Monthly Events  Free and Open to the Public

Wednesday Noontime Meditation at Christ Church Cathedral, 425 S. 2nd Street 12:10 to 12:50 p.m.
~        1st Wed.: Dick Sisto, zen teacher, leads meditation and offers talks on a variety of topics
~        2nd Wed.: Glenda Hodges-Cook, veteran meditation teacher, leads Tibetan Tonglen Meditation
~        3rd Wed.: Terry Taylor, executive director of IPP, leads Interfaith “Lectio Divina”
~        Last Wed.: Deanna O’Daniel, longtime meditation teacher, leads Creative Visualization

“Film & Food” events are held on the last Saturday and are co-hosted by a different religious or social group each month.  Please join us for dinner and a film screening followed by discussion.  (Free, but donations to offset the cost of dinner are appreciated.)

 January's film event will feature One: The Movie and selections from Paradigm Shifts (a forthcoming film by Elizabeth Windisch and Rhody Streeter) and will be held at St. Matthews Episcopal Church, on January 31, 2008 from 4:30-7:30 p.m.     

Third Thursday Lunch (in cooperation with Fellowship of Reconciliation) at 11:30 a.m. on the third Thursday each month at the Rudyard Kipling with speakers on a variety of peace and justice topics.

 Annual Events
~     Southern Indiana Interfaith Service—January 11, 2009 at 3:00 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, New Albany, Indiana
~     Memorial Day Service for Peace—May 25, 2009 at 11:00 a.m., Christ Church Cathedral
~     Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemorations—August 6^th through 9^th (watch for details)
~     Pilgrimage for Peace and Justice—multi-day event held annually in September or October
~     Nelson County Interfaith Service for Peace—in the Autumn of 2009 (watch for details)

 Recent Highlights

 Interfaith Paths to Peace is working to find ways to make our community, the nation and the world more peaceful, by sparking interfaith dialogue through lectures, interfaith services, films, concerts, book events, pilgrimages, art exhibits and much more.  Among some of our recent successes have been:

·      Co-hosted with the Drepung Gomang Institute the creation at Christ Church Cathedral of a Sand Mandala for Compassion by visiting Tibetan Monks from India.

·      Took part via IPP’s executive director in a major international delegation which traveled to Egypt and Syria, June 19-30, under the sponsorship of the National Peace Foundation and the Islamic Society of North America with major funding provided by the U.S. State Department.

·      Held a highly successful fundraising event on June 4^th at The Rudyard Kipling restaurant built around the
“This I Believe” concept and featuring 20 outstanding local individuals presenting “This I Believe” statements. 

·      Hosted two special events on July 11^th featuring a group of distinguished visitors from the city of Hiroshima, Japan, including the director of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation as well as a survivor of the August 6, 1945, atomic bombing who currently lives in Hiroshima. 

·      Hosted four separate events on July 24^th for a group of 13 visiting Islamic scholars from Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. 

·      Hosted our 24^th Annual Memorial Day Interfaith Service and reception honoring all who have died in armed conflict and war, civilians as well as military. This highly successful event, presented under the leadership of Board member Mitzi Friedlander, drew over 150 persons, including 16 visiting Iranians who were in town as guests of
the World Affairs Council.

·      Hosted the first-ever Interfaith Service in Southern Indiana in partnership with St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. 

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Personal Epiphany Stories!  (If you would like us to post your personal epiphany story, please email the director at director@interfaithpathstopeace.org).

Video of the Christening of Thomas Merton Square

Click here for more information about the event, as well as Thomas Merton's own description of his famous "Shining Like the Sun" epiphany in downtown Louisville.