Thursday, April 8, 2021
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Monday, April 19, 2021
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
7:00-8:00pm
Tuition: $5 per session (scholarships available)
In this follow-up to the SoL Summer Series, Crises and Suffering: Perspectives from the World’s Religions, we will look at the insights and resources different traditions offer with regard to hope and resilience.
Imam Omar Shakir Islam Thursday, April 8, 2021
Rev. Ann E. Helmke Christianity Thursday, April 15, 2021
Thomas Bruner Buddhism Monday, April 19, 2021
Jacqueline Claire Baha’i Thursday, April 29, 2021
Nammie Ichilov Judaism Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Imam Shakir moved with his family to San Antonio, Texas. In 1988 he was elected Resident Imam of Masjid Luqman in San Antonio, Texas a position he held until 1996. In 2002 he received an interfaith award for Religious Man of the Year for his interfaith and community initiatives. Imam Shakir is a regular participant in ecumenical services and interfaith dialog. He lectures at many of the local colleges, universities, and churches on the religion of Al-Islam. In January of 2005 Imam Shakir fulfilled the fifth requirement in his religion, which is to make the pilgrimage (Hajj) to the sacred house in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. In addition to Imam Shakir’s regular interfaith participation, he has received a number of awards for his service. He is an award recipient from the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). He was also the 2012 recipient of the Peace Center’s Peace Laureate Award. In 2013 the Baha’i Community honored him with the Humanitarian of the Year Award. Currently he is Resident Imam at Masjid Bilal Ibn Rabah of San Antonio, Texas, and employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice as a full-time Imam (Chaplain).
Rev. Ann E. Helmke is an ordained Lutheran minister and currently serves as the Faith Liaison for the City of San Antonio. Prior to serving with the City, Ann was the director of Spiritual Services at Haven for Hope as well as being a co-founder for the 25+ year all volunteer San Antonio peaceCENTER.
A San Antonio native, Thomas Bruner has traveled from CEO of a start-up in Texas, to Vice President of the nation’s largest humanitarian organization in Washington, D.C., to consultant helping businesses and organizations do great work in leadership and governance, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and financial development through Bruner Strategies. He is a senior lay disciple at Dharma Rain Zen Center in Portland, Oregon, one of the country’s leading Soto Zen Buddhist temples. He became a Buddhist in 2003 and took the late Kyogen Carlson, Sensei, as his teacher in 2006.
Jacqueline Claire is an illustrator, storyteller and painter. The focus of her integrated work is to empower audiences to develop a deeper connection to their spiritual reality. Her painting style is a genre all her own, called “spiritual realism”: dream-like images that invite the viewer to tap in to their own innate wisdom. She is also the creator of the book, “Noble Beings: Spiritual Handbook for Children (of All Ages).” Jacqueline currently resides in a little German river town between Austin and San Antonio, Texas.
Nammie Ichilov is the President & CEO of the Jewish Federation of San Antonio. He joined the JFSA team in March 2020 as the Director of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, after having come to San Antonio to found the Brooks Collegiate Academy PK-12 charter school and Early College High School. Nammie is a 30+ year veteran of Jewish education, having earned his Master’s degree at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and his Educational Specialist degree at the University of Central Florida. Nammie has 2 daughters, Jordana & Adina, and just celebrated 25 years of marriage with Lisa.
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