"The more I wonder, the more I love.” ― Alice Walker
Partner Events
MnMN Organizational Partners and Individual Members are welcome to submit events and news for inclusion in our newsletter. To make a submission, please email us. Submissions for the next newsletter are due Friday, June 30. If you are not yet an Organizational Partner or Individual Member, we encourage you to join us!
Succulent Terrarium Making
Saturday, July 22, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Wisdom Ways, 1890 Randolph Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55105
Join Wisdom Ways for a succulent terrarium creating class led by Danielle Clausnitzer. (Danielle is also Chair of MnMN's Emerging Leaders Multifaith Action Committee, which invites young people into conversation and shared service to create meaningful and sustainable multifaith conversation.) Together we will create something that you can be proud of and some to add beauty to your home. And we will have fun doing it! Don't forget to invite your friends and family to share in the joy of the natural world. Each participant will receive all supplies necessary to create a succulent terrarium. Succulents will vary. No prior experience is necessary, plant instructions will be provided to all participants to ensure proper care of your new terrarium!
Saturday, July 29, 5:00 – 8:00 pm, Good Courage Farm, 21161 York Rd, Hutchinson, MN 55350
This community gathering by Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light is an opportunity to thank and support southern MN regenerative farmers. Community members provide the food and farmers can come and enjoy an evening off from cooking, and singing led by songleader Sarina Partridge. All are welcome. Good Courage Farm is a regenerative fruit farm and home to a non-profit agrarian ministry affiliated with The Episcopal Church in MN. Register by emailing deacon@goodcourage.farm. Note in your email if you are able to provide a dish.
Dakota Sacred Sites Tours
July 29, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm or September 21, 3:00 - 7:00 pm, St. Peter's Catholic Church,1405 Sibley Memorial Hwy, St. Paul, MN 55120
Healing Minnesota Stories is an effort to create understanding and healing between Native American and non-Native people, particularly those in various faith communities. Native people have suffered deep trauma over many years, losing their land, language, and culture; all who call Minnesota home are the lesser for it. While many people and institutions contributed to that trauma, it happened with the full participation of Christian churches. We all still need healing, healing is doable, and churches have a role to play in healing.
We believe in the healing power of stories. One way church members can engage in healing is by participating in Healing Minnesota Stories Dakota Sacred Sites Tours. Groups travel to local places and hear stories about why these places are both sacred and traumatic to the Dakota people. Attendance is limited. FYI: Tours have been popular and fill quickly.
Tuesday, August 1, 8, 15, 22, 4:00 - 6:00 pm, various Twin Cities locations
In August, Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light is offering Community Connector Circle meetings as in-person events on popular patios around the Twin Cities Metro. These meetings are a great place to network with other congregation leaders working on climate justice, to share ideas and the challenges we face, and to get inspired for this fall. Come join us at the date and place most convenient for you!
Join Compassion & Choices for the webinar As the End Nears: Dying With Dementia. Dr. Natalie Young, geriatrician and palliative care physician at the University of California San Francisco, will discuss late-stage dementia and what to expect at the end of life.
We aim to offer you a better understanding of what to expect with advanced dementia. With this information, we hope you feel more empowered to plan, prepare and make the decisions necessary to guide your care. Similar to prior webinars in this series (As the End Nears: Dying with Heart Failure, Kidney Failure, Cancer and ALS), we will discuss disease progression of this disease and options for the end of life.
Application Deadline: August 15, 2023 Day Long Retreat: Saturday, October 14, 2023 Overnight Retreat: Friday - Saturday, March 8-9, 2024 Monthly Gatherings: October 2023 - May 2024, second Saturday each month, 8:00am - Noon unless scheduled as a retreat
Learn how to build authentic relationships and give mutual, reciprocal support to BIPOC clergy. Our gatherings will include teaching and learning, sharing around trauma experiences and responses, spiritual direction, healing, and reconciliation through somatic practices and action steps. After 6 months, each participant will be paired with a BIPOC seminarian to connect and support.
Cost: $200/participant (a $2700 value subsidized for clergy) For more information: jiastarrbrown@gmail.com.
If you would like to help fund this effort, please donate here and make a note that the donation is for Clergy Ubuntu.
Broke and Woke: The Police and the Church After George Floyd
Wednesday, August 16, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm, Minnesota Church Center, 122 W Franklin Ave #100, Minneapolis, MN 55404
How do you advocate racial justice through law and faith? Join Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Rev. Dr. Curtiss Paul DeYoung of the Minnesota Council of Churches for a conversation on the connections between their leadership in different sectors in Minnesota after the murder of George Floyd. Your donation of $40 will provide you with a thank you gift: copies of AG Ellison’s book, Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence, and Rev. DeYoung’s book The Risk of Being Woke: Sermonic Reflections for Activists. This is a limited-attendance event.
From early on Christians have defined Christianity in relation to the Jewish tradition from which it emerged. But when articulating Christian faith vis-à-vis Judaism, most Christian teachers and preachers down through the centuries have misrepresented Judaism, expressing anti-Jewish perspectives that often have fanned the flames of antisemitic attitudes and behaviors. The result of this has not only been dire for Jews, including in the last several years in the United States where there has been a dramatic increase of hate crimes against Jews, but has also distorted Christian self-understanding and faith. In this presentation, Rabbi Ryan Dulkin will focus on several things that Christians generally misunderstand about Judaism and why this matters for Jews, Christians, and others.
Join the Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light team promoting economic equity and clean energy by raising awareness of the cooperatively run Midtown Community Solar Garden now accepting subscribers. MNIPL seeks volunteer help with tabling, door knocking, flyering, writing, and other creative outreach. Contact MNIPL organizer Joshua Lewis if interested.
India Association of Minnesota (IAM) cordially invites you to participate in their annual signature event, “IndiaFest 2023,” to celebrate 50 years of IAM. Saturday, August 12, 11:00 am, Minnesota State Capitol Grounds
Friends for a NonViolent World (FNVW), in collaboration with Twin Cities Nonviolent (TCNV) and many other peace and justice groups are organizing a Walk for Peace and Justice. Saturday, September 30, 10:00 am, Brackett Park in Minneapolis
MnMN Seeking Summer 2023 Intern for Interfaith Mapping Project!
The Minnesota Multifaith Network seeks interns to assist staff and volunteers of MnMN with the following tasks:
Gather information about multifaith groups in Minnesota. Information to be gathered includes nature and purpose of the group, leadership and contact information for leaders, activity.
Update and refine MnMN’s website map of multifaith groups, organizational partners and individual members.
Extend invitations to religious leaders, faith communities and organizations to join MnMN.
Gather information about individual participants in various traditions who have an interest in interfaith relations. Help find ways for them to take action in their own faith communities, organizations, interfaith groups or with MnMN. If you are interested, please contact Dr. Jen Kilps.
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