Rumi Forum Scriptural Reasoning: Empathy

Center for Anglican Communion Studies

Join us for the first Rumi Forum discussion of the academic year!

Lettie Pate Evans Room, Addison Academic Center

Center for Anglican Communion Studies 2024-2025

This collection incudes the Center for Anglican Communion Studies' (CACS) events for the 2024-2025 academic year. This year's theme is “You are My Witnesses.”

Participation in this forum is available both in person and virtually.Scriptural Reasoning (SR) is a practice where Christians, Jews, and Muslims study each other’s sacred texts. SR participants meet once a month to read short passages from their respective scriptures on a certain topic. Facilitated by a study leader, each session is an opportunity to listen and share various perspectives. SR sessions help participants reflect on a curious list of topics within the Abrahamic tradition. The result is often a deeper understanding of others and one’s own scriptures, as well as the development of strong bonds across faith communities. This month's facilitator is Yehuda Stolov, the executive director of the Interfaith Encounter Association. The IEA works to build peaceful inter-communal relations in the Holy Land by fostering mutual respect and trust between people and communities through active interfaith dialogue. Dr. Stolov has lectured on the role of religious dialogue in peace-building throughout the world, including Jordan, India, Indonesia, Turkey, South Korea, North America and Europe. He also published many papers on related issues.In 2006, he was awarded the Immortal Chaplains Foundation's Prize for Humanity, which honors those who "risked all to protect others of a different faith or ethnic origin"; and in 2015 he was awarded the IIE Victor J. Goldberg Prize for Peace in the Middle East.Among other activities, Dr. Stolov was a member of the International Council of the International Association for Religious Freedom and a member of the steering committee for the United Nations Decade of Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation for Peace.He holds a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Physics and a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is married and father of three children, living in Jerusalem. The Center for Anglican Communion Studies at VTS is also hosting a Scriptural Reasoning beginning facilitator training the same night as this SR discussion on Empathy! The training will begin at 5:30 pm in Addison 107 (same building as the Rumi Forum session), and participants will join the session on Empathy at 6:30 as part of the training. After the Empathy session, the training will resume in Addison 107 concluding at 9:30 pm. Dinner will be served and will include halal and kosher options. Our trainers are from the leaders in Scriptural Reasoning, <a href="https://www.rosecastlefoundation.org/" title="https://www.rosecastlefoundation.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">the Rose Castle Foundation</a>, so this is an opportunity not to be missed! If you are interested in learning how to lead a SR discussion, please learn more and sign up at this <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scriptural-reasoning-beginning-facilitator-training-tickets-968630890067" title="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scriptural-reasoning-beginning-facilitator-training-tickets-968630890067">link</a>. We hope you can join us! We would like to thank Rose Castle Foundation for their permission to use <a href="http://www.scripturalreasoning.org/" title="http://www.scripturalreasoning.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.scripturalreasoning.org </a>content.You can join the session virtually <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81628408581" title="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81628408581" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.The text pack for this session can be found <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wae2eb5yqcy1n2jm7jo7m/Text-Pack-Empathy.pdf?rlkey=lapw8pbuww2ckm0ide2i9a4f1&st=un8qbofg&dl=0" title="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wae2eb5yqcy1n2jm7jo7m/Text-Pack-Empathy.pdf?rlkey=lapw8pbuww2ckm0ide2i9a4f1&st=un8qbofg&dl=0" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.A map of the VTS campus can be found <a href="https://vts.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/VTS-Campus-Map-10.19.21.pdf" title="https://vts.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/VTS-Campus-Map-10.19.21.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

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