Season for Interfaith-Intercultural Celebration
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Getting Started with SIIC in Your Area:
Welcome to the Season for Interfaith Celebration Website!
The late Bro. Wayne Teasdale, dear friend of the Association for Global New Thought, wrote in his book: The Mystic Heart…
“Humanity stands at a crossroads between horror and hope. In choosing hope, we must seed a new consciousness, a radically fresh approach to life drawing its inspiration from perennial spiritual and moral insights, intuition and experience. We call this new awareness Interspiritual, implying not the homogenization of religion, but the recovering of the shared mystic heart beating in the center of the world’s deepest spiritual traditions.”
Spiritual and religious belief systems shape worldviews that, in turn, determine cultural norms. We believe that discord between and among cultures is a symptom of human woundedness catalyzed by failed understanding. When compassionately understood, the diverse wisdom of our spiritual legacies give rise to healing. WE DO have a hand in determining whether cultures evolve, or merely change.
Today, we’re right in the middle of a planet-wide values shift. Its implications for religion, spirituality, inter-cultural healing and personal development are profound, indeed. At its very heart lie new understandings of peace and nonviolence, social / economic justice, human rights, and ecological sustainability.
Through Sunday Services, prayer gatherings, community events, and workshops focusing on interfaith communication and harmony, YOU can Be The Change in your spiritual center and beyond. Everything you need to participate, as well as personal support and coaching by AGNT leaders, can be found, FREE, right here….
SIGN IN:
This is a short form we ask to to fill out that lets us know you are interested or planning on participating in Season for Interfaith Celebration. Give us your contact information, tell us about your community and ask to be connected with like-minded people in your area. Signing in ensures that you will receive important information and new resources throughout the Season.
10-WEEK TELESEMINAR SERIES:
For the first time this Fall, the Season for Intercultural and Interfaith Celebration (SIIC) 2010, invites you to participate in a highly unique program. AGNT is offering a ten week teleseries exploring intercultural and interfaith issues for today. Dr. Barbara Fields, Executive Director of AGNT and co-founder in 1997 of the Season for Peace and Nonviolence campaign, co-hosts with friend and colleague, Jim Kenney, former Global Director for the Parliament of Religions in Chicago and founder of Common Ground. A respected representative from each of the world's major spiritual traditions will join us in dialogue each week, discussing a unique theme.
GLOBAL ONENESS DAY PETITION:
Humanity’s Team is collecting at least 100,000 signatures to appeal to the United Nations and a broad coalition of partners to celebrate a global Oneness Day, a day set aside and embraced by individuals, communities and nations each year during which people celebrate, discuss, demonstrate and thus experience our commonality, while still acknowledging and respecting our beautiful cultural diversity . . . a shared day to unite in Oneness every year for the greater good of the Human Family.
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE:
Everything you need to know about the UN's International Day of Peace, September 21. We have included many educational materials, student resources, and additional information on UNESCO's Culture of Peace.
ORGANIZER'S GUIDES: Introduction to A Season for Interfaith Celebration, a step-by-step guide for creating a working task force with the people in your community, guidelines for interreligious dialogues and shared intentions.
ACTIVITIES & ACTIONS:
Here you will find lists of suggested actions to take with your task force group. We also have documented reports of all SIC events from past years, in which you will find loads of inspiration and ideas.
RESOURCES:
This is a comprehensive list of relevant websites, films, religion directories, and interfaith prayers.
EVENTS CALENDAR:
Master calendar for all Season for Interfaith Celebration activities world-wide. Please add yours!
Posting your events here helps:
• SEASON FOR INTERFAITH CELEBRATION HEADQUARTERS to be aware of all the amazing work being done,
• YOU to be recognized and acknowledged for your efforts,
• OTHERS to be inspired and use your event as an example.
CONTACT
Season for the Earth Headquarters:
Association for Global New Thought
220 Santa Anita Rd
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
tel: 805-563-7343,
fax: 805-563-7344
Barbara Fields, Project Coordinator
Megan Stanek, Task Force Coordinator
span@agnt.org
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