FAITH HOUSE Manhattan

Looking Forward! Job Posting, Women's Circle, a Rabbi and Imam at the Wild Goose Festival, more!

 Today is the last day of June and Faith House is full of news! We welcome a new member of our Board of Directors and have have just published a "flashback" from a founding Board member.  Our amazing Community Development Administrator, Faigy Abdelhak, needs to step down at the end of the summer to focus on her studies and we are accepting applications to fill this position until July 20th. Our Women's Spirituality Circle is having its summer gathering on July 9th and art for "Under Abraham's Tent" is due July 17th.   

 

We are also at the end of an important mid-year fund drive. If you have not yet made a donation to Faith House this year, your gift now will mean more than ever. There are many ways to donate listed below. Thank you to all who have contributed already!    

 

Last week, Bowie, Samir, Faith House Advisory Board member Paul Knitter, our friends Rabbi Or Rose and Imam Abdullah Antepli, and other members of the Faith House Community were part of the first Wild Goose Festival. After years of dreams and hard work, the Wild Goose Festival is now on the map of the American religious landscape! Four days of exhilarating experiences, contemplative practices, rigorous thinking, inspiring art, new friendships, and unspeakable fun for everyone have left all of us with a desire for more. Faith House Manhattan successfully curated the interfaith track of the festival, once again extending its impact beyond NYC.    

 

Many new things are brewing and we are thankful for an auspicious start of this summer.  We have grown tremendously in the past year and give thanks for the part Faigy has played - and will continue to play in this growth through this summer.  Please spread the word about our job posting to your own communities and networks!  

 

The hunger for understanding how to practice one's own faith in a world of many religious paths is immense. We saw this at Wild Goose, we experience this in our Manhattan community, and hear it everywhere. Help us meet the needs of this city and world.   

 

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As our way of saying "Thank You!" we will be giving a digital copy of our compilation, "Faith and Food: The Cookbook," to all donors and to all who give over $300, we will send a copy of 100 Graces: Mealtime Blessings signed by author Marcia Kelly.

 

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Cold Commute, Warm Event

By Ben Schnell

I heard about Faith House from the book Its Really All About God by Samir Selmanovic. I had to check it out. There was only two problems. The first was that its a bit of a commute from Portland Maine, where I live, to New York City, just for one evening. The second problem is that I had just sold my car and was getting around on a small Honda Scooter.

But then it hit me, driving on a scooter that only goes 35 miles an hour from Portland Maine to New York city, just for one event that would only last for a couple hours... what an adventure! So I put on long johns, 2 pairs of pants, 3 coats, and set off. I could only go half way in one day, so I couchsurfed in Amherst Massachusetts on the way down, and made it to New York on the second day.

The ride was very cold but the event was very warm. It was a holiday craft event. I met Samir, and many others from different faith backgrounds. Several people shared about the different kinds of crafts their families would do together around the holidays. I learned about Hanukkah, Islamic prayer beads, and Eastern Orthodox Icons. It was informative, but more than that, it was warm and social.

With so much religiously motivated violence in the world today, people getting together in a living room setting to celebrate each other's faith, now thats worth seeing, even if it means a long, chilly commute!