BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:13230d55-9e32-45f3-93bd-b81195082da5.181681@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20170816T212809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T212809Z LOCATION:Plaster Student Union\, Robert W. Theater SUMMARY:PAW Presentation with Dr. Eboo Patel - Our Common Life: Sustainabi lity through Interfaith Connections DESCRIPTION:In a world where diverse faith communities interact with great frequency and intensity\, how can we both preserve the particularities o f our distinct faith traditions while promoting positive interfaith coope ration? How can interfaith interaction improve cultural competency and r elationships in ways that strengthen our civil society? \n\n\nJoin Dr. E boo Patel in discovering possibilities to these questions and many more. \n\n\nDr. Patel founded Interfaith Youth Core on the idea that religion should be a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division. He i s inspired to build this bridge by his identity as an American Muslim nav igating a highly religiously diverse social landscape. For more than 15 y ears\, he has worked with governments\, social sector organizations and c ollege and university campuses to help make interfaith cooperation a soci al norm. Named by U.S. News & World Report as one of America’s Best Leade rs of 2009\, Dr. Patel served on President Obama’s Inaugural Faith Counci l and is the author of Acts of Faith\, Sacred Ground and Interfaith Leade rship. He holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford Univ ersity\, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
In a world where diverse faith communities interact with great freque
ncy and intensity\, how can we both preserve the particularities of our d
istinct faith traditions while promoting positive interfaith cooperation?
 \;How can interfaith interaction improve cultural competency and re
lationships in ways that strengthen our civil society?  \;
Join Dr. Eboo Patel in discovering possibilities to these ques tions and many more.  \;
\nDr. Patel \;founded
 \;Interfaith Youth Core \;on the idea that religion should be a bridge of cooperation ra
ther than a barrier of division. He is inspired to build this bridge by h
is identity as an American Muslim navigating a highly religiously diverse
social landscape. For more than 15 \;years\, he has worked with gove
rnments\, social sector organizations and college and university campuses
to help make interfaith cooperation a social norm. Named by U.S. News &a
mp\; World Report as one of America&rsquo\;s Best Leaders of 2009\, Dr. P
atel \;served on President Obama&rsquo\;s Inaugural Faith Council and
is the author of Acts of Faith\, Sacred Ground and Interfaith Leadership
. He holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford Universit
y\, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship.