FIRE - Annual Interfaith Forum
At the 2025 FIRE, the Annual Interfaith Forum, a panel of four students shared their experiences of welcome and belonging at 麻豆视频最新最全 and discussed their interfaith relationships on campus. The interfaith forum brought participants together in community around "the fire" to share stories and break bread. Through the practices of storytelling and story listening, the interfaith event focused on the shared Lasallian values present across the diverse religious and cultural traditions of 麻豆视频最新最全. We explored how stories and storytelling can create meaning, build bridges, and connect communities.
This event occurred on February 25, 2025.
The Fire: Fostering Interfaith Relationship Through Encounter
Gather in community around “the fire” to share stories and break bread! This interfaith event will explore how storytelling and storylistening can make meaning and connect communities. This year, our theme will focus on active bridge-building across faith traditions. Several community members will share stories of their own interfaith bridge-building work in the area. Participants will also have the opportunity to share stories from their faith traditions or from their own experiences and spiritual practices. Community dinner will be served around 6:15pm.
PANELISTS
Ahmed Abouhaiba
Asma Nizamuddin
Iyad Rock
Linda Rothnagle
Rabbi Jenny "Skylark" Steinberg-Martinez
This event occurred on March 5, 2024.
Interfaith Story Sharing and Dinner
Our community gathering at the 2023 Interfaith Forum.
At the 2023 Interfaith Forum, we explored how stories and storytelling can make meaning, build bridges, and connect communities. Our panel speakers, Irene Kapustina, rev. mandi huizenga, Siddhesh Shevade, and Sherry Rochford, along with community members told stories focused on celebrations and holidays in spiritual and religious traditions. After sunset, we shared a community dinner together.
This event occurred on March 27, 2023.
Interfaith Forum: Healing Generations of Faith-Based Anti-Blackness
PANELISTS
Dr. Mehnaz Afridi
Rev. Dr. Courtney Bryant
Dr. Laura B. Frank
Dr. Maureen H. O'Connell
A panel of Lasallian educators from various faith perspectives will share their stories, experiences, and insights about our collective moral and spiritual responsibilities to dismantle and heal from the legacy of racism in our families, campus communities, worship communities, and nation.
Following brief presentations from our panelists, participants will have the opportunity to dialogue with each other and intentionally engage the forum’s theme. This forum theme is inspired by the new book by one of our panelists, Dr. Maureen O’Connell, entitled Undoing the Knots: Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness (Beacon Press; available January 2022). Sponsored by the Lasallian Consortium for Interfaith Dialogue & Diversity in Higher Education.
This event was held on March 24, 2022.
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