 Interfaith Partner's of South Carolina has produced a beautiful 18 Month Interfaith Calendar featuring information on each of 12 South Carolina religious groups and its important holidays, this calendar will be a great resource for: Teachers • Sunday Schools • Government Agencies • Local Businesses • Community Leaders • Law Enforcement • Nonprofits • Event Planners • and anyone who would like to learn more about the many faith groups in South Carolina!
Created as both a fundraising project as well as an education tool this calendar has both great production values, as it was designed and layed out by a professional graphics designer, and is chock full of information and dates sacred to many faiths. It has been distributed to all 82 of SC's school districts so that our public schools can be mindful of all the holidays of importance to a wide number of religions. Dr. Barbara Fields, Executive Director of the AGNT (Association for Global New Thought) and who served as Program Director for the first modern Parliament of World Religions in 1993, had this to say about our calendar: "The entire project is so well executed; I have seen quite a few of these in my career in interreligious dialogue and this is one of the nicest. You should feel proud and so do, I hope, your colleagues on this council. It is clear that healing of religious-based wounds must begin with sharing and mutual understanding and the calendar achieves this in a wonderful way." Click on the image to visit IPSC's page in order to purchase this calendar.
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 A week ago today I traveled up to Columbia with Rabbi TZiPi Radonsky for IPSC’s (Interfaith Partners of South Carolina) annual meeting. On the way up we learned that Dr. Will Moreau Goins our Chair, had died of a massive heart attack the previous Friday. Our meeting became an impromptu memorial and celebration of life, he was widely loved. Tzipi's keynote speech was still given and it could not have been more perfect.
The following Tuesday Christina and I traveled up to Columbia again for the final screening in this year's, the 20th annual, Native American Film festival. Will founded and directed this legacy he has left us, and today it remains the only Native American Film Festival in the South-East. Will had recommended in an email that if I could invest just one five hour drive to the festival that we must come on Tuesday. His recommendation meant that we would be at the screening of ‘Rumble: Indians that Rocked the World’ where we would witness a powerful tribute to Dr. Will. On Main Street a candlelight vigil formed around the entrance of the Nickelodeon Theater and it’s marquee said “Rest In Power Dr. Will Goins”. I only knew Will through our work together in IPSC and during the evening was shown the multifaceted gem that he was in the world of Arts and Culture by some who knew and loved him best in these communities. Truly the heart of this tribute was the hauntingly engaged performance of Charly Lowry, a Lumbee Singer/Song writer from North Carolina. “I didn’t have a chance to say goodbye, so I’ll say hello in the afterlife” came from ‘Hometown Hero’, the first song she sang. The Cherokee Memorial video at the end is from Michael Rose, a friend of Will’s and is a song given to him by spirit a few years before. My video homage to this tribute runs forty minutes. As the footage was shot handheld with my stills camera in less than optimum conditions, I’ve had to try to fashion a silk purse from a pig’s ear and you know how well that works. Still as the content is precious and unrepeatable it seemed worth the effort. Click on the image to view the video. |
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