Within the Parliament’s Peaceful Mission Is Spiritual Support for Embattled Ukraine
CHICAGO—The first Parliament of the World’s Religions, held in Chicago in 1893, was billed as a national dialogue about faith. Now, the event is known as the birth of the worldwide interfaith movement. Its 2023 edition, held Aug. 14-18 in Chicago, sustains that vision in new ways. Joe Grimm, the founder of the Michigan State University School of Journalism Bias Busters project, attended the 2023 Parliament and has provided us two stories and colorful photos as well.
FOCUSING ON UKRAINE is a story headlined: 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions shows the peaceful potential of our diverse faith traditions.
THEN, IN A REPORT HIGHLIGHTING one of the most important religious groups participating in the Parliament is this second story: Sikhs show the world their spiritual commitment to service at the 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions.
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From Our Authors
David Gushee
The Search for a Book to Teach Christian Ethics
NEWS FROM EUROPE THIS WEEK is reported in our Front Edge Publishing column: A major Christian scholar from Belgium has published a journal article recommending Dr. David Gushee’s new Introducing Christian Ethics to his colleagues in academia. Dr. Gushee and our team designed and published this unique multi-media book with the aim of welcoming both individual readers wanting to learn more about Christian perspectives on timely issues—and academic scholars and students around the world who are studying this centuries-old field of Christian ethical teaching.
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Holidays & Milestones
Labor Day celebrations—and memories
IT’S ABOUT MORE THAN FUN, SALES AND TRAVEL—Our Holidays & Festivals columnist Stephanie Fenton reports on both 2023 travel trends for this big holiday weekend—and about the rich history of the American labor movement.
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Are you ready for the New Year 5784?
ROSH HASHANA STARTS SUNSET SEPTEMBER 15—Holidays & Festivals columnist Stephanie Fenton reports on the Jewish New Year, which starts the period known as the Jewish High Holy Days. Yom Kippur starts at sunset on Sunday, September 24 this year. And, yes, as always, Stephanie has gathered some wonderfully delicious links to holiday recipes.
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WANT TO SEE ALL OF THE UPCOMING HOLIDAYS & FESTIVALS?—It’s easy to find our annual calendar of global observances. Just remember the web address: InterfaithHolidays.com
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Faith & Film
ED McNULTY, for decades, has published reviews, magazine articles and books exploring connections between faith and film. Most of his work is freely published. Ed supports his work by selling the Visual Parables Journal, a monthly magazine packed with discussion guides to films. This resource is used coast-to-coast by individuals who love the movies and by educators, clergy and small-group leaders.
Here are some of Ed’s most recent free reviews and columns:
- GOLDA—Ed writes, “Reactions to this film have been mixed, though the majority of critics have praised Helen Mirren’s remarkable performance, enhanced by prosthetics and wig, as the title character.”
- JULES—”Director Marc Turtletaub’s film is a modest tale about a 79-year-old widower living in a small western Pennsylvania town. With a plot similar in some ways with E.T. or Close Encounters…, it is less a science fiction film than it is a parable of aging and loneliness.”
- THE LAW ACCORDING TO LYDIA POËT—Ed highly recommends this new Netflix series about Italy’s first female lawyer.
- OPPENHEIMER—”Christopher Nolan’s massive film, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, shows how the scientist that presided over Trinity clearly understood” the power he had unleashed.
- TIGER WITHIN—”It is good to see that actor Ed Asner’s last film was one decrying ignorance and advocating love, forgiveness and friendship.”
- BARBIE—”I was thankful for the TIME magazine article that convinced me that I should watch Barbie despite my many reservations regarding it.”
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