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Archive for October, 2009
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Sea Glass
Posted on October 31, 2009 | View CommentsSea glass
Smooth
sand makin blunt what can cut
no edge to cut
you with
this shit is clear and blue and green and brown
in triangles and nodules and squares and shapes
made by:
drunks on a dock
kids with Coke problems
cruise ships going under
Crusoe lost again or
Sting
I can’t explain the attraction – sea glass doesn’t
catch light or
let you see through it or
help you in a bar fight
It’s
blunt and cloudy and beautiful and old
and smooth
I find sharp pieces and recommit them to the rolling tides for my children. -
Daily Delicious Bits (Halloween)
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Daily Delicious Bits 2009-10-30
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Daily Delicious Bits 2009-10-28
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Rami Nashashibi and Joshua Dubois
Posted on October 27, 2009 | View CommentsRami Nashashibi (Executive Director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network) and Joshua Dubois (head of the Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) spoke to us today. Again, much of this will appear as stream-of-consciousness writing, with intermixing of paraphrasing and quotations. Nashashibi addressed us first, saying that our conference was aimed at rekindling the approach to a very simple concept. He quoted from Surah 49:13, which says “God has made us into nations and tribes so that we may come to know one another.”
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From Obama’s Cairo Speech to Action
Posted on October 27, 2009 | View CommentsI attended a session with some officials from the White House. A few months ago, President Obama gave a speech in Cairo, his “address to the Muslim World”, where he affirmed America’s commitment not only to community service but interfaith dialogue and action. These officials came to the conference to explain a bit about what specific initiatives the White House has engaged in to promote interfaith dialogue and service, and what the future of that work means for people in the interfaith movement.
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Bridge-Builders
Posted on October 26, 2009 | View CommentsTonight we are honoring “bridge-builders”, people who are making the idea of inter and intra-religious cooperation a reality in the day-to-day life of American social/civic interaction and indeed the world. They are changing the conversation about religion. Here they are:
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Just peacemaking
Posted on October 26, 2009 | View CommentsThis might be a bit like stream-of-consciousness, but I don’t want to spend time re-editing this later. It’s a workshop on the just peacemaking paradigm.
Susan Brooks-Thistlethwaite (Interfaith Youth Core board member and former seminary president) gave us a brief history of the transition of the United Church of Christ into a pacifist church. The UCC already had commitments to racial and social justice, so combining pacifism was a short leap. From further conferences, a series of papers and documents about peace were released that not only promoted pacifism, but active peacemaking. At its simplest level, “just peace” means that more peace happens than war, and that people must work together in order to affect these changes.
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Daily Delicious Bits 2009-10-23
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Why faith? Part 2
Posted on October 23, 2009 | View Comments
Service provider for soul and body
A previous post addressed the religious imperative against malaria from the standpoint of those of us in the US, UK, and Canada. So why is the Faiths Act campaign so explicit about the work of churches and mosques on the ground in sub-Saharan Africa? As it turns out, religious communities in the developing world are in a unique position to affect change, especially on the issue of malaria.