Interfaith’s Collaborative Agenda
The opening essay by Marcus Braybrooke provides an historical context for how interfaith activists have collaborated in addressing social justice, peacemaking, and care for the Earth. Then comes Thich Nhat Hanh stunning observations about why these same concerns have become survival issues today.
The rest of the stories in this issue unpack the collaborative possibilities for tikkun olam, healing the world.
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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 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 y 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 Akesh Mehta