From mwhite3 at richmond.edu Wed Mar 5 14:48:27 2008 From: mwhite3 at richmond.edu (White, Matthew) Date: Wed Mar 5 14:49:28 2008 Subject: [Ircjinfo] Interreligious Council planning session March 26 Message-ID: <7CDFFACE08DA5F4394E904111D84A173D8DAEE@gemini.richmond.edu> Hi everyone, I am writing to send an early invitation for all of you to take part in a planning session for an Interreligious Council here at the University of Richmond, sponsored by the Office of the Chaplaincy. We will be holding the planning meeting in the Interfaith Room on the first floor of Wilton Center, from 2:30-4:00p.m. on Wednesday, March 26. We would like to have an Interreligious and Religious Diversity Council in place for the university in the next academic year, so we really need your help in talking about its structure and organization. Ideally we would like this to be a council composed of students as well as faculty/staff, and potentially local community partners as well, which would meet regularly during the academic year to discuss issues relating to religious diversity and interreligious dialogue on campus, to advise the Chaplaincy's IRCJ Office on programming and activities, and perhaps take on other roles as well. This planning session will be a time for open brainstorming and big ideas, as well as talking about practical questions like how membership on the council might be structured and reasonable expectations about how often it might meet during the academic year. We would love for all of you to take part. Even if you don't think you would be interested in serving on the council itself - and even if you are a senior who won't be here next year - if you care about building a community that values religious diversity and interfaith dialogue, we really need your help and insight. I will send out some more announcements about the planning session as we get closer to March 26, but I wanted to contact you early so you can put the date on your calendars. If you have any questions about the planning meeting or about the idea of an Interreligious Council in general, please don't hesitate to contact me at mwhite3@richmond.edu or x8997. All the best, Matthew ------------------------------ Matthew Jennings White Interreligious Community and Justice Coordinator Office of the Chaplaincy Wilton Center University of Richmond (804)289-8997 mwhite3@richmond.edu "An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences." -Theodor Adorno -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.richmond.edu/pipermail/ircjinfo/attachments/20080305/896a10c5/attachment.html