The first Sunday of each month Interfaith Winston Salem presents Journey's, an opportunity to explore the path we all take in encountering or discovering our faith. This past Sunday Charlene Hunt shared with us her Journey about embracing her Lumbee heritage and faith and the geographical and cultural challenges of living as a Lumbee indian in North Carolina. If you were not able to attend you can watch Charlene's story here .... https://youtu.be/peKBoO9yUsU
Book Club
Summer Vacation for the Book Club
Interfaith Winston-Salem’s book club will take a summer vacation. The book club will not meet on July 12th but will return full force in September.
In acknowledgement of the fifteenth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the book club will take part in what is shaping up as a community-wide reflection on religion, violence and peace.
The book club has chosen When Religion Turns Evil by Dr. Charles Kimball, chair of the Department of Religion at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Kimball previously held the same position at Wake Forest University. The public is invited to join the club’s discussion on Tuesday, September 13 at Highland Presbyterian Church.
The discussion will be a precursor to Dr. Kimball’s Carlton Mitchell presentation on Thursday, September 2, which will take place at Brendle Recital Hall on the Wake Forest University campus. Dr. Kimball is an internationally recognized scholar on the Abrahamic faiths with a special focus on Islam.
In addition to these two events, other local organizations are in the early planning stages to offer additional study and discussion opportunities. Details will be provided later. For additional information contact interfaithws@gmail.com.
Conversations
“Conversations” Features Variety of Traditions
Conversations is a discussion based program highlighting topics with the intent to distill those topics among a diverse range of faith traditions. This gathering is held monthly on the third Tuesday of each month. The gathering occurs in the Social Hall of Highland Presbyterian Church on Cloverdale Ave.
They typical format for discussion includes a guest presentation for a duration of roughly 25 minutes followed by small-group conversations related to the presentation and concluding with a final period of group discussion. The program ends at 8:30.
To highlight the variety within the program offered see the examples below of recent presentations:
· “A Profile of the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons)” with Bishop Nathaniel Ivers
· “The Feminine Principle of Shakti in Hinduism” with Sita Somara
· “The Power of Prayer” with Bob Coley
· “The Hajj to Mecca” with Shadi Qasem
· “The Hare Krishna Tradition” with Sarva-drik Das
Conversations’ diverse planning team includes Barry Geller, Wilda Spalding, Issa Badarin, Michelle Voss Roberts, Bob Coley. Truman Dunn oversees and organizes the planning commitee.
“Conversations” grew out of “Journeys,” another monthly program sponsored by Interfaith Winston-Salem. While “Journeys” is built around an early Sunday morning meal, “Conversations” is held in the evening without food.
The meetings are open to the public at no charge. Registration is not required to participate. Ample parking is available in the parking lot adjacent to Highland Presbyterian’s Social Hall. The entrance to the social hall is located on the side of the building facing the parking lot.
April’s “Conversations” Features “The Power of Prayer”
Our "Conversations" gathering has moved to Highland Presbyterian Church at 2380 Cloverdale Ave. Also a reminder that we moved to the third Tuesday of each month. Our guest this month is Bob Coley, a long-time supporter of interfaith work. Of Holy Family Catholic Church in Clemmons, he will present on the power of prayer and meaning therein. The meeting will be held at 7-8:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 19th, in the Activity Building across the street from the sanctuary.
Margot Lobree's Journey & The Youth Tour!
This Sunday, April 3 2016, Interfaith will be hosting two very exciting events. Margot Lobree, a native of Frankfurt, Germany and a survivor of the Holocaust, will share her personal journey today. Mrs. Lobree was one of 10,000 children rescued by England following Kristalnacht Nov. 9-10, 1938, as a vicious pogrom was carried out against Jews living in Germany and Austria. More than 1,000 synagogues were burned during that scourge. The gathering meets at 8 a.m. at the Golden Corral Restaurant, 180 Hanes Mall Circle, in Winston-Salem. No reservations are required. mail to interfaithws@gmail.com?subject=Journeys.
Later that afternoon Interfaith will host our ninth annual Interfaith Tour will visit three Winston-Salem worship centers this afternoon, and everyone is welcome. At each location, leaders of the centers will share the history of their tradition and tell special stories about their faiths. We begin at 2 p.m. at The Community Mosque, 1419 Waughtown St. with Imam Khalid Griggs. Our second stop at 3 p.m. is at St. Phillips Moravian Church in Old Salem, the oldest African-American church still standing in North Carolina. Rev. Russ May will be our host at St. Phillips. The tour concludes at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church at 1730 Link Road beginning at 4 p.m. led by Father Carl Zdancewicz. Everyone will be treated to free pizza in the school cafeteria at Our Lady of Mercy.
A Conversation with Lindsey Mullen: March 15, 2016
Our "Conversations" gathering moves to Highland Presbyterian Church at 2380 Cloverdale Ave. beginning with tonight's program. We also are moving to the third Tuesday of each month. Our guest tonight is Lindsey Mullen, a recent graduate of the Wake Forest School of Divinity. She is a midwife/doula and will share stories of birth rituals. She moved to Winston Salem from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where she studied Social Justice at the University of Alabama. She has a special interest in ecofeminist theology. Lindsey loves craft projects, playing outside, and creating her own vegetarian recipes. The meeting will be held at 7-8:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall across the street from the sanctuary. The event is open to the public.
Contact Truman Dunn tldunn104@gmail.com.
Journey's, Sunday March 10th
Robin Lynne, B.S., ALC-PC, Cht, is a shamanic healer and spiritual teacher, synthesizing Native American practices, self-empowerment ritual and feminine spirituality. Her topic is "Following the Snake." She currently teaches and has a healing practice through the Flower Eagle Medicine Lodge in her home in Winston-Salem. Robin holds a B.S. in Health and Human Services from Columbia Pacific University and is a graduate of the Americana Leadership College Professional Counseling Program. She is a certified Hypnotherapist and an Ordained Minister with Peace Community Church. We meet at 8 a.m. at the Golden Corral Restaurant, 180 Hanes Mall Circle, in Winston-Salem. No reservations are required.
Interfaith Youth Tour April 3 2016
Neighbors in the Winston-Salem area will have the opportunity Sunday afternoon, April 3 to learn more about three local worship centers, their beliefs and their practices. Leaders at each location will make brief presentations that are followed by a question and answer period.
The tour, which is open to youth and adults, begins at 2 p.m. at The Community Mosque, 1419 Waughtown St. On-site registration opens at 1:45 p.m. The tour moves to St. Phillips Moravian Church, the oldest standing African-American church in North Carolina, at 3 p.m. The tour concludes at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church at 1730 Link Road beginning at 4 p.m. led by Father Carl Zdancewicz. Everyone will be treated to free pizza in the school cafeteria at Our Lady of Mercy.
This is the ninth annual tour, sponsored again by Interfaith Winston-Salem. The event is free.
Conversations Postponed to February 22
Interfaith Winston-Salem "Conversations" gathering has been postponed until Monday, Feb. 22. We will meet at 7-8:30 p.m. in the Education Building’s Beit Knesset Room at Temple Emanuel, 201 Oakwood Dr. in Winston-Salem. Our guest will be Nathaniel N. Ivers, Bishop of a Latter-Day Saints (commonly referred to as Mormons) congregation in Winston-Salem. The event is free and open to the public. Bishop Ivers, who became a member of his church when he was eight years old, attended and graduated from Brigham Young University - Idaho and Brigham Young University.He served a two-year, full-time LDS church mission to Panama, and has had a number of responsibilities in his church community.
IFWS and WFU Collaborate on World Religions Project
Interfaith Winston-Salem and the two sections of Dr. Leann Pace's Religion 101 class at Wake Forest University are exploring the possibility of proposing to the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools that a world religions curriculum be offered in local high schools.
Under the leadership of Dr. Pace and participation by Interfaith Winston-Salem, the approximately 60 students now are preparing the process that will be needed to reach the point where a proposal could be made. The class will be reading “Faith Ed: Teaching About Religion in an Age of Intolerance” by NPR journalist Linda K. Wertheimer and writings by Dr. Stephen Prothero of Boston University.
Members of the class and other interested groups and individuals will be joining the Interfaith Winston-Salem Book Club for a discussion of Werthheimer's book at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 8 at Highland Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem.
Wertheimer is an award-winning education writer and essayist. She was previously the education editor of the Boston Globe and a reporter at the Dallas Morning News and Orlando Sentinel. A graduate of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, she lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.