For Fall 2010: Three Journeys of Faith

For this fall season, we have selected three items about faith journeys:

•a best-selling author travels between two very different religious communities in America ,and renews his lost faith
•a Canadian discovers the transcendence of pilgrimage, by walking 500 miles
•a Palestinian doctor who lost three of his daughters in the Gaza war refuses to hate

To access any link, simply put your mouse over it, click, and you will see or hear the item. ALSO – there’s more where this came from! For previous postings, just keep scrolling down for more interviews, articles and videos.

MITCH ALBOM TALKS ABOUT HIS NEWEST BEST-SELLER, HAVE A LITTLE FAITH

The author ‘s first non-fiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie is about “seeing faith on a small level”, according to Albom. It is about a suburban rabbi in his 80’s, and an inner city minister serving the poor and homeless. As someone who had left the faith of his early lie behind, Albom says his time with these two men “knocked cynicism out of me”.

Here is Mitch Albom’s interview with CBS’ Katie Couric from 2009. (The first 25 minutes are about the book.)

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5604542n

In our library:

Have a Little Faith is found in our Kingsway-Lambton church library. Call number 296.7

On our website:

See the Book Review, from September, posted on the Library web page. Click on Book Review.

WALKING 500 MILES – TO GO TO CHURCH

Arthur Paul Boers is an Ontario Mennonite Pastor, who made a 500 mile pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago in Europe. In this interview on CBC Radio’s Tapestry, he talks about his revelations and observations about walking and pilgrimages as religious practice. (Warning – it will make you want to do it!) Boers also wrote a book about it, called The Way Is Made by Walking: A Pilgrimage Along the Camino de Santiago.

http://www.cbc.ca/tapestry/2010/06/and-would-i-walk-500-miles---to-go-to-church-1.html

CARRYING A MESSAGE FOR PEACE

Three of Izzeldin Abuelaish’s daughters, and a niece, were killed when Israeli tank shells hit his house in Gaza in January 2009 . But Dr. Abuelaish says he is “ a believer, with deep faith as a Muslim”, and that he refuses to hate, despite his terrible loss.

Currently living in Toronto with his surviving daughters, Dr. Abuelaish Is promoting a message of understanding and peace. This CBC TV interview
followed a speech he gave at a Toronto synagogue.

http://www.cbc.ca/connect/2009/11/gaza-mds-synagogue-speech.html

CBC Radio’s The Current also interviewed Dr. Abuelaish in May 2010, and played a documentary about him, called Do No Harm. You can find those items at this link:

http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2010/05/may-05-2010.html

In our library

Books about forgiveness, and interfaith understanding

Left to Tell : Discovering God amidst the Rwandan holocaust by Ilibagiza, Immaculée - a miraculous story of how one woman survived the Rwandan genocide , and discovered the power of prayer and forgiveness.

Call Number: 282.09 Ili

Faith Club ;A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding Idliby, Ranya, Oliver, Suzanne, Warner, Priscilla
Three mothers, one Muslim, one Christian and one Jew, gather after Sept. 11th
to try and develop understanding.

Call Number 201.5 Idl