May 2010

Working Locally,  Thinking Globally

    Southern California Committee      

  for a Parliament of the World's Religions

 

Third Annual Interfaith Tall Ships Sailing Adventure on Sat., May 22

 

 
The South Coast Interfaith Council and the Southern California Committee for a Parliament of the World’s Religions
invite youth leaders,young adults and teens
 from different faith traditions
to pull together for interfaith understanding
 
Sail in harmony with the wind and waves
aboard LAMI’s twin tall ships for a real-life adventure in genuine cooperation!
Everyone is needed to raise and trim the sails, set and steer our course;
some may climb the rigging and work aloft…
 
Make reservations by May 18 for your leader-youth team with Anthony Manousos at interfaithquaker@aol.com (Space limited. first come, first-served.) For middle-schoolers and up. Please make checks payable to “LA Maritime Institute” and send c/o Anthony Manousos, 3817 Albright Ave, Los Angeles CA 90066. Suggested donation $55. Click here for permssion slip 
 
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Noon – 4 pm sailing, then stay to share faith connections aboard and ashore.
Exchange water wisdom from faith traditions and create our own from this experience
 
Welcome Aboard at Berth 78, Ports O’ Call Village, San Pedro
Wear comfortable clothes, soft-soled shoes, and
bring extra warm layers with hood or watch/ski cap for cool winds.BYO Lunch/Snack
 
Directions: From 110-Harbor Freeway or 710 to cross Terminal Island, over Vincent Thomas Bridge.
Take Harbor Blvd. Exit, stay right and turn right at light onto Harbor Blvd.
Proceed to turn left at light at foot of 6th St. over tracks, then Right at LA Maritime Museum.
At signs for ‘Ports O’ Call Village’ turn Left, to open lot by Berth 78, sign on posts in parking lot.
Go down right walkway, thru gate and down ramp to floating dock to board ship before noon.
 
Questions on the sailing? Call Nancy Richardson at 310-429-3277310-833-6055 or via email to nrichardson@lamitopsail.org
LA Maritime Institute, Berth 84, Foot of 6th St.,
San Pedro, Ca 90731 
 
 

 

   

 Members of SCCPWR at their annual retreat in January 2010.

 

  

Upcoming Events

Interfaith Events for Adults and Youth will be happening almost every month in the greater LA area. You are welcome to join our efforts to work locally and think globally

 
Sunday, May 16: First Annual SCCPWR Interfaith Awards Banquet at the Center for Spiritual Living, 907 Knob Hill Avenue, Redondo Beach, CA 90277. Workshops 4:00-5:45 PM. Banquet: 6:00-9:00. Individual: $55. Low/fixed income: $25. Student: $20. Table of eight: $400.
 
Saturday, May 22: Third Annual Interfaith Tall Ships Sail. Co-sponsored by the South Coast Interfaith Council and the Maritime Institute. Noon till 5:00 PM at San Pedro Harbor. Suggested donation: $55.
 
June 6-10: Globalization for the Common Good Conference on “In Search of a Virtuous Economy” to take place at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks CA. 91360. Details TBA. 
 
SCCPWR is co-sponsoroing SCIC's Interfaith Cafés--small group discussions for laity, youth (9th - 12th graders) and religious leaders about how faith both impacts their daily lives and allows them to relate to and appreciate those from other faith traditions. Due to popular demand, there will be four SCIC Interfaith Cafes this summer!

Sunday, May 23: St. Joseph Catholic, 6220 Willow St., Long Beach

Sunday, June 13: Holy Spirit Fellowship, 1115 Market St., Long Beach

Sunday, July 11: Seaside Community Church, 22940 Ocean Ave., Torrance

Sunday, August 8: The Neighborhood Church, 415 Paseo del Mar, Palos Verdes Estates

All SCIC Interfaith Cafes are from 2 - 5 p.m. Refreshments will be served and a free-will offering is taken. For more information, contact the SCIC at 562-983-1665

  COME AND HELP SCCPWR CELEBRATE 

OUR FIRST ANNUAL INTERFAITH AWARDS BANQUET:  

Joining Hands to Save the Planet

An event to honor organizations and youth that have made a significant contribution to interfaith work in Southern California

Sunday, May 16, 2010

4:00-5:45 PM (Optional workshops)

6:00 -9:00 pm (Banquet)

at the Center for Spiritual Living,

907 Knob Hill Ave, Redondo Beach CA 90277

Keynote Speaker:

Rosemary Radford Ruether

Professor of Feminist Theology at Claremont and author of Gaia and God: An Eco-feminist  Theology of Earth Healing 

Music by Stephen Longfellow Fiske, UDC Minister and Eco-Activist, MTO Sufis, and Zach Perlman ("Monks Without Borders")

Honorees will include:

ICUJP (Steve Rohde, President)

Orange County Interfaith Coalition on the Environment (Margaret Henke)

Pacifica Institute (Ibrahim Barlas and Attila Kahveci)

South Coast Interfaith Council (Milia Islam-Majeed, Executive Director)

S.A.R.A.H. (Sande Hart, Founder and Executive Director)

Unity and Diversity Council (Leland Stewart, founder)

 

 

SOLD OUT!

 

Southern California Committee for a Parliament of the World’s Religions 

www.sccpwr.org

Our keynote speaker: Rosemary Reuther, Eco-Feminist, Scholar and Peace Activist
 
Rosemary Radford Ruether holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Scripps College (1958), an M.A. in Ancient History (1960) and a Ph.D. in Classics and Patristics (1965) from Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California.

She currently is Visiting Professor of Feminist Theology at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University. She formerly was Carpenter Professor of Feminist Theology at the Pacific School of Religion and Graduate Theological Union, and also taught at the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Ruether is the author of many books on feminism, the Bible and Christianity.

She has for thirty years been considered a pioneer in the area of feminist theology in North America, with a particular focus on gender, ecology,social justice isues,and liberation theology, especially in Palestine and Latin America. She has also been an outspoken critic of war since the Vietnam era and continues this work today. (from Wikipedia)

In 2004 she and her family attended the Parliament of the World's Religions in Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Reuther is deeply committed to interfaith work and peacemaking.

  • Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing, Harper-Collins (1994).
  • Integrating Ecofeminism Globalization and World Religions", Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (2005).
  • Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology, Beacon Press (1993).
  • In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women’s Religious Writing (ed. with Rosemary Skinner Keller), Harper-Collins (1996).
  • Introducing Redemption in Christian Feminism (editor), Continuum (1998).
  • The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Augsburg Fortress (2002).
  • America, Amerikkka: Elect Nation & Imperial Violence, Equinox (2007).
How you can become involved
 To find out how you can take part as a Friend or member of our organization, contact Ruth Broyde Sharone at rabsharone@aol.com. Our next steering committee meeting will take place on Saturday, June 5, from 2:00-5:00 PM. Visitors are welcome.
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