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Friday, July 29, 2011

FAIRFAX TV Channel 30 - Rumi Forum broadcasting on third television station

Rumi Forum will start broadcasting on a third television station during August 2011. That station is Fairfax TV - channel 30. The time slots during which it will be broadcast are as follows:

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

VIDEO - Beyond Sacrifice, Rethinking Religion and Violence in America with John Pahl


In his famous Riverside Church Speech of April 1967, "Beyond Vietnam," the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. identified America as the "greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." How has this changed, or not, since 1967? And how has "religion" factored into the problems of episodic and systemic violence in America? Drawing on his book Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence (NYU, 2010), Professor Jon Pahl suggests some necessary rethinking of the categories of "religion" and "violence" in American history, with an aim to move the nation in its domestic and foreign policies beyond "sacrifice." Such a move may in fact already be underway, toward what Pahl calls, in the working title of his next book, A Coming Religious Peace.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

MOST READ - see what others are reading on our official web site and blog


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Friday, July 8, 2011

Community Engagement Night-Rumi Forum & ATFA

Max Finberg, Director, Center for Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

Acacia Salatti, Deupty Director, Center for Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

VIDEO - Brian Katulis: Changing the Mindset on US Policy in the Middle East

Below you will find two Rumi Forum videos, one from a recent event, and another from the archives. Enjoy !

1. Changing the Mindset on US Policy in the Middle East  - Brian Katulis, Center for American Progress
2.Who Speaks for Islam? - John Esposito  , Georgetown University