July 2010

By Kellie Anderson-Picallo
July 07, 2010
Our Auburn Web site is rich with resources to help you teach and preach and stay current with all that is happening in religious news for the week of July 12th. This week the Jewish calendar turns to Tish’a B’Av which commemorates the destruction of the first and second Temples in ancient Israel. It is also a time of mourning around other tragedies to Jewish people. Here’s how Auburn’s resources can strengthen your message to trouble the waters and heal the world.

By Audrey White
July 06, 2010
We eat our meals family style, passing bowls and plates of food around the table to make sure everyone gets enough. We have several Jewish campers who keep different levels of kosher and Muslim campers who observe halaal.

By Audrey White
July 06, 2010
We spend our whole lives told to “sit down, shut up, and listen.” In our dialogue programming, we try to revamp the way people think about listening and turn it into a proactive and positive way to hear one another’s stories. One activity we do is called intentional listening.

By Lisa Anderson
July 02, 2010
The focus of the 2010 observance of World Population Day will be to highlight the importance of data for development. Reliable data makes a difference, and the key is to collect, analyze and disseminate data in a way that drives good decision making.

By administrator
July 01, 2010
Looking for ways to bring new ideas into your teaching and preaching to trouble the waters and heal the world of your community of faith? Auburn recommends a focus on World Population Day, the July 11 United Nations observance that turns our focus to the collective 6,830,400,000 people on earth.

By Audrey White
June 30, 2010
According to the dictionary application on my MacBook, the word trust means “firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.” It’s hard to build that firm belief. Especially when the individuals trying to experience trust are involved with decades- or centuries-old conflicts that have destroyed connections and broken trust for generations. Especially when we only have two weeks.