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Paul Moses, Guest Preacher
September 29, 2019 @ 12:45 pm - 1:30 pm
Paul Moses, author of The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam, and Francis of Assisi’s Mission of Peace, will be our preacher and presenter in the “Fostering Peace, Then and Now” segment of Instruments of Peace, a new program devoted to St. Francis and his efforts to achieve peace. Paul Moses, a former Newsday city editor and senior religion writer, is a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism.
Instruments of Peace is an original, arts-based, multi-general curriculum conceived by our clergy and funded with a grant for congregational development by Episcopal Ministries of Long Island. Designed for parishioners and neighbors of all ages, the program will celebrate the life and legacy of St. Francis and his concern for peace building. Please join us of any and all of the following:
Sundays, September 15, 22 and 29
10:15-11:30 am—Puppet and Song Writing Workshops for Kids
12:45-1:30 pm —“Fostering Peace, Then and Now”
- 9/15 Birding in Brooklyn Heights with Donna Evans
- 9/22 Neslihan Şenocak, Columbia University
- 9/29 Paul Moses, Author, The Saint and the Sultan
Wednesdays, September 18, 25 and October 2
6:45-7:45 pm—Songwriting workshops in the peace tradition
9/25 at 8:00 pm—Dinner and Screening of The Sultan and the Saint
Sunday, October 6
9:30 am—Children’s St. Francis Day Service
10:30 am—Blessing of the Animals
11:15 am—Festive St. Francis Day Eucharist with guest preacher Ravi Ragbir, Executive Director, New Sanctuary Coalition