Nonviolence from a Christian Perspective

Interfaith Awareness Week celebrates a decade of tolerance

Meaning of Peace by Madison Area Spiritual Leaders

2010 Multifaith Calendar
Dear Friends, Multifaith calendars at the Interfaith Awareness Week meeting: Tuesday November 3, 2009 at 6pm at Perkins (University Avenue, Madison).  The price of $10 each is good only as supplies last. Paid orders will be shipped the next business day.    * * * * * * * * * * * * *  

Charter puts a new face on the Golden Rule
Charter puts a new face on the Golden RuleKaren Armstrong and Archbishop Desmond TutuCape Town/London - On 27 September at the Vancouver Peace Summit, amongstsome of the world’s most well-known peace-makers–including Nobel Prizewinners and internationally-acclaimed authors–we had the opportunity toinvite people everywhere to rediscover the Golden Rule.The Charter of Compassion was composed by leading thinkers from manydifferent faiths. It is a cooperative effort to restore not onlycompassionate thinking but, more importantly, compassionate action to thecentre of religious, moral and political life. Compassion is

Interfaith Acitivity in the Madison Area
Upcoming Interfaith Activity in the Madison Area ANNOUNCEMENTS:  (from Madison Interfaith Dialogue - Oct. 14, 2009 - Notes from Ellie Jacobi) 1. Our December meeting will be at the state capitol building from 10 – 12, prior to the Interfaith Awareness gathering at noon in the rotunda.  Give yourself time before or after to look at the various interfaith displays.  More details will be available at our regular November meeting. [Displays

nain.org updates and Charter for Compassion
NAIN - NORTH AMERICAN INTERFAITH NETWORKI would like to invite you all to visit our public website http://www.nain.org  to see the recently updated membership map. If you click on 'View NAIN NA in a larger map', you are taken to the online, interactive Google map with a side panel listing of our members. The membership list has also been updated.Below the map is a link to an extensive online archive of NAINConnect '09. You might find it a useful resource.I always welcome submissions on topics of interfaith interest for NAINews. For the Fall issue, I would like to set a

Faith-based & relief groups settle on spiritual care of disaster survivors
Disaster survivors to receive one standard of care Faith-based & relief groups settle on principlesSeptember 15, 2009 -- More than 20 faith-based organizations in the UnitedStates for the first time have set minimum standards of care in a 10-pointdocument that defines how to minister emotionally and spiritually to peoplein times of disaster."It is a true realization of their faith when Catholics, Scientologists,Protestants, Evangelicals, Buddhists and Jews can sit down together anddefine the standards of spiritual care for the benefit of disastersurvivors," said Diana Rothe-Smith, executive director of National VoluntaryOrganizations Activ