From: Asheville Interfaith
Subject: Events, Holy Days, and News (September Update 2016)
Welcome to the AshevilleInterfaith.org email newsletter. A copy of this monthly newsletter can also be found at http://www.ashevilleinterfaith.org/newsletter.html. This is a special update because of new events, holy day listings, and articles.
Please feel free to forward this newsletter to anyone you think might also be interested. Anyone wishing to also receive future newsletter emails may email newsletter@ashevilleinterfaith.org. To be removed from future emails, please email newsletter@ashevilleinterfaith.org and we’ll do so immediately.
AshevilleInterfaith.org is an effort to support and promote faith-based activities, events, connections, and conversation in the Asheville area. There will be a special focus on uplifting events that are open to the public and specifically intended to help bring together individuals from diverse faith-based communities.
To submit information, or for specific questions, suggestions, or corrections, contact Steve Hargadon (steve@hargadon.com) or Vicki Garlock (faithseekerkids@gmail.com ).
Thank you!
EVENTS
NEW ARTICLES (posted on the Facebook Group Page)
Subject: Events, Holy Days, and News (September Update 2016)
Welcome to the AshevilleInterfaith.org email newsletter. A copy of this monthly newsletter can also be found at http://www.ashevilleinterfaith.org/newsletter.html. This is a special update because of new events, holy day listings, and articles.
Please feel free to forward this newsletter to anyone you think might also be interested. Anyone wishing to also receive future newsletter emails may email newsletter@ashevilleinterfaith.org. To be removed from future emails, please email newsletter@ashevilleinterfaith.org and we’ll do so immediately.
AshevilleInterfaith.org is an effort to support and promote faith-based activities, events, connections, and conversation in the Asheville area. There will be a special focus on uplifting events that are open to the public and specifically intended to help bring together individuals from diverse faith-based communities.
- Website: http://www.AshevilleInterfaith.org (basic information)
- Join the Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ashevilleinterfaith (for article posting, conversations, and event listing)
- Join the Meetup.com Group: http://www.meetup.com/AshevilleInterfaith (specifically for organized, interfaith events)
To submit information, or for specific questions, suggestions, or corrections, contact Steve Hargadon (steve@hargadon.com) or Vicki Garlock (faithseekerkids@gmail.com ).
Thank you!
EVENTS
- 3rd Saturday Dances of Universal Peace with Shemsuddin Millard, Saturday, September 17th, 7:30pm. Facebook link.
- Asheville: International City of Peace Events
- Authors Speak Peace, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2 PM, The Block off Biltmore. Featured authors: DeWayne Barton, Cecil Bothwell, Clare Hanrahan, and Jeff Messer.
- Drumming for Peace, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 7 PM, Center for Spiritual Living, 2 Science of Mind Way
- Asheville’s Peace Proclamation: Add your group by calling Mayor Manheimer's Office at 828-259-5600
- Entries for Student Art for Peace awards accepted through 9/7/2016. Categories are: essays, poetry, videos, and artwork
- For additional details check out http://www.wnc4peace.com.
- Authors Speak Peace, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2 PM, The Block off Biltmore. Featured authors: DeWayne Barton, Cecil Bothwell, Clare Hanrahan, and Jeff Messer.
- Peace Week at Center for Art and Spirit, September 18 - 25 full schedule here. Activities each day, with special events on Saturday 9/24, 10 - 4.
- Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America meets the third Monday of each month. Next meeting: Monday, Sept. 19, 4:30 pm, St Mary's Episcopal Church, 337 Charlotte St., Asheville
- September 21, 7:30PM, Rev. Hoshu Kurata lecture, Great Tree Zen Temple (679 Lower Flat Creek Road, Alexander). Resident priest at Rintoji Temple in Toyama Prefecture, Japan, Rev. Kurata will discuss (Now, Here, the Self). Event is free, but please leave a donation for the speaker, if possible. For more information, visit http://www.greattreetemple.org/events/
- 30th Annual Greek Festival, Sept. 23 - 25, Holy Trinity Greek Orth. Church and MHCC Event Ctr.
- Food, music, art, and other merchandise.
- Vespers service on Saturday evening (public invited)
- Additional details coming soon on the Holy Trinity web site and FB page. http://www.holytrinityasheville.com/greekfestival/ or https://www.facebook.com/Asheville-Greek-Festival-240375666006657/
- Food, music, art, and other merchandise.
- Urban Dharma 5th Anniv. Celebration, Friday, Sept. 30 - Saturday, Oct. 8, 29 Page Ave., 28801
- Construction and dissolution of a Tibetan Buddhist sand mandala
- Asheville Interfaith Event: Spiritual Food, Thursday, Oct. 6, 7 - 9 PM. Please contact us if you are interested in sharing a food item and a brief message about why it’s important in your tradition.
- Further details coming soon on the Urban Dharma web site and FB page, as well as various media outlets. http://udharmanc.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/urbandharma/?fref=ts
- Construction and dissolution of a Tibetan Buddhist sand mandala
- Nine Days of Mother Divine events, Oct. 1 - 10, at Mount Soma and Sri Somesvara Vedic Temple, Clyde, NC. Honor the nine incarnations of the Divine Mother. As divinity dwells within us, this is a powerful time for transformation. The pujas enliven a different aspect of the goddess each day, and the concurrent Meditation Retreat facilitates a profound resting into our divine nature. For more information on the specific deity honored each day and times/dates of pujas, see http://shopping.srisomesvara.org/sharad-navaratri-dussehra.html. You can also combine the powerful pujas with a meditation retreat (10-day and 4-day weekend options). For more information, see http://www.mountsoma.org/product-category/retreats/. For directions to Mount Soma, go to http://www.mountsoma.org/contact-us/directions/. For more information on Temple etiquette, go tohttp://srisomesvara.org/info/temple-etiquette/. Questions? Contact Dave Ehmke at dave@mountsoma.org.
- Sept. 21: United Nations International Day of Peace
- September 22: Mabon (northern hemisphere) or Ostara (southern hemisphere) = Wiccan/Neo-Pagan celebration of the fall (northern hemisphere) or spring (southern hemisphere) equinox, loosely defined as the date on which the length of the day and the length of the night are equal.
- Jewish High Holidays
- Rosh Hashanah begins the evening of Sunday, Oct. 2 and continues through Tuesday, Oct. 4. A schedule of Day 1 and Day 2 services at Cognregation Beth Israel (Conservative) can be found at http://www.bethisraelnc.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=HH5777-Schedule
- Yom Kippur begins the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 11 with Kol Nidre services (when fasting begins) and continues until the evening of Wed., Oct. 12 when fasting ends. A more detailed schedule can be found at http://www.bethisraelnc.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=HH5777-Schedule.
- Tickets are not required, but no money is handled on Holy Days, so please make your donation, in advance, at http://www.bethisraelnc.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=WebCheckPayments&category=SupportingtheCommunity. Questions? Contact Vicki Garlock at vicki@faithseekerkids.com.
- Rosh Hashanah begins the evening of Sunday, Oct. 2 and continues through Tuesday, Oct. 4. A schedule of Day 1 and Day 2 services at Cognregation Beth Israel (Conservative) can be found at http://www.bethisraelnc.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=HH5777-Schedule
NEW ARTICLES (posted on the Facebook Group Page)
- Farm the Land, Grow the Spirit by Vicki Garlock. The Interfaith Observer, September 15, 2016.
- 7 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Wailing Wall by by Jared Brock. onfaith.
- Saint names dropped from 12 Midwest hospitals by Lauren Markoe. Religion News Service, September 7, 2016.
- Meet Nancy Petty, by Katy Barron and Frank Stasio. wunc.com, September 12, 2016.
- Islamic Holidays: Eid al-Adha Explained, by Huda. http://islam.about.com/, updated September 13, 2016.
- Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest (website).
- Interfaith Satire: Pope Francis Hosts Feathered Serpent God As Part Of Deity Exchange Program. The ONION, September 9th.
- Postcard From Mecca, By Diaa Hadid and Erica Berenstein. NY Times Video, Sep. 9, 2016
- 8 Muslim Youths Carried The Last Rites Of A Hindu Man, After His Family Refused. The Logical India, September 7, 2016
- How this Californian project is bringing Muslims and Latinos together, by Jessica Kwong, The Orange County Register. Thestar.com, September 1, 2016.
- Sikh Indians attend St. Teresa's canonization ceremony. Rome Reports, September 5, 2016
- Nine candidates pioneer ‘political humanism’ in Arizona, by Kimberly Winston. RELIGION NEWS SERVICE, August 25, 2016.
- September 1: World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. GLOBAL CATHOLIC CLIMATE MOVEMENT.
- A Baptist Pastor’s Plea To Love Our Muslim Neighbors by Rev. Dr. Chris George. Huffington Post, August 30, 2016.
- A CATHOLIC SISTER, A BUDDHIST NUN, AND TWO RABBIS: FRIENDSHIP THAT GOES BEYOND “INTERFAITH” by Matthew Gindin. USC Annenberg - Religion Dispatches. August 30, 2016.