Join us Online: Hear Inspiring Stories About Healing our Hearts, Sept. 23, 2020

Inspiring Stories for Uncertain Times:

Healing Our Hearts

Wednesday, September 23, 2020 | 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time

Hello

The Guibord Center - Religion Inside Out and IslamiCity invite you to join us for a time of storytelling and guided conversation about healing our hearts. We’ll hear moving stories from people of various faith traditions about how their spiritual practices have helped them build a healthy and more loving relationship with themselves and others. You’ll have a chance to share your own experience in a small group setting. We’ll talk about the wisdom we find in our spiritual traditions and reflect on how to apply that wisdom in our own lives.

The Guibord Center is an interfaith organization dedicated to opening hearts and minds. We’re partnering with IslamiCity, a global Muslim e-community, to bring together people with rich spiritual backgrounds and diverse perspectives for this event, the fifth in a series. We hope this virtual collaboration will serve as a model of spiritual and interreligious engagement and mutual enrichment that unites our communities in faith and hope for a better world.

Our storytellers for this event will be:

Christine Stark

Indigenous - Writer, Researcher, Visual Artist

Christine Stark is an award-winning writer, researcher, visual artist, and speaker with Anishinaabe and Cherokee ancestry. Her cultural and spiritual roots infuse her creative, nonfiction, and academic writing, much of which focuses on Native women, trafficking, and sexual abuse. A college writing and humanities teacher for 18 years, Christine received the 2019 International Social Justice Citizen Award from the International Leadership Institute.

Duncan Ryuken Williams, PhD

Soto Zen Buddhist - Author, Priest and Professor, University of Southern California

Duncan Williams, PhD is Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. He also serves as Director of the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture. Previously, he held the Shinjo Ito Distinguished Chair of Japanese Buddhism at the University of California, Berkeley and directed Berkeley’s Center for Japanese Studies. Dr. Williams is an ordained Soto Zen Buddhist priest.

Hana Doueiri

Muslim - Student

Hana Doueiri, a high school senior active in community service and speech and debate, recently placed first in original oratory at an international competition with her speech on religious intolerance and the importance of protecting people of all faiths. Hana finds comfort and healing in Islam’s teaching that God created all humans to interact with and respect one another, which guides her as she connects with people of different faiths.

Rev. Jaimie D. Crumley

Christian - Minister, Historian, Author, PhD Student

Rev. Jaimie Crumley is an ordained Christian minister in the American Baptist tradition and a Black feminist intellectual historian. Currently a PhD student in the Department of Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, she focuses on the lives and theological visions of free African American Christian women in the 19th century. Jaimie is also a 2016 Fellow with the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.