 KidSpirit: Where Youth and the Spirit of Pluralism Converge
by Elizabeth Dabney Hochman
Take a moment to look back on your youth. Do you remember being 12 or 14? That awkward age on the cusp of adulthood, when you were neither a child nor yet an adult, but alternately identifying with both? Imagine your deepest held values and beliefs at that age; your fledgling sense of self and vulnerability. Did you have opportunities to share what mattered to you? To listen to voices different from your own and marvel at their unique worth and beauty? Flash forward a few years to your late teens and early twenties. How do you recall that sense of self now? Stronger? More settled? Perhaps a bit less open-minded than before?
We know that traits we develop as children become the basis of the adults we will become. If a child develops empathy, for example, early in life, we know they are more likely to be empathic later on. Conversely, what happens with negative traits? What about intolerance or its cousins, aggression and fear?
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Meaning Making: An Inter-Generational Collaboration
Over the past few months, State of Formation (SoF) staff have been in conversation with those at The Interfaith Observer (TIO) to produce an inter-generational conversation around meaning making within different religious and ethical traditions. With a shared writing objective, fifteen contributors from both organizations wrote about Meaning Making from their own backgrounds.
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What Really Goes On in America's Temples, Mosques and Churches
by David Briggs
What do Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn, Hispanic Catholics in central Nebraska, megachurch evangelicals in Houston and South Asian Muslims in suburban Detroit have in common?
More than many people could ever imagine.
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Religious Leadership and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
with Peter Geffen
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World Interfaith Harmony Week
The first week in February is World Interfaith Harmony Week. In only it's second year since it's adoption by the UN, thousands of events will take place around the world to celebrate and strengthen harmony between people of good will.
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Contemplatives in Conversation: Sufi and Christian Perspectives
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February 8, 2012
10:00am U.S. Central Time
with Nahid Angha and Daniel Wolpert
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Contemplative practice is often lauded as a common trait of many religious and spiritual traditions, yet approaches to contemplation can be as diverse as the traditions in which they are practiced. This webinar features two experts in conversation with each other about the contemplative traditions from Sufism and Christianity. Nahid Angha and Daniel Wolpert will share their expertise and compare and contrast the contemplative practices of their respective traditions. Learn More...
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