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Using Social Media to Promote Interfaith Dialogue in Your Community

Do you use social media?

 

Tens of thousands are joining Facebook, Meetup or Living Social every day. Many are using these internet sites to find friends and faith. Here's one example of a Meetup group that has met 33 times! There are 16 core members who invite many others for discussion and food.…

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Added by Graeme Sharrock on December 1, 2012 at 2:04pm — No Comments

CREATING AN INTERFAITH DISCUSSION GROUP

Need to create an event to promote goodwill among people of different faiths? 

Instead of inviting official leaders to give speeches, try a one -time discussion group. 

EXAMPLE: How to Read Texts of Violence in Islam, Christianity and Judaism

READING: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-jenkins/priests-of-phinehas_b_1253395.html?

WHERE: A local school, library, church,…

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Added by Graeme Sharrock on November 6, 2012 at 8:00am — No Comments

How to Get a Positive Inter-faith Story into Your Newspaper--with a Co-writer!

By Graeme Sharrock

On Sunday October  14, 2012, a 28 year-old Conservative rabbi and a 30 year-old Seventh-day Adventist minister  published an article in the…

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Added by Graeme Sharrock on October 17, 2012 at 12:00am — 1 Comment

Buddhist Bhutan Bans Clergy From Voting in Elections

Buddhist Bhutan Bans Clergy

From Voting in Elections…
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Added by Graeme Sharrock on October 11, 2010 at 10:14am — No Comments

Media and Religion in America: Burning Qu’rans, Building Mosques, and Being the Donald





In August, a Christian minister in Florida announced that on September 11, the ninth anniversary of the destruction of the twin towers, he would burn copies of the Qu’ran at his church. The announcement lit a flurry of

anxiety by religious people, media and government regarding the possible effect

of such an action. The action would only inflame inter-religious rivalry or

even provoke American deaths in Afghanistan and…

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Added by Graeme Sharrock on September 10, 2010 at 8:19am — No Comments

Media and Religion in America: Burning Qu’rans, Building Mosques, and Being the Donald

In August, a Christian minister in Florida announced that on September 11, the ninth anniversary of the destruction of the twin towers, he would burn copies of the Qu’ran at his church. The announcement lit a flurry of

anxiety by religious people, media and government regarding the possible effect

of such an action. The action would only inflame inter-religious rivalry or

even provoke American deaths in Afghanistan and elsewhere, claimed…

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Added by Graeme Sharrock on September 10, 2010 at 7:56am — No Comments

Samir Selmanovich reflects on experiencing your neighbor's faith

Let’s step over the threshold of “stalemate” and create new stories, says Samir Selmanovic, in an interview with ThinkFWD host, Spencer Burke. Selmanovic’s book,…
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Added by Graeme Sharrock on July 15, 2010 at 5:00am — No Comments

Six steps to real interfaith work... from the Washington Post

Six steps to real interfaith work…

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Added by Graeme Sharrock on June 27, 2010 at 12:47pm — 3 Comments

Groups Press for Religious Freedom Envoy

Groups Press for Religious Freedom Envoy…
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Added by Graeme Sharrock on April 12, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

Oregon Governor Repeals Religious Garb Prohibition

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Added by Graeme Sharrock on April 6, 2010 at 12:21am — No Comments

The Monkey and The Box (by Jerry Kolber)

Once upon a time, a long time from now, there was a very old gray monkey who lived in a tree in the middle of his village. This monkey was the keeper of a beautiful box, polished wood encrusted with inlaid diamonds and images of the sun and the ocean. Only this old monkey knew what was in the box, and that was okay because it was a time…
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Added by Graeme Sharrock on April 5, 2010 at 6:16am — No Comments

Support for 'Defamation of religions' resolution in U.N. fades

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Added by Graeme Sharrock on April 2, 2010 at 7:49am — No Comments

Tehran Conference on Multiculturalism, Religion, Global Community (July, 2010)





International Conference on Multiculturalism and Global Community

24-27 July 2010

Tehran, Iran

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Culture: Diversity or Integrity



  • Multiculturalism and Global Peace
  • Asia: Diversity or Unity in…
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Added by Graeme Sharrock on March 14, 2010 at 9:44am — 4 Comments

Oregon State Legislature Repeals Law Banning Religious Apparel Worn by Public School Teachers

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Added by Graeme Sharrock on March 3, 2010 at 10:57pm — No Comments

Fellowship in Inter-Religous Studies

I am posting the following Fellowship opportunity for the benefit of scholars, clergy and researchers interested in Inter-faith research. Please forward to colleagues who may be interested.

If you know of any other similar opportunities, please post on peacenext.org for the benefit of our inter-faith community.…

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Added by Graeme Sharrock on February 9, 2010 at 11:59am — No Comments

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