Sunday, June 26th was not an ordinary Sunday in churches and places of worship all over the country. Participating in a project of Interfaith Alliance and Human Rights First called Faith Shared: Uniting in Prayer and Understanding, dozens of houses of worship held interfaith services highlighting the shared values and common history of the three Abrahamic faiths, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. The project was very successful. Congregations in 34 States and the District of Columbia and 70 congregations participated from California to Iowa to the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. In a time when inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric and outright bigotry are common and interfaith dialogue is not always as newsworthy, Faith Shared was an amazing opportunity to create an open and accepting conversation about religious differences and similarities both nationally and in local communities.
If you could not attend one of the Faith Shared services, or if you did and want to experience others, I highly recommend visiting the Faith Shared Gallery where there are pictures and full videos of Faith Shared services. I found the one at the National Cathedral where Rev. Gaddy spoke, particularly moving. If you’re interested in reading about some other Faith Shared services there were articles in the Washington Post, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, and many others that are being constantly added to the Faith Shared Press Page. You can also check out the Faith Shared resources page for readings and a resource kit for creating an Interfaith Community.
Clergy from the three Abrahamic faiths pray together in the Faith Shared Service at the National Cathedral in Washington. Left to Right, Rabbi Amy Schwartzman, Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd II, Imam Mohammed Magid, Rev. Dr. Welton Gaddy. Photo Credit: Edward Graham
For more on the preparations for Faith Shared: Uniting in Prayer and Understanding check out these discussions with Dr. Maher Hathout and Rev. J. Edwin Bacon on State of Belief. (Please note, these are extended versions of the interviews originally broadcast nationwide.)
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The exemptions that Christians seek to keep gay activists (leftists) from infiltrating and attacking their Churches is so very legitimate. LGBT’s and the progressive movement is starting to resemble what it always has been. An authoritarian anti-Christian movement. Christians that rightfully oppose active and activist homosexuals know full well that these unrestrained people and their supporters are just about as antithetical to Christians truth as Satan’s perspective was when talking with Jesus.
Comments meant for the gay agenda article.
Addressing Gaddy’s anti-Christian religious universalism:
The attempt to homogenize the Gospel with anti Christian elements is yet one more place to see the intrinsic evil of men like Gaddy on full display.
The entire mission of Jesus and the Apostles is whitewashed over by Gaddy into not only a different Gospel, but of one decidely targeting faithful Christians as yet again, enemies of mankind.
Watching this play out is alarming, but it does reinforce the warnings of Jesus and the voices of the New Testament witness.
Gaddy is easily defined as a bad guy.
I’ll keep telling every faithful Christian I know to be very aware of what “State of Belief” is doing. It is better to have evil exposed than to bury one’s head in the sand and hope guys like Gaddy will go away.