Rumi Forum Scriptural Reasoning: Lament

Center for Anglican Communion Studies

For our final Rumi Forum of the fall semester, join us to discuss the topic of lament; study leader Dr. Ori Soltes, Georgetown University.

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.Our study leader this month is Ori Z. Soltes Professor of Teaching, Georgetown University, and member of the Board of Directors of the Rumi Forum.Ori Z. Soltes is Professorial Lecturer in Theology and Fine Arts at Georgetown University and former Director of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, where he curated over 80 exhibitions on a variety of subjects. He is the author of articles, exhibition catalogs, essays, and books on a range of topics, including Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; The Ashen Rainbow: Essays on the Arts and the Holocaust; Mysticism in Judaism. Christianity and Islam: Searching for Oneness; Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art and Architecture; Magic and Religion in the Greco-Roman World: The Beginnings of Judaism and Christianity; and God and the Goalposts: A Brief History of Sports, Religion, Politics, War, and Art.He also wrote Embracing the World: Fethullah Gulen’s Thought &amp; Its Relationship with Jelaluddin Rumi and Others (2013) and Between Thought and Action: An Intellectual Biography of Fethullah Gulen (2022).Due to a scheduling conflict, this session is now being held in Addison 201 (upstairs from LPER). 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.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>.The text pack for this session can be found <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ec3ksaghxart52aju52x5/Text-Pack-Lament.pdf?rlkey=cppo0mrulxd4ap2dzi98cudrf&amp;st=2z5eckni&amp;dl=0" title="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ec3ksaghxart52aju52x5/Text-Pack-Lament.pdf?rlkey=cppo0mrulxd4ap2dzi98cudrf&amp;st=2z5eckni&amp;dl=0" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.You can join the seesion virtually <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83072003103" title="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83072003103" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

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