Friends:
There will be no peace on earth until there is peace among people of all faiths. - Hans Kung

It was wonderful to have such a full house for Homecoming.  As Pr. Anita said Sunday, “Y’all come back now.  There’s church next Sunday too!” Several people have requested that the Council interpret Biblical texts like Jonah [...]

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Holy Convergence:
 An Interfaith Festival for Families
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
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2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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A Celebration of:
Ramadhan (Islam)
The Feast of St. Francis (Christian)
High Holy Days (Jewish)
Divali and Gandhi’s Birthday (Hindu)
Indigenous People’s Day
In Love with Life Season (Buddhist and Bahai’s)
World Communion Sunday (Protestant Christian
Sikh Guru Gadhee

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presented by
Interfaith – San Ramon Valley (I-SRV)
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Peace Lutheran Church
3201 Camino Tassajara Road
Danville, [...]

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Friends:
C’mon Home - though you’ve abandoned your spiritual vows and promised 10,000 times - C’mon Home.  We turn our backs on God day by day but not for one second has God ever turned away from us.  C’mon Home! - Rumi
Homecoming Weekend kicks off with our Show or No Spaghetti Feast on Saturday at 5:00 [...]

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Our Director of Music Ministry, Sue Field, would like to invite anyone interested to consider attending:
ANATOMY OF WHOLENESS FOR SINGERS
With Babette Lightner
Join us for a practical and inspiring afternoon designed to:

Refresh and deepen your teaching and your singing
Demonstrate how your system coordinates singing naturally, free of manipulations and body adjustments
Give you more tools to invite [...]

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Friends:
Community is not some sentimental ideal place or time where everybody lives together, loves each other, and always gets along.  That’s never going to happen.  Community doesn’t require total emotional harmony.  Rather it offers us the context where we try to love one another and receive the love and care of others.  - Henri Nouwen
Thanks [...]

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Dear Parents, Grandparents, Uncles, Aunts, and loving Big People,
After more than twenty years of working with children, I’ve come to realize that it’s far easier for a group of adults to coordinate their schedules for a get-together than it is for a group of kids together for a party! Never is this more true than [...]

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Friends:
If more of us could serve as center of love and oases of peace, we would turn around a great deal of conflict, hatred, jealousies and violence.  This is the way we take on suffering and transform it.  Let us watch our words:  it is too easy to discourage, criticize, complain and rebuke.  Let us [...]

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