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NAINConnect 2008 Workshops |
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Theme: Gifts We Bring
PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLDS RELIGIONS & NAIN – THE OPPORTUNITY
WORKSHOP SUMMARY
This workshop brings you into the planning for the December 2-9, 2009, Parliament of the World’s Religions to be held in Melbourne, Australia. Bill Lesher and Helen Spector have been active with the Parliament since the historic 1993 Parliament.
The theme of the 2009 Parliament, Make a World of Difference: Hearing each other, Healing the earth, underscores the opportunity for religious and spiritual communities and all people of good will to act on environmental concerns and take responsibility for cultivating awareness of our global interconnectedness. The context of this Parliament provides a lens through which the world can focus on the struggles and spiritualities of indigenous peoples around the globe, particularly highlighting the Aboriginal communities of Australia.
A new website -- http://www.parliamentofreligions.org -- includes all the information and registrtion possibilities for Melbourne.
PRESENTERS
Bill Lesher and Helen Spector
Bill Lesher chairs the Board of Trustees of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions. He has been associated with the CPWR since the centennial Parliament in 1993 when he was serving as the President of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. He has been involved with religious and interreligious activity in Europe, Africa and Asia and more recently in Australia.
Helen Spector has been active with the Parliament since the planning for its centennial gathering in Chicago in 1993, serving as a Trustee of the Council since 1990, including Vice Chair of the Board from 1999 through 2007. She worked on the design of the Assembly of Religious and Spiritual Leaders for all 3 modern Parliament events and co-chaired the site selection process which selected Barcelona Spain and Melbourne Australia as the sites for the fourth and fifth Parliaments.
Workshop is interactive - please post a comment and note your interest
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OPENING STATEMENT
With this workshop you will begin to be a part of the historic fifth Parliament of the World's Religions to be held December 3-9, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. After briefly highlighting the history of the Parliament movement from 1893 to the present, we will engage the expertise of NAIN interreligious leaders in building the program for the Melbourne Parliament.
Specifically, we will discuss the over-all theme (yet to be announced), discuss the program components that are emerging and solicit ideas from workshop attendees. We will signal ways that NAIN members can be involved by: submitting program proposals, planning and conducting pre-Parliament events, recruiting a delegation, following the development of the Parliament at http://www.parliamentofreligions.org and above all, by accepting our invitation to engage the global interreligious movement at the Parliament in Melbourne.
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| 03/06/08 |
Paul Chaffee |
What I find exciting about the Parliaments |
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| The Parliaments in Chicago, Cape Town, Barcelona and now in Melbourne are an unparalleled opportunity for interfaith activists at the local level to 'be in the room' for a week with thousands of other grassroots interfaith groups from the world over.
What really interests me will be finding out what the theme for 2009 is, so we can start to identify local groups who will most reverberate with the subject at hand. Any notion, Bill and Helen, of when we will know what the theme is?
Incidentally, you can learn more about the upcoming Parliament at www.wcrp.org.
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| 07/03/08 |
Helen Spector |
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| Hello, Paul
We have both the theme AND a new website: The new website--www.parliamentofreligions.org --includes all the information and registrtion possibilities for Melbourne.
The theme of the 2009 Parliament, Make a World of Difference: Hearing each other, Healing the earth, underscores the opportunity for religious and spiritual communities and all people of good will to act on environmental concerns and take responsibility for cultivating awareness of our global interconnectedness. The context of this Parliament provides a lens through which the world can focus on the struggles and spiritualities of indigenous peoples around the globe, particularly highlighting the Aboriginal communities of Australia.
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