Religion teams prepared to collect in Calgary to have fun variety and their connections

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The function of religion in society is as essential as ever, particularly with a lot of the world dealing with issues of battle, poverty, meals shortages and a lot extra.

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“The necessity for religion . . . is actually as profound now because it ever was,” says Rabbi Mark Glickman. “When faith does it proper — in a contemporary, democratic society — it provides individuals knowledge and perception into the issues that problem us all.”

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Religion acts as a voice of motive in our group, talking out in opposition to cruelty and mistreatment wherever we see it, and changing these acts with hope, dignity and respect for others, says Glickman, who’s chair of the Calgary Interfaith Council.

It’s certainly one of many causes so many individuals join with the thought of celebrating our faiths, at occasions such because the Calgary Interfaith Breakfast being held Could 4.

All are invited to the breakfast by Mayor Jyoti Gondek and the Calgary Interfaith Council on the DoubleTree by Hilton, at 2120 sixteenth Ave. N.E., at 8 a.m. (Ticket information is at calgaryinterfaithcouncil.org. When you register as a council member by Monday, ticket costs are lowered.)

The breakfast supplies a chance for Calgarians of all faiths to collect to have fun religion and spirituality throughout the spectrum.

“It’s actually going to be a celebration of the wealthy non secular variety that’s a lot part of our Calgary group,” says Glickman, a rabbi at Temple B’nai Tikvah.

“There’s such an incredible variety of spiritual teams in Calgary and infrequently we silo ourselves,” he says. “We spend time with our particular person communities — and that’s fantastic —  however this is a chance to satisfy each other, to study from each other and study not solely what’s comparable however about all of the fantastic issues that make us totally different.”

Whereas members of assorted communities might disagree on a wide range of matters, it’s essential to notice that regardless of these variations, “we will sit collectively on the similar desk and break bread collectively.”

A spotlight of the breakfast is that this 12 months’s keynote speaker, Cree Elder Doreen Spence, who’s an energetic elder-in-residence with the College of Calgary Cumming College of Medication’s Indigenous, Native and International Well being Workplace.

An Order of Canada awardee, Spence’s lifetime profession focus has been therapeutic and wellness. Her matter for the breakfast is “We’re one beneath Creator.”