Wednesday, 16 September 2015 - 10:27am
The day before 9-11, the anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers, hundreds of people gathered at Howard University in Washington, D.C. for the Fifth Annual President's Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge.http://www.ed.gov/edblogs/fbnp/files/2013/07/Invitation-to-Gathering.pdf
The significance of the date was not lost on anyone. None of the questions posed at the Challenge gathering evoked the word terrorism, yet anxiety quivers beneath the surface of interfaith gatherings. We know we are on holy ground, one that demands our best in order to overcome our bias and stigma, anger and self-righteousness. That capacity to peacefully navigate our deepest differences is at the root of saving us all from the destruction that is playing out around the world. (Read More)