Interfaith Happenings This Week in the Bay Area
September 13, 2011 in Interfaith
Finding Faith and Spirituality in the 21st Century
The Commonwealth Club of California
Wednesday, September 14 at 6 PM
URI Founder and President, The Rt. Rev. William E. Swing, joins a panel of provocative thinkers and leaders of San Francisco’s interfaith community to discuss the role faith and the sacred play in modern society. Is the faith found in nature any less or more powerful than faith felt in a house of worship? Can communities save us when hierarchies fail? Must a religious community depend on a physical structure for its reality? In this eye-opening conversation, an esteemed group of panelists will shed light on what it means to have faith in the 21st century, as well as push us to rethink what we hold as truly sacred in our own lives.
Women’s Peace Walk
Muir Woods
Thursday, September 15 at 10 AM
Join the Women’s Peace walk with Elana Rozenman Executive Director of TRUST-Emun Cooperation Circle in Jerusalem in support of the efforts of Palestinian and Israeli women currently struggling to build their oasis of peace in the midst of violent conflict raging around us.
“We will be walking silently, slowly, with peace in every step – in the tradition of Vietnamese Buddhist Master Thich Nhat Hanh – who I will have just spent a week with in Retreat. For ten years I have led these Womens Peace Walks through the giant trees as an experience of serenity, sisterhood, and support for our work with Israeli and Palestinian women – Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Above is a picture of a Women’s Peace Walk in Jerusalem several months ago when Anna Halprin of Marin County led us in dance together.
We will be walking in preparation for International Day of Peace observed on September 21 worldwide.”
Gather at the Park entrance at 10 AM. The walk will finish by 12 noon.
At the Moral Core of Nuclear Weapons
Free Teleconference
Tuesday, September 20 3pm-4pm EDT
This is a global wake-up call on responding to the threat of nuclear weapons, organized by the Voices for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons Cooperation Circle. This free teleconference will feature Nobel Prize winner Mairead Carrigan Maguire; physics professor Sidney Drell; Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute; and Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, Founder and Director of Two Futures Project. To participate, register on-line at www.wetheworld.org/sept20call. For more information, visit http://www.uri.org/the_latest/2011/08/at_the_moral_core_of_nuclear_weapons .
R Watcher, PNC Bay Area Interfaith Representative