Featuring:

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• Dr. Dale Bishop, former Executive Minister of UCC Wider Church Ministries, is a Middle East Scholar and has written extensively on Iran, Lebanon, and the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
• Imam Ismail M.M. Elshikh, Ph.D. of the Hawai‘i Muslim Association and visiting professor of Islamic studies at the Graduate Theological Foundation and Islamic University of Minnesota.
• Rev. Dr. David Greenhaw, President of Eden Theological Seminary and Professor of Preaching and Worship, is a frequent speaker and preacher at gatherings around the world. Most recently, he lectured and preached in Ghana, taught at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut, Lebanon, and participated in a World Council of Churches conference on Christians in the Middle East.
• Bishop Eric Matsumoto, head of the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawai‘i.
• Rabbi Peter Schaktman leader of the O‘ahu Jewish ‘Ohana. Prior to becoming a rabbi, he spent two years living in an Israeli Arab village as a community worker in Arab-Jewish relations.
• Rev. Dr. Damayanthi Niles, Professor of Constructive Theology at Eden Theological Seminary, teaches in the areas of interfaith studies, comparative theology, contextual theology with particular interest in Asia, and language of theology in a landscape of conflict and violence.

The moderators will be:

• Pieper Toyama, President, Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii and former Head of School of the Pacific Buddhist Academy
• Sister Joan Chatfield, M.M., Ph.D., Executive Director of the Institute for Religion and Social Change

Light refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by The Interfaith Alliance Hawai‘i through a generous gift to Eden Seminary from Armin and Shirley Limper, who are former United Church of Christ Missionaries and live in Hawaii, for creating programs that engage the wider community in theological thinking on religions and religious people of the world.

Please Join Us – All Are Welcome