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Faith House Beyond NYC 
June 17, 2011

Greetings!  

 

Thanks to you, we are finishing our 3rd year! While New York City is winding down for the summer, Faith House is fresh and active beyond New York City. We are curating interfaith events at the first Wild Goose Festival in North Carolina and an online art exhibition, plus our Living Room hosts are writing for the Huffington Post. 

 

Please help us survive this very important stretch towards becoming a fully viable organization. We need you now to help us raise $30,000 by June 30th to get us through the summer and into the fall.
ANY contribution from you will move us towards the goal.  

 

There are many ways to donate...  

 

ON PAYPAL 

SEND A CHECK written to "Faith House Manhattan" to PO Box 552, New York, NY 10028

 

ONLINE through our Facebook Cause 

 

SHOP for books or merchandise
through "Shop in Good Faith"  

 

SPONSOR a Living Room for $500 or 
Co-Sponsor for $250 on the topic of your
choice. Email us for more information at
info@faithhousemanhattan.org 

As our way of saying "Thank You!"

we will be giving a digital copy of our compilation, "Faith and Food: The Cookbook," to all donors and to all who give over $300, we will send a copy of 100 Graces: Mealtime Blessings signed by author and Faith House supporter Marcia Kelly. 

 

To boast a bit, here are some of the recent accomplishments...

  • 14 Living Room Gatherings held this past year  
  • Over 250 people attended our 3rd Annual Interfaith Seder with with Rabbi David Ingber of Romemu at St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church. View our tweets and pictures from the evening! 
  • Launched a new Women's Spirituality Circle led by Jill Minkoff and Ashley Curl.  This group had a winter and spring gathering with a summer gathering planned for July 9. Read about the opening event! 
  • In the fourth chaper of the recently published book "Discovering the Spirit in the City," Bowie writes about her first year at Faith House 
  • Some online victories include our website getting over 30,000 hits in the past year and opening a Facebook page that already has over 320 "like"s! Add yours.

and what's coming up...

  • Bowie and Samir are heading to North Carolina, where they are organizing the interfaith events for the first Wild Goose Festival!
  • Faigy is building a new website for Faith House, to be debuted in August 
  • Bowie is preparing the fall calendar and working on grant proposals.
  • For the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, we are collaborating with other interfaith groups to prepare for the commemoration.
Faith House Beyond NYC 
Living Room Hosts on Huffington Post  
 

If you missed our last two Living Room gatherings... you're in luck!  Our two most recent Living Room hosts are both Huffington Post authors (Stedman for a long time and Pandit was invited as a result of leading our Living Room!).  Their most recent articles are related to the Living Rooms they led for us... and you can read them now beyond NYC!  

 

"The Yoga of Cooking and Eating" 

By Gadadhara Pandit Dasa  

Hindu Chaplain, Columbia University and NYU

 

"Do Atheists Belong in the Interfaith Movement?" 

By Chris Stedman, Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard / Managing Director of State of Formation

 

Huffington Post IconDid you know? Faith House was included in the
Huffington Post's recent list of
"The Interfaith Movement on Twitter"
 

Faith House Beyond NYC
Wild Goose Festival 2011
Bowie & Samir Curate Interfaith Events! 


Wild Goose

June 23-26, 2011 

   

Shakori Hills, North Carolina

 

Wild Goose Festival  

 

Bowie, Samir, our families, and friends from around the country will be gathering next week in North Carolina for the first annual Wild Goose festival. As of yesterday, over 1200 people had made plans to join us for this collaborative extended weekend of art, music, justice, and spirituality.  

 

If you have not bought your ticket yet, TODAY ONLY buy one and "share one free"! You don't need a special discount code to take advantage of this offer. Go to http://wildgoose.eventbrite.com and you will see this special automatically at checkout.

 

If you are going, please email with your cell phone so we can meet up and mark the following events on your calendar!   

 

2011 Interfaith Guests

Imam Abdullah Antepli, Muslim Chaplain at Duke University and Adjunct Faculty of Islamic Studies;
Rabbi Or N. Rose, Associate Dean and Director of Interfaith and Social Justice programs at Hebrew College; and
Paul Knitter, Paul Tillich Professor of Theology, World Religions and Culture at Union Theological Seminary

 

Thurs, June 23 @ 4 pm
Opening Ceremony
Niggun lead by Rabbi Or N. Rose

Thurs, June 23 @ 7 pm 
"What Does God Whisper to Christians: Models of Living Passionately in a Pluralist World"
With Paul Knitter & Samir Selmanovic

How do you balance your Christian identity, practice, and experience with inclusion and openness to other faiths?  You don't.  Forget the balance and radicalize instead.  Prof. Paul Knitter, the greatest living theologian of Christian pluralism (and one of the kindest and most amusing Roman Catholic teachers) will lay out our options of living as passionate Christians in a world where conflict, triumphalism, isolation, and indifference have failed us. Samir Selmanovic of Faith House Manhattan will comment with questions, insights, and stories from his experience with Faith House Manhattan and other inter-religious co-laboratories.  
 
Fri, June 24 @ 4 pm
"A Conversation with Islam"
With Abudullah Antepli

Sat, June 25 @ 2 pm
"Walking More Than One Path: Is Religious Multiple Belonging Possible?"
With Paul Knitter 


Sat, June 25 @ 3 pm 
"Going Deeper Through Inclusion: Perspectives on Religious Pluralism"
Be prepared to move beyond the superficial and be surprised by the conversation between three leaders in the modern interfaith movement: Imam Abdullah Antepli, Rabbi Or Rose, and Paul Knitter, Paul Tillich Professor of Theology, World Religions and Culture at Union Theological Seminary.  This panel will explore Pluralism, the idea of more than one path to the divine, in the context of the modern quest to be deeply committed to one's own faith in a world of many religious paths. Moderated by Bowie Snodgrass, Executive Director of Faith House Manhattan.

Sat, June 25 @ 5 pm
"Kabbalah Beyond the Headlines"
Rabbi Or N. Rose  

Please donate today 

 

          ON PAYPAL 

 

SEND A CHECK written to "Faith House Manhattan" to 

PO Box 552, New York, NY 10028


Thank you for making your donation. Now we are in this together! Please drop us a note of encouragement, a prayer,
or an idea. We would love to hear from you.


In Faith,

Bowie Snodgrass, Executive Director   
Samir Selmanovic Founder & President of the Board
Faigy Abdelhak, Community Development Administrator  
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
Living Room Hosts on Huffington Post
Wild Goose Festival
Bowie & Samir Curate Interfaith Events!
CALL FOR ENTRIES Under Abraham's Tent Online Art Exhibition
Quick Stats
Women's Spirituality Circles
Shop in Good Faith
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CALL FOR ENTRIES

Under Abraham's Tent Online Art Exhibtion   

ECVA Under Abrahams Tent 

Are you an artist?

Do you know artists?

Read the "call" and spread the word!


Bowie Snodgrass is the guest curator for the next Episcopal Church and Visual Arts (ECVA) exhibition called "Under Abraham's Tent."  People of all faiths are invited to submit art by July 17, 2011. Read the full Call for Entries

Quick Stats  

Did you know...

Visit our blog... we got more than 30,000 website hits in the past year?

Find us on Facebook...opened a Faceook Page this year that now has more than 300 fans?

Follow us on Twitter...that we have over 300 Tweets on  @FaithHouseNOW?

Women's Spirituality Circles 

Minkoff Mandala

A new community of women who are learning and practicing and experimenting what it looks like, and smells like, and feels like, to learn, grow, and practice together... not regardless of spiritual background, but out of the backgrounds that have spiritually formed us and create us into the women that we find ourselves to be.
Read about the winter and spring circles

Summer Circle!
July 9th,
3-6 pm
in Riverdale, Bronx
RSVP to Jill Minkoff

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