From Enemy to Friend: Jewish Reflections on Everyday Peacemaking

Why does conflict arise among individuals and among religious, political, and ethnic groups? What contributes to the resolution of conflict in the world and in our lives? How can each of us serve the cause of peace? Rabbi Amy Eilberg explores these questions through the lens of Judaism’s rich body of sacred texts on peace and peacemaking

Seek Peace and Pursue It

This is the third lecture in a series of four. The Psalmist commands us to seek peace and pursue it. The command is not only for diplomats, elected officials, or specialists. It is for all of us. How will we live into this command in our own lives, and what would the world be like if we did? The Series: Drawing on Judaism\u27s rich body of sacred texts about peace and peacemaking, which she explores in her recently published From Enemy to Friend: Jewish Wisdom and the Pursuit of Peace, Rabbi Amy Eilberg, the first woman ordained as a rabbi in Judaism\u27s Conservative Movement and a Jay Phillips Center rabbi-in-residence, will discuss why conflict arises among individuals and groups, what contributes to the resolution of conflict, and how each of us can serve the cause of peace. Click here to see the series homepage. Sponsored by Islamic Center of Minnesota, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, and Mount Zion TempleCo-Sponsored by the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning and St. Paul Interfaith Network (SPIN) To make an accessibility request, call Disability Resources at (651) 962-631

The Practice of Peace: Training the Heart and Mind for Peace

This is the second lecture in a series of four. What are the essential capacities needed if we are to be seekers and pursuers of peace? In this experiential workshop,participants examine some of the middot/qualities of soul that supportour efforts to be peacemakers in our lives. The Series: Drawing on Judaism\u27s rich body of sacred texts about peace and peacemaking, which she explores in her recently published From Enemy to Friend: Jewish Wisdom and the Pursuit of Peace, Rabbi Amy Eilberg, the first woman ordained as a rabbi in Judaism\u27s Conservative Movement and a Jay Phillips Center rabbi-in-residence, will discuss why conflict arises among individuals and groups, what contributes to the resolution of conflict, and how each of us can serve the cause of peace. Click here to see the series homepage. Sponsored by Islamic Center of Minnesota, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, and Mount Zion TempleCo-Sponsored by the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning and St. Paul Interfaith Network (SPIN

Seek Peace and Pursue It

This is the third lecture in a series of four. The Psalmist commands us to seek peace and pursue it. The command is not only for diplomats, elected officials, or specialists. It is for all of us. How will we live into this command in our own lives, and what would the world be like if we did? The Series: Drawing on Judaism\u27s rich body of sacred texts about peace and peacemaking, which she explores in her recently published From Enemy to Friend: Jewish Wisdom and the Pursuit of Peace, Rabbi Amy Eilberg, the first woman ordained as a rabbi in Judaism\u27s Conservative Movement and a Jay Phillips Center rabbi-in-residence, will discuss why conflict arises among individuals and groups, what contributes to the resolution of conflict, and how each of us can serve the cause of peace. Click here to see the series homepage. Sponsored by Islamic Center of Minnesota, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, and Mount Zion Temple Co-Sponsored by the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning and St. Paul Interfaith Network (SPIN

From Enemy to Friend: Jewish Reflections on Everyday Peacemaking

Drawing on Judaism\u27s rich body of sacred texts about peace and peacemaking, Rabbi Amy Eilberg, the first woman ordained as a rabbi in Judaism\u27s Conservative Movement and a Jay Phillips Center rabbi-in-residence, explored why conflict arises among individuals and groups, what contributes to the resolution of conflict, and how each of us can serve the cause of peace. Sponsored by the Jay Phillips Center in collaboration with the UST department of justice and peace studies To make an accessibility request, call Disability Resources at (651) 962-631

Peace Among Religions

This is the fourth lecture in a series of four. It has been said that there can be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. How can rigorous and respectful dialogue with the religious “other” contribute to peace in the world? What does the practice of dialogue teach us about how to live in a world of diversity? The Series: Drawing on Judaism\u27s rich body of sacred texts about peace and peacemaking, which she explores in her recently published From Enemy to Friend: Jewish Wisdom and the Pursuit of Peace, Rabbi Amy Eilberg, the first woman ordained as a rabbi in Judaism\u27s Conservative Movement and a Jay Phillips Center rabbi-in-residence, will discuss why conflict arises among individuals and groups, what contributes to the resolution of conflict, and how each of us can serve the cause of peace. Click here to see the series homepage. Sponsored by Islamic Center of Minnesota, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, and Mount Zion TempleCo-Sponsored by the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning and St. Paul Interfaith Network (SPIN) To make an accessibility request, call Disability Resources at (651) 962-631

Calling in Today\u27s World: Multifaith Perspectives

What does a Buddhist think about calling? Does a Jew have a similar sense of vocation as a Christian? Do people besides Christians have a sense of calling? While most religious traditions do not share the same notion of calling as Christians, they do, in fact, have surprisingly similar concepts and practices. In a new book, Calling in Today\u27s World: Voices from Eight Faith Perspectives, experts representing Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, Daoist, secular humanist, and Catholic and Protestant Christian traditions explore how callings are experienced and lived within their communities of faith. This ground-breaking volume offers key texts, stories, persons, concepts, and discernment practices that exemplify each tradition\u27s view of vocation as well as how modern life poses both difficulties and opportunities for living out a sense of calling. As the United States becomes more religiously diverse, members of faith communities meet every day in college classes, work places, neighborhoods, volunteer organizations, and efforts for social change. If people of faith want to live and work together for the common good, understanding each other\u27s values and beliefs is imperative. Learning how others experience a sense of calling and live with meaning and purpose can enliven and deepen connections across communities. The three panelists for this program - representing the Jewish, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions - are contributors to Calling in Today\u27s World, and the moderator - a Christian - is one of the book\u27s editors

The Face of God: Mercy in the Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Traditions

Pope Francis inaugurated what he declared to be the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy this past December 8, saying “the celebration of this feast involves . . . fully accepting God and his merciful grace in our lives” and “becoming, in turn, artisans of mercy.” As Francis also has urged Catholics to engage in interfaith dialogue and learning, this program will focus on the meaning and practice of mercy as found not only in the Christian tradition but also in the Islamic and Jewish traditions as well. Dr. Hamdy El-Sawaf is the founding director of the Al-Wafaa Center for Human Services in Minneapolis, a psychotherapist actively involved in the Minnesota Council of Churches Healing Resources for Refugees initiative, and an imam at Masjid Al-Iman Mosque in northeast Minneapolis. Rabbi Amy Eilberg directs interfaith programs sponsored by the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning, teaches at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities and St. Catherine University, and is the author of From Enemy to Friend: Jewish Wisdom and the Pursuit of Peace (Orbis Books, 2014). Rev. Michael Joncas, a liturgical theologian and composer of Catholic music, taught for many years in the department of theology at the University of St. Thomas, where he is now University Artist-in-Residence and Fellow at the Center for Catholic Studies. Questions? Contact Office for Mission at 651-962-5200 or [email protected] Sponsored by the Office for Mission, the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning, and the Muslim Christian Dialogue Center at the University of St. Thomas To make an accessibility request, call Disability Resources at (651) 962-631

Religious Understandings of Hospice and Palliative Care

How do the various religious traditions understand what it means to have a good death? What might we learn from our religious neighbors about what constitutes appropriate hospice and palliative care? These questions and others will be discussed from Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim perspectives. This program will be facilitated by Rabbi David Wirtschafter, the Jay Phillips Center\u27s visiting scholar in Jewish Studies, and grew out of an interfaith reading group sponsored by the Jay Phillips Center and facilitated by Barbara Marincel, an intern-scholar with the Jay Phillips Center and graduate student in theology at St. Catherine University. Panelists Owais Bayunus is the past president of the Islamic Center of Minnesota and currently serves as the director of its interfaith activities. He serves on the boards of the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition and the Muslim-Christian Dialogue Center at the University of St. Thomas, and he is the author of When Death Approaches, which instructs caregivers about end-of-life care for Muslim patients. Rabbi Amy Eilberg, a special consultant to the Jay Phillips Center, co-founded the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center, where she directed the Jewish Hospice Care Program, and she also co-founded and co-directed the Yedidya Center for Jewish Spiritual Direction. She is nationally known as a leader of the Jewish healing movement and in the field of Jewish spiritual direction. Joen Snyder O\u27Neal is an ordained Zen priest who received dharma transmission from Katagiri Roshi in 1989. She teaches at Compassionate Ocean Dharma Center and has written on a number of topics from a Zen perspective, including end-of-life care. Joan Olson is a board-certified chaplain at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis working with the Palliative Care team, a certified spiritual director through Sacred Ground Center for Spirituality, and has served as a supervisor for Sacred Ground’s spiritual director training program. Sponsored by the Jay Phillips Center in collaboration with the Master of Arts in Theology program at St. Catherine Universityand the Muslim-Christian Dialogue Center at the University of St. Thomas To make an accessibility request, call Disability Resources at (651) 962-631