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May152012

May 2012 - Interfaith’s Collaborative Agenda

May 15, 2012

 

 

 

 

The Oakland Interfaith Coalition the night the police raided the park, but allowed the interfaith community to stay. See the Report from Berkeley below for details.

 

 

 

Editorial
Identifying Interfaith’s Collaborative Imperative

Interfaith News
Global Nutrition in Trouble – Tanzania Succeeds with Religious Peacemaking – Calls for Peace in the Midst of War – Jewish Trained Muslim Woman Staffs Christian Coalition – Clerics Stand Against Arizona’s Harsh Anti-Immigrant Law – Middle Eastern Christians Threatened – Florida Amendment Proposes State Funding for Religion – Tibetan Temple In Texas – Student Prize-winning Interfaith Comic Book – Catholic-Sikh Relations Affirmed – Houston Interfaith Gala Raises Over $1 Million – A Neuropsychological Basis For Spirituality? – Remembering Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

An Interfaith Odyssey for Us All
A Review of Ruth Broyde Sharone’s Minefields & Miracles by Paul Chaffee


May 2012 Theme
Interfaith’s Collaborative Agenda


The Journey So Far
Interfaith and Peace, Social Justice and Respect for the Earth by TIO Correspondent Marcus Braybrooke

The Risk and Our Response
Thich Nhat Hanh: In 100 Years There May Be No More Humans on Planet Earth by Interview by Tom Levitt for the Ecologist

Confronting Global Degradation
Interfaith Call to Action on Climate Change from the Interfaith Moral Action on Climate Change

The Case for Mother Earth
Debate Over Mother Earth’s ‘Rights’ Stirs Fears of Pagan Socialism by Bron Taylor

Interfaith Environmental Activism
How Faith Communities Are Supporting the Earth by Paul Chaffee

Asian Religions in the U.S. Go to the White House
Social Justice as a Unifying Issue for Dharmic Communities by Joshua Stanton

Stories Generating Peace
Peacemaking – Seeking, Finding, Starting by Angela Butel

Imagining New Partnerships
Clooney, Kony and Why Interfaith Matters by Greg Damhorst

Not Religious Labels But Religious Identities
NewGround Interfaith Engagement Model Reaches Egypt by Eliana Kaya and Sarah Bassin

Growing the Interfaith Community
Interfaith Peacemaking on the Documentary Screen by TIO Correspondent Ruth Broyde Sharone

Report from Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Seventh World Religious Freedom Congress Meets by Mark Kellner, Adventist Review, April 24, 2012

Report from Berkeley, California
Occupy Faith National Conference: Let the Walls Come Crumbling Down! by Nichola Torbett

Teenagers Take on the Big Issues
Talking to Tomorrow’s Peacemakers by Akash Mehta


Letter to the Editor by Bruce Schuman
Opportunities
Religious Calendar
Major Events Calendar
TIO Update - Ruth Sharone’s book published today, theme shift for July, interns, and TIO vacations in August

Members of TIO’s Editorial Board are: Anna Arphan, Tom Bonacci, Karen Boyett, Jan Chaffee, Paul Chaffee, Don Frew, Heng Sure, Kay Lindahl, Mark Mancao, Deborah Moldow, Rachael Watcher, Rebecca Tobias, Terry Weller, and Jim Wiggins.