This Wed Eve - Faith and Community

[Mark Barrett]

Salaam Shalom and Peace

Hopefully we are taking forward a strong Faith and Community Agenda at
the following meeting on Wednesday eve.

Would be good if people would like to come along and help take the
discussion forward in a practical and inspiring way!

Best wishes

Mark

STUDY / ACTION CIRCLE - Faith In The 21st Century
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
7:00 PM

The Dialogue Society / Rumi Mosque
337 Fore Street, Edmonton, London, N9 0NU (edit map)

We are told we live in a Secular age and in many ways we do. Yet in
the 21st century we have seen a revival in faith based movements and
an interest in spirituality. How do we understand this and how can we
all live together respecting each other's convictions.

We are holding a study circle to explore this to see if we can
understand better each other's position and to examine how we can
continue dialogue and possibly social action across boundaries. We
want to explore the established religions, the advent of new religious
movements, the growing interest in spirituality and the changing face
of humanism as it responds to this.

This new circle is being convened by Mark Barrett who has got together
a group of people who want to explore interfaith dialogue and to
include all faiths and none in North London. Possible concrete aims
for this project have already been put forward by others in his area,
with suggestions as follows:

(1) Values and Action - exploration of universal values, to discuss
how different faiths and humanism treat those values, identify common
ground and possibly develop concrete action projects together.

(2) Abrahamic Scriptural Reasoning - exploration of Judaism,
Christianity and Islam to study and discuss together how each
religion's scriptures and religious practices treat, for example
different scriptural episodes, universal values and/or prophetic
characters, and then on to a wider discussion of ramifications, in
terms of individual and social action in the modern secular world.

This will therefore be the first meeting of what we hope will be an
ongoing study and /or possibly an action circle.

http://www.meetup.com/21stCenturyNetwork/events/106294392/

PS. Many thanks to Brother Fatih for arranging the venue.