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In this issue

Copyright © 2007 Interfaithings Magazine. All rights reserved.

Created by Heather Muller

mullerheather@mac.com

To Interfaith: To enter into

respectful dialogue regarding

beliefs, values, and practices

with adherents of religious world

views other than one’s own.

Essays on the Concept of

Sacred Season

Editor's Preface

p. 3

An Invitation to Cross Lines

by Rev. Tom Duke

p. 4

Pilgrimage of Abraham

by Rev. Paul Jacobs

p. 5

Autumn 2007: A New Beginning?

by Ira L. Gordon

p. 6

Islam (Peace) Versus Terrorism

Editor's Note

p. 8

by Yasir Bilgin

p. 8

Israel/Palestine

and Peace-Making

Editor's Note

p. 10

by Rabbi Amy Eilberg

p. 10

by David Whitten Smith

p. 12

Welcome to the second issue of

Interfaithings, a quarterly electronic

newsletter, seeking to promote interfaith

understanding in the Twin Cities

metropolitan area.*

In this issue, we are pleased to offer

information and reflections regarding the

Sacred Season of Peace-Making. In the

autumn of 2007, the holy days of at least

nine religions occur in

close proximity to one

another. Inspired by that

synchronicity, Sacred

Season is a period during

which faith communities

are being urged to come

together and explore

what their traditions

teach about violence and

peace making. For

detailed information

concerning many of the

Twin Cities Sacred Season events

scheduled for this fall, please go to

www.interfaithings.org

; then click on

"Sacred Season Events" and "Further

Sacred Season Events."

Also in this issue, you will find:

• One Muslim's perspective on

suicide bombing

• Part Two of a conversation,begun in

our previous issue, on Israel,

Palestine, and peace-making

Interfaithings is published by the

Interfaith Bridging Initiative or IBI.

IBI was launched in the summer of 2006

as a partnership between the Mall Area

Religious Council (MARC) and the Twin

Cities chapter of the

Parliament of the

World's Religions

(P.O.W.R.). Thanks to a

generous three year

grant from the Otto

Bremer Foundation, the

Bridging Initiative has

begun to make a

difference. In addition

to publishing this

newsletter, IBI

maintains the website,

www.interfaithings.org

and hosts events.

The next such event is Peace and Violence

in Our Non-Abrahamic Traditions, one of

the events honoring Sacred Season of

Peace–Making. To electronically register

for this event, please go to our website

Please visit

our website

for scheduled

Sacred Season

events

Greetings

SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2007

Vol. 1, Issue 2

Continued on page 2

*Interfaithings was initially intended to be a bimonthly publication. Due to the

exigencies of creating a quality newsletter/journal with an almost entirely

volunteer staff, that time table has been changed. Interfaithings will, in fact,

appear four times a year at three month intervals.