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SUMMARY:Prisms of Faith: Moving Beyond Tolerance to Deep Engagement
DESCRIPTION:Prisms of Faith: Moving Beyond Tolerance to Deep Engagement\
 n\nOn Sunday\, March 16\, 2025\, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.\, St. John’s E
 piscopal Church will mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the 
 Nazis’ concentration camps with a discussion of interfaith relations. 
 Our keynote speaker\, The Rev. Masud Ibn Syedullah\, TSSF\, of Hyde Park
 \, New York\, will explore ways in which persons of all faiths can relat
 e to others without sacrificing their own most fundamental beliefs. Cler
 gy from other faith traditions will respond to Father Syedullah\, after 
 which there will be comments and questions from those in attendance. Phi
 llip and Noreen  Silver will introduce the program with music written by
  composers whose lives were devastated by the Holocaust. Refreshments an
 d further conversation will follow the program.\n\nBiography:\nThe Rev. 
 Masud Ibn Syedullah\, TSSF\, an Episcopal priest of the Diocese of New Y
 ork\, is Founder and Director of Roots &amp\; Branches: Programs for Spi
 ritual Growth. Through it\, he uses his gifts as educator\, spiritual di
 rector\, and musician to create and lead retreats\, conferences\, worksh
 ops\, and pilgrimages\, nationally and internationally.  See website: ww
 w.roots-branches.org.    He is a professed member of the Third Order\, S
 ociety of Saint Francis (TSSF) – a religious community within the Epis
 copal Church and Anglican Communion. Franciscan spirituality\, with its 
 central theme of following Jesus by serving God through responding to hu
 man need and valuing human dignity\, greatly informs Masud’s ministry 
 of peacemaking\, reconciliation\, and social justice. An African America
 n\, Masud was raised in an interfaith home – father\, an Ahmadiyya Mus
 lim\; mother\, a Pentecostal Christian. He has had a lifetime of cross-c
 ultural and bridgebuilding experience\, engaging collaborative work with
  Muslims\, Jews\, Native Americans\, Buddhists\, and representatives of 
 other faith traditions. In response to the increased social unrest of th
 e past few years\, religious leaders within the United States and beyond
  call upon Masud to create and present programs to guide participants in
  ways their faith and engagement of the spiritual resources of scripture
 \, prayer\, meditation\, and community can equip them to be faithful age
 nts of peace and peacemaking in today’s world. Masud is also currently
  the Interim Canon for Ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of New York\, r
 esponsible for the process of discernment and formation of persons prepa
 ring for ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church. He and his wife live
  in Hyde Park\, New York.
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LOCATION:St. John's Episcopal Church
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