Lifting Spirits in Challenging Times: Interfaith Responses to the Coronavirus Crisis

11 May 2020
Lifting Spirits in Challenging Times: Interfaith Responses to the Coronavirus Crisis

Victor Kazanjian, Executive Director of URI, speaks as a featured panelist at a webinar examining both the challenges and the opportunities of the COVID-19 crisis from faith and interfaith perspectives: "Lifting Spirits in Challenging Times: Interfaith Responses to the Coronavirus Crisis."

See the full webinar here.

EcoCiv, the event organizer, describes the event: "This crisis we are facing is clearly a multi-faceted danger, but also an opportunity for reflection, collaboration, and growth. This webinar will examine both the challenges and the opportunities of the crisis from faith and interfaith perspectives. It features a coalition of interfaith leaders, who have led different interfaith and professional organizations, and who bring diverse kinds of knowledge and expertise. The webinar will be interactive, so that we can foster a dialogue which will, hopefully, be helpful."


Featured Panelists:

  • Victor Kazanjian, Executive Director of URI
  • Joseph Prabhu, Former Hindu-Catholic Co-Chair of the Southern California Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions
  • Milia Islam-Majeed, Executive Director of the South Coast Interfaith Council
  • Ruth Broyde Sharone, Jewish speaker and author and creator of INTERFAITH: the Musical
  • Philip Clayton, Professor at Claremont School of Theology and President of EcoCiv
  • Tarunjit Singh Butalia, Executive Director of Religions for Peace, USA

Co-Sponsors:

  • Institute for Ecological Civilization
  • Center for Process Studies
  • Claremont School of Theology
  • United Religions Initiative

The webinar aired live on the EcoCiv Facebook page