Scarboro Missions is proud to announce the publication of the Golden Rule Meditation Exercises. These 21 meditation exercises are the fruit of a three-year project involving 25 writers, editors and consultants. The exercises foster reflection on the Golden Rule in 13 religions. Themes include compassion, healing, art, global citizenship, social justice, journaling, the circle and unity amidst diversity. The do-it-yourself meditations are designed for both individual and group reflection; some of the meditations focus on the visual qualities of the Scarboro Missions' Golden Rule Poster [source: INTERFAITH DESK NEWS: NEWS HEADLINES – May 2006].
WASHINGTON (RNS) A small Jewish group has joined several vocal Christian organizations in denouncing “The Da Vinci Code,” pressing for a boycott of the new film based on Dan Brown's controversial novel. -- Piet Levy
The world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications ... News. CVS. Files. Religious: Build your Monastery in Internet ... User Interface : Web-based. Project UNIX name : religious. Registered : 2005-02-04 04:41 ... Source: sourceforge.net
A MultiFaith/MultiCultural Prayer Service will be held during the Multicultural Festival next weekend at Old Cowtown Museum.
Just after Qatar and Iran pledged $100 million to aid the struggling Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, I was on a Qatar Airways flight, staring out into the Saudi Arabian sky. A Western rabbi traveling to Qatar is hardly news. What was making headline news in the Arab world this year was the fact that — due to the groundbreaking work of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun’s Rabbi Rolando Matalon, Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer, the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Rabbi Burton Vizotsky and Mark Cohen from Princeton University — rabbis from Israel were asked to speak at the Conference on Religious Dialogue in Doha.
While I was flying over Mecca, Rabbi Yehuda Mirsky (Orthodox-Jerusalem) and Rabbi David Lazar (Conservative-Tel Aviv) were driving to Amman to catch a plane to Doha. Israeli rabbis headed for an inter-religious conference in a Wahabi Muslim land. That’s a first.
In Monday's RNS report Omar Sacirbey writes about Muslims looking to blacks for guidance on civil rights: African-American Muslims trace their Islamic heritage to slaves brought to North America in the 17th century, some 10 percent to 30 percent of whom were estimated to be Muslim. Many call themselves indigenous Muslims.
by Child waiting for adoption (child-waiting-for-adoption) @ Mon, 08 May 2006 23:58:34 -0400
Belief.Net - When Cindy Champnella brought her adopted daughter home from China, she soon discovered how upset Jaclyn was about someone she'd left behind at the orphanage. Jaclyn had treated two-year-old Xiao Xiao as her "baby," and once she was no longer there ...
Sylvia Boorstein's keynote speech: 'May you be happy, may your dreams come true.' This speech was delivered without a text or notes and is a transcription of Dr. Boorstein's spoken words at the Multifaith Baccalaureate Celebration on June 11, 2005.
"It's so great. I got so excited while that was happening. One of my meditation teachers used to end each of our interviews actually, I'd have my hand on the door ready to leave, and she'd say to me, "Remember, Sylvia, be happy," and I'd go out and I actually for a long time thought it was a salutation, like "have a good day" or something that you say just in a routine kind of a way, and it took me a long time to realize that it was an instruction, "Be happy," and not only that it was
an instruction but that it was a wisdom transmission, that happiness was a possibility.
Survey of News and Current Information Sources - Blogs + Websites:
While news reports and views are plenty, once in a way I must also list all the good resources that tend to carry Multifaith information.
Here is a list of interesting sites that add value to the Multifaith domain:
- Get Religion - (Review of media's religion coverage)
- The Revealer - (Daily review of religion news)
- SoMA Review - (Humorous look at faith in the news)
- Religion News Blog
- Holy Weblog (Reviewing the good, the bad and the quirky in the religious world)
- Blog Heaven (intends to cover a complete spectrum of religion news, commentary, trends, and personal reflection)
- Because religion can be interesting
- Blog Heaven (intends to cover a complete spectrum of religion news, commentary, trends, and personal reflection)
- Religion News Service (A weblog from Religion News Service (RNS), the only secular newswire focused exclusively on religion and ethics. RNS is a unit of Newhouse News Service and Advance Publications)
- Religion Press Release Services
- Religion Link (Linking journalists to ideas and sources For reporting today's hottest news)
- Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Program Listings
- More blogs with religious news
- More Multifaith news sources at Google
- Religion Web Logs at Eatonweb Blog Directory Portal
P.S. Bookmark this forthcoming event: World Religions After 911 Congress, [aka. World’s Religions After September 11, A Global Congress], 11-15 Sep 2006.
Contact: Prof Arvind Sharma for details: arvind.sharma@mcgill.ca
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