Friends,
Join FOR Executive Director Mark Johnson this March in Bangor, PA, for a retreat on "FOR Interfaith Witness in the 21st Century."
Mark will be joined with an interfaith team of presenters:
- Osagyefo Sekou, Christian pastor
- Leslie Hilgeman, Rabinnical student
- Rabia Harris, Muslim chaplain
Our retreat will be held Friday, March 12 to Sunday, March 14, at the Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center in Bangor, PA.
The cost of the retreat is $325, including meals. Continuing education credit is available, along with scholarships and commuter rates.
Learn more and register online for the retreat.
President Barack Obama has signaled openness to and an understanding of the complexities inherent to domestic and global religious pluralism. From the moment of his inauguration through his major statement in Cairo last February calling for "a new beginning" and his continuing statements in interfaith contexts, he has articulated his expectation about the value of faith-based contributions to peacemaking.
At the same time, policy decisions and evolving global political strategy have done little to provide confidence that action and rhetoric will align in this administration any better than in the last. What does this mean for those of us who ground our lives in nonviolence and faith? For our work for justice and peace? For interfaith relations?
Leaders from different faiths will help us celebrate our long FOR-Kirkridge relationship. We are influenced by our common ancestors: Mohandas Gandhi, Richard Gregg, A.J. Muste, Muriel Lester, Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Hildegard Goss-Mayr, Jim Lawson, Abdul Ghaffar Kahn, Abraham Heschel, and Naomi Goodman, among others. How will they continue to inform our lives for faith-based witness in thetwenty-first century?
Learn more and register online for the retreat.
We hope to see you at Kirkridge in March!