Posts tagged Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Relations
AFN Invites You to Dialogue, Advocacy, and Sacred Encounters
AFN Invites You to Dialogue, Advocacy, and Sacred Encounters

Arizona Faith Network’s latest newsletter highlights upcoming opportunities for interfaith learning, dialogue, and advocacy across Arizona—including a four-week Interfaith Book Group beginning March 11, Interfaith Day at the Capitol on March 25, sacred site visits, and ongoing meditation gatherings.

These events invite people of faith to deepen relationships across traditions and engage in public witness for the common good. Read the full AFN newsletter for complete details and registration links.

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What’s Happening at Arizona Faith Network: March Events, Trainings, and Interfaith Opportunities
What’s Happening at Arizona Faith Network: March Events, Trainings, and Interfaith Opportunities

The latest Arizona Faith Network newsletter highlights upcoming opportunities for interfaith dialogue, advocacy, and community engagement across Arizona. Events include legislative training, an interfaith book study, Interfaith Day at the Capitol, sacred site visits, and other gatherings that bring people of faith together for learning and action.

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Strengthening Faithful Witness: Upcoming AFN Events Across Arizona
Strengthening Faithful Witness: Upcoming AFN Events Across Arizona

The latest Arizona Faith Network newsletter includes upcoming opportunities for digital security training, interfaith dialogue, public witness at the Capitol, and community events across Arizona. Highlights include a March 2 Digital Security Workshop, March 4–6 Training of Trainers in Phoenix, Interfaith Day at the Capitol on March 25, and multiple hybrid and in-person gatherings.

Read the full newsletter for registration links and details: arizonafaithnetwork.org/newsletter.

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Grand Canyon Synod, NewsBrian FlatgardEcumenical and Inter-Religious Relations, Arizona Faith NetworkComment
From Ramadan to Lent: Building Resilient Communities Across Arizona with AFN
From Ramadan to Lent: Building Resilient Communities Across Arizona with AFN

Arizona Faith Network is offering multiple opportunities for faithful public engagement this season, including Prophetic Witness Campaign trainings (Phoenix Feb. 19), a Digital Security Workshop (March 2), Sacred Space visits, and an interfaith book study. AFN also issued an Action Alert regarding harmful legislation moving through the Arizona Legislature.

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Arizona Faith Network: Prophetic Witness, Creation Care & Interfaith Engagement
Arizona Faith Network: Prophetic Witness, Creation Care & Interfaith Engagement

Arizona Faith Network invites clergy and lay leaders to engage in the Prophetic Witness Campaign (Phoenix training Feb. 19), Environmental Day at the Capitol (Feb. 11), and a wide range of interfaith and advocacy events throughout February and March. From immigration justice to climate action to spiritual grounding, AFN offers meaningful ways to live out our faith in the public square. Read the full AFN newsletter for RSVP links and details.

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From Prophetic Witness to People Power: What’s New from Arizona Faith Network
From Prophetic Witness to People Power: What’s New from Arizona Faith Network

Arizona Faith Network’s weekly newsletter highlights upcoming advocacy meetings, faith-based trainings, and community events focused on immigration justice, voting rights, creation care, and interfaith collaboration. From the Prophetic Witness Campaign and Environmental Day at the Capitol to meditation, book groups, and leadership trainings, AFN continues to invite people of faith into meaningful, coordinated action across Arizona.

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Standing for Human Dignity: This Week’s Arizona Faith Network Updates and Actions
Standing for Human Dignity: This Week’s Arizona Faith Network Updates and Actions

Arizona Faith Network’s latest newsletter highlights powerful interfaith vigils for immigrant dignity, upcoming nonviolent prophetic witness training (January 28), and new ways to engage through the ReHumanization Project. It also includes advocacy opportunities like Environmental Day at the Capitol, ongoing spiritual formation, interfaith learning events, and urgent statewide needs such as food bank volunteers.

Read the full newsletter and subscribe at arizonafaithnetwork.org/newsletter to stay connected to faith-rooted action across Arizona.

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Prayer, Justice, and Community: What’s Coming Up from Arizona Faith Network
Prayer, Justice, and Community: What’s Coming Up from Arizona Faith Network

Arizona Faith Network’s latest newsletter highlights opportunities for prayer, advocacy, and interfaith connection across Arizona—from the Statewide Week of Prayer for Christian Unity on January 22 in Phoenix, to Environmental Day at the Capitol on February 11, along with ongoing meditation, youth interfaith events, justice vigils, and spiritual retreats.

Get dates, locations, RSVP links, and the full calendar by reading the complete AFN newsletter at arizonafaithnetwork.org/newsletter.

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This Week with Arizona Faith Network: Meditation, Democracy, Unity, and MLK Events Across Arizona
This Week with Arizona Faith Network: Meditation, Democracy, Unity, and MLK Events Across Arizona

The latest Arizona Faith Network newsletter is now available, featuring upcoming opportunities for prayer, learning, and public engagement across Arizona. Highlights include weekly Monday Meditation, online conversations on democracy and voting rights, an interfaith exploration of faith and science from an Islamic perspective, the statewide Week of Prayer for Christian Unity service in Phoenix, and links to MLK Day events across the state.

The newsletter also includes partner events, interfaith observances, and ways to stay connected with AFN’s ongoing work. We encourage congregational leaders and lay members throughout the Grand Canyon Synod to read the newsletter in full, share it with others, and subscribe for weekly updates.

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Praying Together for Christian Unity: Join the 2026 Statewide Service
Praying Together for Christian Unity: Join the 2026 Statewide Service

Christians from across Arizona are invited to gather for the 2026 Statewide Week of Prayer for Christian Unity on Thursday, January 22, at 6:30 PM at Historic Tanner Chapel AME Church in Phoenix. Hosted by The Rev’d Dr. Benjamin N. Thomas, Sr. and the Tanner Chapel congregation, this ecumenical service is part of a global observance prayed by churches worldwide.

Using worship materials prepared by the Armenian Apostolic Church, the service offers a powerful opportunity to pray for Christian unity, deepen relationships across traditions, and witness together to Christ’s reconciling love. All are welcome.

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Deacons Now Included in ELCA–Episcopal Clergy Exchange
Deacons Now Included in ELCA–Episcopal Clergy Exchange

Marking 25 years of full communion, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and The Episcopal Church have updated clergy exchange guidelines to include deacons. The revised document affirms mutual recognition of the diaconate and opens new possibilities for shared ministry and mission.

The guidelines clarify that exchange applies to nontransitional Episcopal deacons and celebrates growing collaboration for evangelism, service, and witness. Read more about the updated guidelines.

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ELCA, Leader ResourcesBrian FlatgardEcumenical and Inter-Religious Relations, The Episcopal ChurchComment
Praying Together for Christian Unity: Join the 2026 Statewide Service
Praying Together for Christian Unity: Join the 2026 Statewide Service

Christians from across Arizona are invited to gather for the 2026 Statewide Week of Prayer for Christian Unity on Thursday, January 22, at 6:30 PM at Historic Tanner Chapel AME Church in Phoenix. Hosted by The Rev’d Dr. Benjamin N. Thomas, Sr. and the Tanner Chapel congregation, this ecumenical service is part of a global observance prayed by churches worldwide.

Using worship materials prepared by the Armenian Apostolic Church, the service offers a powerful opportunity to pray for Christian unity, deepen relationships across traditions, and witness together to Christ’s reconciling love. All are welcome.

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Interfaith Action and Reflection: What’s New from Arizona Faith Network
Interfaith Action and Reflection: What’s New from Arizona Faith Network

The latest Arizona Faith Network newsletter features interfaith gatherings, educational events, meditations, partner actions, and seasonal opportunities for service across Arizona. From peace-focused worship to justice-centered advocacy, there are many ways to engage. Explore the full newsletter and stay connected.

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From Lament to Action: Bishop Curry on Gun Violence and Advent Hope
From Lament to Action: Bishop Curry on Gun Violence and Advent Hope

Following a deadly shooting at Brown University that claimed two lives and injured many others, Presiding Bishop Yehiel Curry calls the church to prayer, lament, and faithful public action. The statement names gun violence as a symptom of deeper brokenness in our common life and rejects its normalization in U.S. society.

Drawing on the ELCA’s social message on gun violence, Bishop Curry urges evidence-based, life-saving measures alongside sustained advocacy and accompaniment. In this Advent season, the statement affirms that God meets us in suffering and calls the church to work for justice, compassion, and peace. Read the full statement and prayer from Bishop Curry.

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ELCA, Bishop CurryBrian FlatgardBishop Curry Letters, Church and Society, Ecumenical and Inter-Religious RelationsComment
Standing with Our Jewish Neighbors After the Bondi Beach Attack
Standing with Our Jewish Neighbors After the Bondi Beach Attack

Presiding Bishop Yehiel Curry has issued a statement following a deadly terror attack on the Jewish community gathered for a Hanukkah menorah lighting at Bondi Beach in Australia. Writing on the Third Sunday of Advent, Bishop Curry condemns antisemitism, reaffirms the ELCA’s commitment to opposing anti-Jewish hatred, and calls the church to concrete acts of solidarity, love, and peace with our Jewish neighbors.

Grounded in God’s irrevocable covenant and the hope of Advent, the statement invites prayer and faithful action as an antidote to fear and violence. Read the full statement and prayer from Bishop Curry.

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ELCA, Bishop Curry, Global ChurchBrian FlatgardBishop Curry Letters, Church and Society, Ecumenical and Inter-Religious RelationsComment
AFN News: December Gatherings, Interfaith Events, and Climate Justice Actions
AFN News: December Gatherings, Interfaith Events, and Climate Justice Actions

The latest AFN newsletter highlights December and January interfaith events, including ecology workshops, clergy gatherings, Monday meditations, and the upcoming Midwinter Peace Gathering. It also features climate-justice sign-on opportunities for faith leaders, Giving Machine charity sites, and partner news from across Arizona’s interfaith community.

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AFN Weekly Update: Annual Gathering Nears, Interfaith Events Ahead
AFN Weekly Update: Annual Gathering Nears, Interfaith Events Ahead

AFN shares a full lineup of upcoming events, including the 2025 Annual Gathering (Dec. 2), interfaith Thanksgiving services, prayer walks, ecology workshops, and the “No Amazon for Advent” campaign. Learn more and view all events and advocacy actions in the full AFN newsletter at arizonafaithnetwork.org/newsletter.

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United We Rise: Join the 2025 Arizona Faith Network Annual Gathering
United We Rise: Join the 2025 Arizona Faith Network Annual Gathering

Join faith and community leaders at the 2025 Arizona Faith Network Annual Gathering on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 9 AM–12 PM at the Bahá’í Center in Scottsdale. The morning features guest speaker Gen Kelsang Chenma and honors the 2025 Arizona Leadership Awardees. Register at arizonafaithnetwork.org/annualgathering. A communications toolkit and graphics are available to support congregational sharing.

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Upcoming AFN Events Celebrate Unity, Justice, and Creation Care
Upcoming AFN Events Celebrate Unity, Justice, and Creation Care

Join people of faith across Arizona for AFN’s 2025 Annual Gathering—United We Rise on Dec. 2, honoring Rep. Patty Contreras for her leadership in unity and service. Explore more events including an interfaith Prayer Walk, Reconciliation Ecology Workshop, and the No Amazon for Advent pledge. Read the full newsletter at arizonafaithnetwork.org/newsletter.

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United We Rise: Join the 2025 Arizona Faith Network Annual Gathering
United We Rise: Join the 2025 Arizona Faith Network Annual Gathering

Join faith and community leaders at the 2025 Arizona Faith Network Annual Gathering on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 9 AM–12 PM at the Bahá’í Center in Scottsdale. The morning features guest speaker Gen Kelsang Chenma and honors the 2025 Arizona Leadership Awardees. Register at arizonafaithnetwork.org/annualgathering. A communications toolkit and graphics are available to support congregational sharing.

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