Than One Path:
Is Religious Multiple-Belonging Possible?
 Wednesday, Oct 28, 2009
Intersections, 274 5th Ave
Doors Open at 6 PM
Program at 7 PM
With Prof Paul Knitter, Author of Without Buddha I Could Not Be A Christian
A young Roman Catholic priest experiences Vatican II in Rome, leaves the priesthood, gets married and becomes a leading scholar on religious pluralism... then later in life finds that his wife's Buddhism leads him down a path that saves his Christian identity during a crisis of faith. What's your story? Many religious people today have found that other paths inform and strengthen their primary path or have converted from one path to another or are still searching for a single path where they feel they "belong."
Esteemed scholar, wise and compassionate soul, and Faith House Advisory Council member, Paul Knitter will talk with us about what "multiple belonging" (or "multiple practicing") means, share his own story, lead us in community sharing, and then bring us into an extended period of meditative silence in the Buddhist tradition.
In addition, Faith House extends a warm welcome to members of Knitter's Union Theological Seminary class on "Dealing with Diversity: Preparing Religious Leaders for a Multi-Religious World" who will be attending Living Rooms in October and November as part of their course requirements.
Paul F. Knitter, the Paul Tillich Professor of Theology, World Religions and Culture at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York is a leading theologian of religious pluralism and interreligious dialogue. Knitter is author of more than a dozen books, most recently, Without Buddha I Could Not Be A Christian. Knitter's journey into interfaith dialogue began in 1964 when he was a seminarian in Rome and experienced the Second Vatican Council firsthand, at a time when the Roman Catholic Church declared its new attitude towards other religions.
Photo by Marcus Braybrooke: Paul Knitter, Maha Ghosananda, Irfan Khan and members of the Peace Council in the village of Acteal, from interfaithstudies.org
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 faithhousemanhattan.org
Islamic Relief USA
Day of Dignity 2009
Faith House Was There
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On October 3, a group of 12 Faith House volunteers gathered in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn as a part of Islamic Relief's National Day of Dignity program to serve America's most needy in 19 cities across America.
Report by Bara Levitt, Social Justice Intern
Photos by Alvin Poblacion
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Featured Article from
faithhousemanhattan.org
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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