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Future of Faith

By Kellie Anderson-Picallo
January 10, 2012

Future of Faith: A 3-Part Series for Church Communities
Auburn Media in partnership with Brick Presbyterian Church, First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York and Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church at 7pm.

Church attendance and membership is falling…fast. More and more people are claiming to be “spiritual” but not “religious.” Religion and the state have never been more at odds. The most pressing question remains: What is the future of faith? Join Auburn Media in partnership with Brick Presbyterian Church, First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York and Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church for a film and speaker series featuring author and filmmaker Irshad Manji; media contributor and technology expert Ari Wallach; and Sundance Film Festival-nominated filmmaker and Auburn Media Senior Director Macky Alston. Each session will feature a film excerpt, lecture and discussion.

• FEBRUARY 7 – Film and Conversation: Irshad Manji, 7:00pm
(Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church)
Author, filmmaker and speaker Irshad Manji speaks about her Muslim faith and efforts throughout the world to promote Muslim reform and moral courage. Irshad will share a selected clip from her PBS film Faith Without Fear and will discuss her new book Allah, Liberty and Love.

• MARCH 13 – Conversation: Ari Wallach, 7:00pm
(Brick Presbyterian Church)
Media contributor Ari Wallach is an organizer at the intersection of business, politics and technology and speaks about upcoming trends in identifying as religious versus spiritual. Wallach was the co-founder of The Great Schlep with Sarah Silverman, organizing young adult Jews to pursuade their grandparents vote for Barrack Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign.

• APRIL 17 – Film and Conversation: “Love Free or Die”, 7:00pm
(First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York)
Filmmaker Macky Alston will premiere a selected clip from his upcoming Sundance Film Festival nominated film that will premiere on PBS in fall 2012. “Love Free or Die” is about a man whose two defining passions are in direct conflict: his love for God and his partner Mark. The film follows Bishop Gene Robinson’s personal story as American churches debate whether or not lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are equal to heterosexuals in the eyes of God.

Join us for Future of Faith! For more information contact Rev. Kellie Anderson-Picallo at Auburn Media.

Tags: Auburn, Auburn Media, Auburn Seminary, Brick Presbyterian Church, First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York and Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church

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Hey... shooting for first here.... Think I have a shot, since that larley took a while to read.:)I am not going to correct you, or tell you you're wrong, or scold you, or even tell you that I am concerned for you or for your soul.You don't want that, and I don't want to do that.Actually, I was kinda glad to read this because a few of your other comments (can't pinpoint them for you) had me wondering in the past, but I was positive I'd met you and Micah first at a church thing. I have a horrible memory though.I am glad to have a better understanding of where you are, and why you're there because of where you've been. Not because I want to use these as tools to proselytise (Did I spell that right? It's a good one) or convert you back to Christianity.Rather, because it's just good to have understanding at times.The only thing I will say to be defensive is this - Please don't characterize all Christians (or all religious people even) into the 'nutty' category.Any time you have a large group of people, of any sort, there will be actions that are completely moronic within. Actually, I would go a bit further and say that you could probably take almost any large group that's based on a particular belief (religious or not) and you will find moronic thoughts and actions in that group that actually relate to a belief that matches the rest of that group's... yet the group isn't being moronic... just some morons that belong to the group.I realize you're just venting, and everyone needs to do that at times... but you sound larley bitter about it. I hope you can just remember not to be bitter at everyone related to the group, and preferably just towards those particular parts that have (rightfully) caused you to be bitter.Some Christians (I would even argue a good number) are larley good people. Probably true of most religions.Hope that didn't come across as too overbearing. If it did, feel free to contact me personally rather than posting the comment.

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Oh, ATW! How completely blind you are! I aededssrd nothing hateful,' as you put it, toward you at all. I expressed disgust over an evil book full of lies and hate that commands its followers to kill all non-followers in ways such as beheading and crucifixion. I've read the book. Have you? I know what it promises for me if I sue for peace' with these enemies of my soul and body female mutilation and subjugation, slavery and oppression for all who will not convert, torture and death for those who will not submit utterly. I know what government by Islam promises for my country, or any country that will not fight for its sovereignty and resist the insidious creep of Islam into its culture: look at any and every Islam-ruled nation in the world today, dictatorships and theocracies all. Look at the nations where Islam has made serious inroads: all subject to endless terrorism and acts of violence. Note that word again ALL. Truth is truth, and reality is what it is. Where there is Islam, there is noPeace.Lynda

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