Last week I met with the speakers for the upcoming Multi-faith
Event: How Good Must I Be? The Consequences of My
Choices. The purpose of our meeting was to determine the questions for the
event. When I meet with the speakers before an event I start the meeting by discussing Martin Marty’s observation, “People these days who
are civil often lack strong convictions, and people with strong religious
convictions often are not very civil. What we need is convicted civility.” My
desire at the Multi-faith Events is that the speakers will honestly and with
conviction share their beliefs, but with that conviction and honesty is a
tone of civility.
As we were discussing the question,
How Good Must I Be? we ourselves practiced convicted civility. It
immediately became clear that how a question was asked could possibly make presuppositions that would be incorrect for the faiths represented at the event.
As a group we crafted each question in a manner which would allow the speakers
to honestly portray the beliefs of their faith.
As a group the desire was to move from the theological to a personal understanding
of the concept.We discussed making
amends, forgiveness, repentance and guilt. Those topics will be addressed at the event by the speakers after the formal presentations. It was a wonderful meeting and it
truly represented multi-faith dialogue.
The questions for the event:
According to your faith what constitutes wrong doing?
According to your faith what are the consequences of our choices?
According to your faith how good must I be? How should I live my life?
The Multi-faith Event: How Good Must I Be? The Consequences of My
Choices is Wednesday, April 11th at 7 p.m. at Canterbury School,
5601 Covington Road, Fort Wayne, IN.
The speakers
for the event are:
William Smits, MD, The Asthma and Allergy Center, Baha'i
Kent Eilers, PhD. Assistant Professor of Theology, Huntington University, Evangelical Christian
Preeti Dembla MD, Internal Medicin, Hindu
Mohammed Saad Ghazali, MD, Pediatric Cardiology Associates, P.C, Muslim
Rabbi Javier E. Cattapan, Congregation Achduth Vesholom, Jewish
Kent Eilers, PhD. Assistant Professor of Theology, Huntington University, Evangelical Christian
Preeti Dembla MD, Internal Medicin, Hindu
Mohammed Saad Ghazali, MD, Pediatric Cardiology Associates, P.C, Muslim
Rabbi Javier E. Cattapan, Congregation Achduth Vesholom, Jewish
Hopefully you can attend.
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