[Peace] Wednesday, March 29th - Prof. Robert McKim

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

>
>
> SOCIAL JUSTICE FORUM
> Channing-Murray Foundation
>  1209 W. Oregon, U.
>
>  Wednesday, March 29th - 7 p.m.
>  Our March forum will feature Prof. Robert McKim of  the U of I 
> Religious
>  Studies Faculty.
>
> The Religions: Can they all get along? - Prof. Robert McKim, head of
>  Religous Studies Program at UIUC. A discussion of ways of thinking 
> about
>  other religions that every religion can profitably engage in and that
>  would reduce conflict and promote peace-making.
>
>  Topics to be mentioned: ways of being inclusive towards others and
>  their religious views, where this includes being open to the 
> possibility
>  that we might learn something significant from them. Seeing all of 
> human
>  religious experience as a rich resource in which it is good to have a
>  healthy curiosity, as distinct from seeing others and their views as
>  threatening.  And more of the same.  I may not have much explicit
>  reflection about the direct payoff for peacemaking of such 
> constructive
>  attitudes, but there are not too many dots to connect.
>  
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