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September 2018
Community Awareness Briefing
Please join us for a Community Awareness Briefing designed to help our community develop an understanding of violent extremist recruitment tactics and explore ways to collectively prevent and address such public safety threats at the local level. The Community Awareness Briefing uses a series of case studies covering the spectrum of violent extremist groups to illustrate the radicalization and recruitment process, but more importantly to identify vulnerabilities and points of intervention.
Find out more »Leggett Legacy Forward Celebration
Come Sunday, September 23, we have the opportunity to honor two extraordinary people who have put the welfare of Montgomery County ahead of themselves. I hope you will join me at The Music Center at Strathmore for the Leggett Legacy Forward Celebration. All that we do through our Faith Community, Neighbors in Need and Religious Land Use Working Groups would not be possible without Ike Leggett. He is a man of faith who sees the divine image in every person, and has worked hard…
Find out more »Women’s Conference – “In the Quiet Heart is Hidden Sorrow that the Eye Can’t See”
The conference will focus on Mental Health with the theme "In the Quiet Heart is Hidden Sorrow that the Eye Can't See." We're bringing professional motivational speaker, Jamie Hutchings, from Arizona. She will talk about perfectionism and self acceptance. Her blog. Then we'll break into two hours of workshops run by licensed therapists with three classes offered (everyone picks two workshops to attend). Classes will be on anxiety/depression, healing after trauma/crisis and self care. We will hopefully be able to offer…
Find out more »Inter-Faith Text Study
The Office of the Council of Bishops and the General Board of Church and Society of The United Methodist Church are hosting a monthly inter-faith text study in the United Methodist Building on Capitol Hill. Using the method known as Scriptural Reasoning, this study group brings together members of the Abrahamic faiths for focused discussion on specific parallel passages from the sacred texts of each tradition. Scriptural Reasoning (SR) is best descried as “a tool for inter-faith dialogue whereby people of different…
Find out more »Sukkot Celebration
Join Beth El for the celebration of Sukkot together with members of the JAMAAT and the Islamic Education Center of Potomac on September 27. During Sukkot, which celebrates the fall harvest, it is customary to invite guests to eat in an open air sukkah (or hut). Bring your questions and learn about the customs and faith of your Muslim and Jewish neighbors! A kosher dinner will be served.
Find out more »Missing Children, Missing Persons, Missing Voices
Missing Children, Missing Persons, Missing Voices: Help Find Them Now Thursday, September 27, 2018 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT Henry C. Gregory III Family Life Center 1510 Ninth Street, NW (near P Street) Washington, DC 20001 FREE, register in advance through Eventbrite (you can search by the title, or go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/missing-children-missing-persons-missing-voices-tickets-49634853182). Registration also by email: [email protected] A community awareness and action forum focusing on missing persons of color, particularly drawing attention to the concerns regarding children and seniors and the responses by…
Find out more »September 2018 Seeing the Face of God In Each Other Anti-Racism Workshop
This workshop provides an opportunity for people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds to explore the history of institutionalized discrimination in our society. Whether you’re just beginning this work or are a long-time advocate of racial justice, all participants will benefit from the training’s goal of trying to find common ground from which to continue our shared endeavor of building the beloved community in the diocese and beyond. The training satisfies canonical requirements for anti-racism training in the Episcopal Church,…
Find out more »4th Annual Joseph Smith Lecture
On September 28th, 2018 the University of Virginia's Mormon Studies Program will host its 4th Annual Joseph Smith Lecture on Religious Liberty. Douglas Laycock, Distinguished Professor of Law and Religious Studies at UVA, will deliver an address on "Liberty and Justice for All? What the Supreme Court Did in Masterpiece Cakeshop." The lecture will be at 8:00 p.m. at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business extension (1100 Wilson Blvd, 30th Floor, Arlington, Virginia) near the Roslyn Metro. Parking will be available in the basement lot.…
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