SPEAKERS AVAILABLE

  Peace and Justice Issues as Faith Issues

 

The VIC Social Concerns Committee, in partnership with Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP) is providing an opportunity for congregations, temples and mosques to connect with speakers and resources related to the faith community's unique role in responding to peace and justice challenges.  ICUJP was created shortly after the 9/11 tragedies.  The founder, Dr. George Regas, was joined by a broad group of interfaith leaders and members of religious communities, and after nearly four years ICUJP continues to be a thriving community of people in pulpits and pews who hold out a vision of a more peaceful, just and humane world, and see working for peace and justice as a moral imperative of their deepest religious beliefs.

 

In partnership with VIC Social Concerns Committee, ICUJP would welcome the opportunity to visit your faith community for presentations and discussion about the prophetic call for peace and justice, and about current local and global peace and justice concerns.  Through our outreach we hope to engage and mobilize members of the faith communites in more active participation in the repair of this broken world.

 

Speakers are available for adult education hours, as guest preachers, Bible study leaders, as members of interfaith panels, and speakers for special programs.  We would be glad to tailor a program to meet the interests and needs of your faith community.

 

The following are possible topics:

 

 - Increasing our understanding of other faith traditions

 - The challenges and opportunities of interfaith work for peace & justice

 - A faith perspective on: civil liberties, human rights, nuclear disarmament, the death penalty, economic justice, the war in Iraq and the environment

 - Hearing the propetic call to work for peace and justice in a variety of sacred texts

 - What exactly is "interfaith", and why does it matter?

 

ICUJP plans quarterly Preaching Peace Luncheons where clergy and religious leaders can discuss the opportunities and challenges involved in preaching about peace & justice issues.  Can we put you on the invitiation list?

 

For more information about ICUJP, its members, and resources, please visit our website at: www.icujp.org.  To request a speaker or panel for your faith community please contact the ICUJP office at: 626-683-9004.  For more information about VIC's Social Concerns Committee call VIC at 818/718-6460 ext. 3007.