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NON-VIOLENCE

Philosophy and Practice in World Religions

A facilitated dialogue with Mainland and Local Scholars

Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 6:30 p.m.

Honpa Hongwanji Hawaii Betsuin

1727 Pali Highway, Honolulu

• Dr. Dale Bishop, former Executive Minister of UCC Wider Church Ministries, is a Middle East Scholar and has written extensively on Iran, Lebanon, and the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
• Imam Ismail M.M. Elshikh, Ph.D. of the Hawai'i Muslim Association and visiting professor of Islamic studies at the Graduate Theological Foundation and Islamic University of Minnesota.
• Rev. Dr. David Greenhaw, President of Eden Theological Seminary and Professor of Preaching and Worship, is a frequent speaker and preacher at gatherings around the world. 
• Bishop Eric Matsumoto head of the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawai'i.
• Rabbi Peter Schaktman leader of the O'ahu Jewish 'Ohana. Prior to becoming a rabbi, he spent two years living in an Israeli Arab village as a community worker in Arab-Jewish relations.
• Rev. Dr. Damayanthi Niles, Professor of Constructive Theology at Eden Theological Seminary.

Sponsored by The Interfaith Alliance Hawai'i through a generous gift to Eden Seminary from Armin and Shirley Limper. For further information please contact Bishop Stephen Randolph Sykes at interfaithalliancehawaii@hawaii.rr.com or at (808) 561-6010.  

I am like a flag in the center of

Open space

I sense ahead the wind which is

Coming, and must live

It through.

While the things of the world

Still do not move,

The doors still close softly, and

The chimneys are full of silence,

The windows do not rattle yet,

And the dust still lies down.

I already know the storm, and I

Am troubled as the sea.

I leap out, and fall back,

And throw myself out, and am

Absolutely alone

In the great storm.