Meeting the other: Can we talk?
The Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center in North Carolina will host an interfaith peace conference March 1-4, 2018.
Registration is now open for the 2018 Interfaith Peace Conference at the Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center.
According to its website, “Our society is divided culturally, politically, economically, and racially. Educational level, sexual identity, geographical region, ethnicity, race, and class have divided our nation. As a result of these growing divisions within our society, we are not listening to one another.”
The conference, titled “Meeting the Other: Can We Talk?”, seeks to build the art of talking and listening.
Keynote speakers include the Rev. Dr. T. Anthony Spearman, Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, Ph.D., and Dr. Juliane Hammer.
Spearman is the pastor of St. Phillip African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Greensboro, North Carolina. He also serves as the president of both the North Carolina Council of Churches and the North Carolina NAACP.
Kreimer teaches religious studies at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College where she was ordained in 1982. Her current project, “Campus Chaplaincy for a Multifaith World,” brings together Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu and Humanist chaplains serving college campuses.
Hammer teaches Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She specializes in the study of American Muslims, contemporary Muslim thought, women and gender in Islam, and Sufism.
The weekend will also include opportunities for interfaith worship, small group reflection, and several workshops.
Visit the interfaith peace conference’s website for more information and to register.
