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Lent 2008
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Lent begins on Wednesday, February 6.  There will be services of the Holy Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes at 7:00 AM, 12:00 noon and 7:30 PM.  The 7:30 Eucharist will be a choral celebration.

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Wednesday Evenings in Lent - Religion and Religious Toleration in the Age of Globalization— A Lenten Program

One of the pressing topics of the day is how people of different religions and cultures can live together in a in a world that is (for good or ill) inexorably interconnected.  For many, the issue of religious conflict on an international level has come as a great surprise since for most of modern history Western (Europe and later, North America) conflicts have been national and, in the Cold War period, ideological.   Since the end of the World War II, there have been no major national wars; then, with the end of the Cold War, the age of ideological conflict came to an end.  Some believed that the interconnectedness that was evolving after the end of the Cold War would bring about an era of peace, concord and economic growth.  Others, especially Samuel Huntington in his 1995 book, The Clash of Cultures and the Re-making of the World Order, suggested that the post-ideological- conflict-world would be replaced by a world in which local cultural and religious conflicts would rile the economically and technologically interconnected world.  It appears that Huntington was a prophet.

Christ Church and St. Stephen’s Church (Port Washington) will present a joint Lenten Study Program on religious and cultural conflict and religious and cultural toleration on Wednesdays in Lent.  We will probe the dynamics of ‘accepting the other and rejecting the other’ from anthropological, religious and historical perspectives.  We will consider why religions have so much trouble co-existing and the role that ‘religious-exclusivity’ plays in the conflicts within the post-modernist world.

Soup and salad will be served at 7:00 PM and the program itself will commence at 7:45 PM and last for an hour.  The evening ends with Compline and we will send participants home by 9:00 PM.     

The sessions on Wednesday evening February 13, 27 and March 12 will be held at Christ Church.  The sessions on February 20 and March 5 will be at St. Stephen’s Church.




1 February 2008