Events

Barbara Brown Taylor, best-selling author, preacher, teacher and Episcopal priest, will speak with us about teaching and learning about world religions at a rural Southern college and how it has deepened her faith, the focus of her fourteenth and latest book, Holy Envy (2019). Time magazine included Barbara on their 2014 list of the most influential people the year. Named Georgia’s Woman of the Year in 2015, she has served on the facul-ties of Columbia Theological Seminary, the Candler School of Re-ligion at Emory University, and Piedmont College, among others. She is a frequent preacher and lecturer at the Chautauqua Institu-tion.

The afternoon panel will be facilitated by the Rev. Dr. Carol Flett, co-chair of the Montgomery County’s Faith Community Working Group.

What is American identity? What is the place of Muslims and immigrants in the US? How can different races, religions, and cultures live together in America? How we can understand the vision of the Founding Fathers of the country? To seek the answers, professor and Islamic scholar Akbar Ahmed and his team of young American researchers set out across the nation, visiting 75 cities and 100 mosques over one year.

The Interfaith Works Caring Breakfast attracts more than 400 leaders from the business, political, governmental and nonprofit communities, who gather to celebrate our partnerships that help uplift our neighbors in need. Interfaith Works serves over 17,000 people each year by empowering individuals and families with the tools and skills to lift themselves from poverty and homelessness.

Join the JCRC of Greater Washington online for our annual Yom Ha’Shoah Community Wide Commemoration.

Please sign up below to receive a link to the live stream and the program booklet so that you may follow along and participate from home. The links will be emailed prior to the commemoration.

“Unto Every Person there is a Name“, the annual reading for the names of those who perished in the Holocaust, will be shown on Tuesday, April 21, all day on the JCRC’s website.

Washington National Cathedral and Interfaith Power & Light co-host this online service focused on our shared call to climate action. Join us in prayer and song in honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.

Our traditions are beautiful in their diversity. Each offers a unique gift to our collective effort to protect our Earth with all her living communities. Leaders from Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Latter-Day Saints, Muslim, Sikh, Unitarian Universalist and other spiritual communities share their traditions’ gifts through sacred text, commentary, and song, and call us to collective action.

NO REGISTRATION NECESSARY! Watch online at CATHEDRAL.ORG/EARTHDAY, or live on Facebook.

Anti-Asian and anti-Jewish hate incidents have exploded due to the pandemic. Since March, Asian Americans have reported well over 1,600 acts of physical or verbal abuse across the country. Please join CUAH and our co-sponsors to learn more about this problem and how you can fight back.

Speakers include:

·        Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh

·        Maryland State Senator Susan Lee

·        Montgomery County Office of Human Rights Director Jim Stowe

·        APA Community Leader Judge Chung Pak

·        CUAH Senior Advisor Aryani Ong

·        ADL Senior Associate Regional Director Meredith Weisel

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Against the backdrop of sadness and pain that we are witnessing in our country, many of us are experiencing a daily struggle to cling to the positive values of compassion and civility that we need to thrive as a nation.  Join us as we lift up those around us and strive towards a more just and compassionate DMV at our 15th annual (virtual) Unity Walk, Sunday, September 13th, 2020.

Although we will not walk together in person this year, we will still come together to celebrate the diversity of our region, to visit houses of worship, and most importantly, to listen to each other with respect and love.  Now is time for us all to come together and unite around our shared humanity.

Montgomery County Faith Community Advisory Council and Montgomery County Public Schools Invite You

Engage with leadership from the county public school system and faith communities in a conversation on the status of virtual only learning in MCPS.

Click green “register” button to join the Zoom

SPEAKERS

Rev. Kasey Kaseman

Superintendent Jack Smith

Mr. Everett Davis (MCPS Office of Student and Family Support and Engagement)

Rabbi Abbi Sharofsky

Dr. Richa Agarwala

and more

Faith community leaders and decision-makers are invited to listen, learn, and discuss the redevelopment potential of their properties. Faith communities with excess land, underutilized structures, or declining income will have the opportunity to imagine new possibilities while continuing to serve their members.

Guest speaker:

Robert A. Kronenberg, Deputy Director, Montgomery County Planning Department

Get an overview of the county’s planning process, the status of the Thrive Montgomery 2050 master plan, and the importance of community involvement in the process.

Forum panel participants:

• Arlington Housing Corporation (AHC) / Habitat for Humanity
• Bozzuto Development Company
• Main Street Partners
• Neighborhood Development Company

Stretch your imagination as you listen to experienced developers explore ideas for faith-based properties, including affordable or senior housing units, and mixed-use development.

Please click the link below to join the webinar:

https://zoom.us/j/95285427628

Or mobile one-tap : (301) 715-8592

The Rev. Mansfield “Kasey” Kaseman is retiring this month from his position as Interfaith Community Liaison in the Montgomery County Office of Community Partnerships.

All are invited to join us virtually as we celebrate Rev. Kasey’s most recent work with the Faith Community Advisory Council, as well as his long career as a pastor, nonprofit founder and leader, and academic.

Help us thank Rev. Kasey for his dedicated service to our community, applaud his vision and leadership, and wish him well in his retirement.

Click here to join the virtual celebration and write Rev. Kasey a personal note