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A letter from new IFLC President Raman Singh
Muslim Unity Center
IFLC to receive Spirit of Unity Award
Question of the Week
Registration open - IFLC Annual Awards Dinner
Interfaith Panel Discussions
May 2015 Events
June 2015 Events
July 2015 Events
October 2015 Events
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A Letter from

New IFLC President

Raman Singh

 

 

 

I got involved in the interfaith community as a young adult attending interfaith Thanksgiving prayer services with my father. These efforts were his personal mission. We started reaching out to people of other faiths because, as Sikhs, a minority that was not well understood, we wanted people to understand us.

 

Read about Raman's vision for the IFLC

   
 The Muslim Unity Center

Open House 

This Sunday, May 17

 

  

   

IFLC to receive
Spirit of Unity Award 

at 

Ecumenical Theological Seminary 

Annual Spirit Awards Banquet

this Wednesday

 

 

The Ecumenical Theological Seminary (ETS) will host its 9th Annual Spirit Awards Banquet on May 13, 2015 at the Shriners Silver Garden Event Center in Southfield.  A special reception for honorees, sponsors and ETS 2015 graduates will begin at 5:30 PM, and the awards presentations and dinner will start at 6:30PM.  The annual event honors individuals and organizations that have demonstrated a strong personal and moral commitment to contribute to the world around them.

 

Read about the honorees

Question of the Week

To learn the answers to previous week's questions from across the faith traditions, please click here for our question archive!

    

  Is Mother's Day a religious holiday?


 

  

Click here to find out

 

The IFLC would like to help foster our understanding of one another by using our newsletter as a forum for you to ask these important questions. We want to share your questions anonymously within the framework of our newsletter where religious leaders from these diverse faith communities will provide answers to them. We welcome the opportunity to learn together!

You can ask your questions in response to this newsletter or click here to email us!

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Registration Open

IFLC Annual Awards Dinner

October 14, 2015

   

 

  

Each year, we gather to honor some of our community's exceptional activists, raise funds for our community outreach, religious literacy and conciliation efforts, and enjoy an evening with our interfaith friends. 


 This year, the IFLC annual dinner will be October 14th at Shriners Silver Garden in Southfield.  A pre-dinner interfaith reception begins at 5:30 pm with the dinner program beginning promptly at 6:30 pm. We hope to see you there. We are pleased to share this year's honorees with you, and we look forward to honoring them and hearing from them at the dinner. We hope you'll join us.

 

Click here  to read about this year's nominees

 

Click here to register

 

   

  

Interfaith panel discussions 

at Baldwin Public Library

   

See video from

Pain and Healing Across the Faith Traditions

    

 

Pain and Healing Across the Faith Traditions

Click here for video

 

Next Discussion

WISDOM: Five Women, Five Journeys

Thurs., May. 14 at 6:30 p.m.

 

This unique WISDOM (Women's Interfaith Solutions for Dialogue and Outreach in Metro-Detroit) program features personal stories of women of different faith traditions - how their childhood impacted their beliefs today, what the challenges are for women in their faith tradition, what parts of their religion are misunderstood, and how reaching out to someone from a different faith has enriched their lives. Panelists include:

 

 Parwin Anwar (Muslim)

 Paula Drewek (Baha'i)

 Gail Katz (Jewish)

 Jatinder Kauer (Sikh)

 Amy Morgan (Christian)

 

Baldwin Public Library

300 West Merrill, Birmingham, MI 48009

www.baldwinlib.org

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Don't Miss These Upcoming InterFaith Events
Please visit our InterFaith Events Calendar for more information on the events listed below or contact us by clicking here.
May Events

 

WISDOM: Five Women, Five Journeys

Baldwin Public Library

300 West Merrill, Birmingham, MI 48009

Thurs., May. 14 at 6:30 p.m.

 

Family Festival and Fun Day

Muslim Unity Center

Saturday and Sunday, May 16 & 17

Click for more info

 

Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini
First Presbyterian Church of Northville
200 E Main St, Northville
Saturday May 16th at 1:00 pm 

Click here for more info

 

2015 Faith-Based Summit

Radisson Hotel Lansing

111 N Grand Ave., Lansing

May 19, 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

 

Packing Food

Plymouth Canton ICO

Gleaners in Detroit

2131 Beaufait, Detroit

Saturday, May 30, 9 - 11:30 am

 

June Events

 

Lunch and Learn Series

Interfaith Health and Hope Coalition

St. John Providence

Are We Making Alcoholics?

St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital, Madison Heights

Campus

Thursday, June 4, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Click for more info

 

Arab American National Museum tour

Troy Interfaith Group

13624 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn

Sunday, June 7, 2:15-4:00 pm

 

July Events

 

Southfield Festival of Hope

Hope United Methodist Church

26275 Northwestern Hwy, Southfield

July 9 - 12

October Events

 

IFLC 3rd Annual Awards Dinner

Shriner's Silver Garden

24350 Southfield Rd, Southfield

Wednesday, October 14, 6:30 pm

IFLC is a community resource for interfaith education, news and events. To suggest an event for our next calendar, send us an email. 

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