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SUMMARY:5th ILF: "Harnessing our Collective Strength through Interreligious Literacy"
DESCRIPTION:Rumi Forum\, Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington\, and Washington Theological Consortium present the 5th Interfaith Leadership Forum: “Harnessing our Collective Strength through Interreligious Literacy” on February 29\, 2024\, at Virginia Theological Seminary. The program features keynote speaker Shaun Casey\, an interfaith panel\, breakout sessions\, and a closing plenary. \n  \nAbout the Event \nInterreligious literacy can be a means to promote greater religious understanding and appreciation in the context of our pluralistic democracy. Ideally\, by learning about and engaging with the diverse traditions that make up our society\, we learn to respect one another\, thereby reducing fear\, prejudice\, discrimination\, and misunderstanding. In doing so\, we may also enhance our own ethical worldview and advance social cohesion.  \nSocial sectors like Chaplaincy\, Healthcare\, Education\, and Law Enforcement bring people together from various religious and cultural backgrounds. Those who work in and interact with these sectors benefit from the fruits of interreligious literacy when it’s effective at empowering people to be true to their identities and equipping them to engage with diverse perspectives productively. \nThis program is intended to help participants increase their interreligious knowledge and experience\, reflect\, and generate ideas for applying this new learning in their own contexts. \n \nThematic Areas: \n\nChaplaincy\n\n \nSister Laura Lee Seubert\, L.S.J. (Little Sisters of Jesus)\, is celebrating her ruby jubilee of 40 years in religious life. She was born in Cottonwood\, Idaho\, where she attended St. Gertrude Academy. She continued her education at Mankato State University (B.S.) in Mankato\, Minnesota\, the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago\, and the Institute of Integral Human Formation in Montreal\, Quebec. She is a C.P.E. graduate from MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington\, D.C. Sister Laura Lee’s ministry has included inner-city life in Chicago\, traveling circus ministry across the United States and Canada; and contemplative presence\, friendship\, and work in Anchorage\, Alaska; Rome\, Italy; Gallitzin\, Pennsylvania; and Baltimore. She currently serves as a part-time contract chaplain at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington\, D.C. Sister Laura Lee follows the spirituality of Blessed Charles de Foucauld in being a contemplative presence in the heart of the world. \n\nHealthcare\n\n \nDr. Inez Tuck\, Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University\, had a remarkable career in higher education as a university professor\, administrator\, and researcher. In her faculty role\, she focused on healing individuals\, organizations\, families\, and communities and the spirituality\, trauma\, and health of individuals with stigmatized illnesses or who have experienced the homicidal death of family members. She has been a faculty/consultant for a leadership development program sponsored by the National League for Nursing. She has served as a nursing educational consultant in the country of Moldova since 2011. \nShe serves on the Advisory Board for the Institute of Justice Formation and has written several commentaries on the webpage. She was an academic member of the earlier Project BeSTOW at the FBI Academy\, which examined law enforcement officers’ wellness and spiritual health. Dr. Tuck has a diverse educational background with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from NC A&T State University\, a Master’s degree in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing from the University of Florida\, and an MBA from the University of Tennessee\, Knoxville. Her PhD in Child Development and Family Relations with a minor in Sociology was earned at the University of North Carolina\, Greensboro. In 2008\, Dr. Tuck completed the Master of Divinity degree at Samuel Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University. \n\nEducation\n\n \nDr. Kate Soules is an education researcher and independent consultant specializing in religious literacy and religious diversity education. She works with organizations to assess the outcomes and effects of their programs so that they can increase the reach and impact of this work. Her research examines the assessment and evaluation of religious literacy education\, teacher professional learning about religion\, and the impacts of religious literacy education for both students and educators. Dr. Soules is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Religion and Education Collaborative (REC)\, an interdisciplinary network of scholars and practitioners working at the intersections of religion and schooling. She was a 2019-2020 recipient of the Religious Literacy Fellowship from the Foundation for Religious Literacy. In 2021\, she received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Religious and Education Special Interest Group at the American Education Research Association. \n\nLaw Enforcement\n\n \nOfficer Kevin Johnson\, Jr. has been the lead officer over the years in strengthening MPD’s relationship with the Islamic community in the District. This took on renewed urgency in 2019 in the aftermath of the Christchurch shooting\, as anti-Islamic incidents spiked across the US. Officer Johnson’s efforts allowed MPD officers to visit and build relationships and trust among all the Islamic mosques and institutions within the District. Leaders in the Muslim and African communities have noted that his work and presence are important and viewed as a significant step towards reducing the community’s fears. \n  \n  \n  \nAbout the Interfaith Leadership Forum \nInterfaith Leadership Forum (ILF) is a DMV area learning platform that aims to make the existing expertise\, capacity\, and scholarship on interfaith engagement available to clergy\, educators\, public servants\, and other interested individuals. The Forum is a partnership of the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington\, Rumi Forum\, and Washington Theological Consortium. \nILF aims to promote pluralism by convening leaders of various religious\, ethnic\, racial\, cultural\, and gender backgrounds to exchange ideas and generate an action-oriented agenda. It provides a venue where a diverse group of community leaders\, scholars\, clergy\, and public officials can engage in in-depth discussions on shared values and explore ways to harness them for social action. ILF is open to all individuals interested in advancing their interfaith literacy and serving the community as interfaith mobilizers in their professional or individual capacities. \nObjectives \nInterfaith Leadership Forum aims to strengthen interfaith relationships\, literacy\, and leadership by; \n\nEquipping one another with various models of dialogue with distinct ends.\nExperiencing deeper levels of interfaith encounters and dialogue\nStrengthening literacy about other’s faiths and about one’s own\nOvercoming prejudices and misconceptions about other faiths\nEliciting social action through interfaith engagement.
URL:https://rumiforum.org/event/5th-ilf-harnessing-our-collective-strength-through-interreligious-literacy/
LOCATION:Virginia Theological Seminary-Addison Academic Center\, 3630 Bishop Walker Cir.\, Alexandria\, VA\, 22304\, United States
CATEGORIES:February 2024,Interfaith Leadership Forum,Upcoming Events
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SUMMARY:4th ILF: Interfaith Engagement with the Environmental Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Rumi Forum\, Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington\, and Washington Theological Consortium present the 4th Interfaith Leadership Forum: “Interfaith Engagement with the Environmental Crisis” on May 31\, 2023. The program features keynote speaker Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb\, an interfaith panel\, and an opportunity for small group dialogues. \nEvent Photos \n[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”414″ display=”basic_thumbnail” thumbnail_crop=”0″] \n  \nKeynote by: \nRabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb\, D.Min. started at Adat Shalom when the synagogue was only eight years old\, and meeting at the JCC – he was still in rabbinic school\, Founding Rabbi Sid was part-time\, Shabbat morning services were every other week\, and cell phones hardly existed. Upon ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1997\, he became its first full-time rabbi and has joyfully served here ever since. \nRabbi Fred currently serves as Chair of the National Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life and is on the boards of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment and Interfaith Power and Light (The Regeneration Project). Fred has also been deeply engaged in social and racial justice (including Jews United for Justice)\, multi-faith (a past board member of the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington)\, and Israeli-progressive (J Street and more) efforts.  \nPanelists: \nGrowing up in Alabama surrounded by woods and creeks\, Sevim Kalyoncu discovered at an early age that her most direct connection with God came through nature. To this day\, she still finds peace in natural surroundings and holds a deep concern regarding humankind’s responsibility as vicegerent of the earth. She is involved with multiple local climate action groups and is dedicated to helping educate youth about the importance of environmental awareness for spiritual\, mental\, and physical well-being. She holds a B.S. from Georgetown and a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and has many years of nonprofit experience in Washington\, DC\, and the San Francisco Bay Area. She is also a naturalist interpreter and a yoga instructor. \nRev. Dr. Gilson Waldkoenig teaches methods for understanding ministry in context and applied theology rooted in the resilient grace of Christ. As Director of the Town and Country Church Institute (TCCI)\, Dr. Waldkoenig teaches courses in rural and Appalachian ministry and is sought out by synods\, judicatories\, and other seminaries for consultation and teaching. His research has included multiple-church ministries\, environmental ministries\, and a variety of other topics\, all reflecting his practical theology of “means of grace and scenes of grace.” He belongs to St. James Lutheran Church in Gettysburg. His books include Cooperating Congregations and Symbiotic Community; The Lost Land and his reviews appeared in Agricultural History\, Journal of Appalachian Studies\, Journal for Study of Religion\, Nature & Culture\, Christian Century\, and others. \nDr. Rajwant Singh is the founder and President of EcoSikh\, a global organization working on the climate crisis facing the planet. It has engaged the worldwide Sikh community to take action on environmental issues. He also co-founded the National Sikh Campaign\, an initiative to inform Americans about the Sikh identity. Dr. Rajwant Singh is also the Chairman of the Sikh Council on Religion and Education (SCORE)\, an organization that has worked with the White House and the members of the United States Congress. He organized a large gathering of the Sikhs to interact with political and elected leaders at Capitol Hill. He was instrumental in organizing the first-ever celebration of Guru Nanak’s birth anniversary at the White House in 2009. \nKristin Barker is co-founder and director of One Earth Sangha whose mission is to cultivate a Buddhist response to ecological crises. She is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leader program and now teaches with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. As a co-founder of White Awake\, Kristin has been supporting white people since 2011 with a Dharma approach to uprooting racism in ourselves and in our world. With a background in software engineering as well as environmental management\, she has worked at several international environmental organizations. She is a GreenFaith Fellow and serves on the advisory board of Project Inside Out. Kristin was born and raised in northern New Mexico and currently lives in Washington DC\, the traditional lands of the Piscataway people. \n4th ILF is part of “IFC Days of Unity”: \n \nThe Interfaith Leadership Forum (ILF) presents its 4th program during Days of Unity\, entitled “Interfaith Engagement with the Environmental Crisis”. Rumi Forum and its partners are glad to be collaborating with the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington (IFCMW) for the 4th ILF\, which coincides with their 6th Annual Days of Unity during the month of May 2023. \n[/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
URL:https://rumiforum.org/event/4th-interfaith-leadership-forum-interfaith-engagement-with-the-environmental-crisis/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Interfaith Leadership Forum,May 2023,Past Events
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SUMMARY:3rd Interfaith Leadership Forum:Building Interfaith Partnerships Beyond Racism and Religious Nationalism
DESCRIPTION:Rumi Forum\, Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington\, and Washington Theological Consortium presented the 3rd Interfaith Leadership Forum: “Building Interfaith Partnerships Beyond Racism and Religious Nationalism” on February 24\, 2022. \nEvent Video \n\n  \nAbout the Event: \nReligious nationalism is on the rise worldwide. In the U.S.\, it has primarily taken the form of White Christian Nationalism: the affiliation of being White and Christian with belonging and mattering in this country. This program explored the nature of global nationalism and its specific manifestation in the U.S. First\, we heard from Dr. Mark Juergensmeyer\, who is an expert who has been studying this trend for over thirty years. His keynote remarks were followed by a panel of diverse faith leaders who shared their views on building interfaith solidarity to resist the White Supremacist Christian ideology threatening our nation. This program was a forum for people of faith to learn\, become activated\, and feel equipped to respond together effectively. \n  \nProgram Outline: \nOpening Remarks\nRev. David Lindsey\, Executive Director\, Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington (IFC) \n  \nKeynote\n“The Capitol Insurrection and the Global Rise of Religious Nationalism”\nDr. Mark Juergensmeyer\, Founding Director of the Orfalea Center of Global and International Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara \n  \nPanel Presentations\nModerated by Rev. David Lindsey\, IFC \n“The Interfaith Imperative”\nRabbi Jack Moline – President\, Interfaith Alliance \n“Doctrine of Discovery\, Manifest Destiny and Christian Nationalism: Nothing New.”\nCharles Watson Jr. – Director of Education\, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty \n“The Pro-Democracy Faith Movement”\nMaggie Siddiqi – Senior Director\, Religion and Faith\, Center for American Progress \n“Religious Liberty and the Shortfall of Advocacy”\nSimran Singh – Vice Chairman\, IRF (International Religious Freedom) Secretariat \n  \nRumi Forum presents this event as a collaborating partner of the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington (IFCMW) during the 3rd Annual World Interfaith Harmony Week in the DMV. We are glad that this session of our monthly Scriptural Reasoning program coincides with the annual worldwide observance during the month of February 2022. \nThe Forum would like to thank you to our sponsor DC Mayor’s Office of Religious Affairs.
URL:https://rumiforum.org/event/3rd-interfaith-leadership-forum/
LOCATION:Youtube
CATEGORIES:February 2022,Interfaith Leadership Forum,Past Events
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SUMMARY:2nd Interfaith Leadership Forum: Human Dignity and Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nFratelli Tutti (All brothers and sisters)\, subtitled “on Fraternity and Social Friendship” is the third encyclical of Pope Francis. The document was signed on October 3\, 2020\, during Pope Francis’s visit to the top of his namesake St. Francis of Assisi\, and was released on his feast day. It borrows its title from St. Francis’s Admonitions. \nFratelli Tutti is Catholic in terms of its origin\, yet universal in terms of its substance. The encyclical addresses a set of contemporary global challenges that threaten global peace and highlights “fraternity” as a remedy to build a just world. As a sign of recognition of its global appeal\, the United Nations declared February 4 as the International Day of Human Fraternity beginning in 2021. \nFratelli Tutti is the focal point of the 2nd Interfaith Leadership Forum. This conversation will bring together a diverse array of faith leaders and scholars in the DMV area and beyond for an interactive exchange on some of the most pressing issues of our age. As the search for answers on how to emerge better into a post-pandemic society continues\, a collective reflection on Fratelli Tutti can renew hopes and illuminate the way forward. \nBreakout Session Themes and Co-Chairs \nSocial and economic justice:\n\nKim Lamberty – Director of Justice\, Peace and the Integrity of Creation (JPIC)\, Society of the Sacred Heart\nAnn Delorey – Program Director\, Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington\n\nRacism\, ethnocentrism\, and white nationalism:\n\nRev. Beverly Goines – Assistant Pastor\, National City Christian Church in Washington\nRev. David Lindsey – Executive Director\, Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington Immigration\n\nImmigration: \n\nRev. Sharon Stanley-Rea – Director\, Refugee & Immigration Ministries (RIM)\, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)\nElket Rodriquez – Immigration Attorney\, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Advocacy\n\nWar and conflict resolution:\n\nAmr Abdalla – Professor Emeritus\, University of Peace\nIbrahim Anli – Executive Director\, Rumi Forum\n\n  \nThis virtual program is sponsored by Interfaith Leadership Forum\, including \n \n  \nFull Event Video
URL:https://rumiforum.org/event/2nd-ilf/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Interfaith Leadership Forum,May 2021,Past Events
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