Reverse Open House Series

06/12/2022

Great event today at Naval Lodge No. 4 learning about the Masons! Lodge Historian Isaiah Akin gave us a fantastic tour and answered all of our many questions. A beautiful historic special space.

04/14/2022

Iftar Dinner & Reflection on Fasting with the Rumi Forum
Saturday, April 23rd, 6:30-9:00pm

LDS Chapel - 3400 Clark St. South, Arlington, VA 22202
REGISTER HERE
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iftar-dinner-reflection-on-fasting-in-scripture-with-the-rumi-forum-tickets-318457142887?aff=affiliate1

Ramadan Muburak! As we are currently in the month of Ramadan in the Islamic Calendar, join us for Iftar (dinner to break the fast) and interfaith scripture study on fasting. Hosted at the newest LDS meetinghouse in the area (located inside an apartment building), with food and dialogue facilitation provided by Rumi Forum, you won't want to miss this!

We will be following the scriptural reasoning methodology for our dialogue, specifically designed for adherents to Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) to compare and assess differences and commonalities in each other's holy texts. See you there!

Program:
6:30pm - doors
7:00 - 7:54pm - Scriptural Reasoning Activity
7:54pm - Sundown, Iftar beginsJOin

Gather with the Rumi Forrum at a Latter-day Saint chapel for an interfaith exploration of scripture and communal iftar.

03/27/2022

Fantastic event last Saturday at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception with with Reverend Monsignor Vito and David Zahren. What a wonderful opportunity to learn about the faith promoting history of the Basilica and experience the grandeur of such a large sacred space. Magnificent human-made edifices dedicated to diety help me to hold greater reverence for the great Creator of us all.

01/24/2022

We are excited for our next event at Kesher Israel Synagogue! On Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 5:15 PM we will join a prayer service and engage in a dialog on prayer and sacred space. See the Eventbrite event for more details and please register!

Join us for a 30 minute evening prayer/service and dialogue at Kesher Israel.

01/20/2022

Join us tonight via Zoom at 8pm Eastern Time for a discussion on freemasonry with members of a local lodge! The discussion will feature a dialogue regarding freemasonry and Latter-day Saint temple practices. Register below to get the Zoom link!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/visit-to-the-freemasons-naval-lodge-no-4-tickets-242258029287

01/20/2022

On December 11th, we visited the Catholic Worker House. This visit has given me an appreciation of the individual capacity to foster a sacred spaces and enact radical change. This change is rooted in tangible action flowing from deep religious conviction, largely free of formal religious institutions. House members related how they found their way “home” to the Catholic Worker House, and how they try to live and act on the principles Dorothy Day laid out when she established the movement. This visit has challenged my conception of sacred space. Can sacred spaces exist beyond the bounds of churches, synagogues, mosques, and established ritual? I believe so and listening to the stories shared, we understood that many of the speakers were sharing their relationship to a sacred space.

12/09/2021

The Catholic Worker House hosts us this week where we learn about Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker Movement.

My first real encounter with Dorothy Day was in Paul Ellie's book "An American Pilgrimage." At 8 year's old, Dorothy Day experienced San Francisco's devastating 1908 earthquake. The tremendous charity and love she witnessed towards those impacted by the devastation transformed Day's life.

As Ellie relates "Dorothy Day felt the fear of God and witnessed elemental, biblical charity, the remedy for human loneliness. All her life she would try to recapture the sense of real and spontaneous community she felt then, and would strive to reform the world around her so as to make such community possible."

Check out this PBS documentary on her life for a better appreciation for her sacrifices and the movement she established.

Footage and interviews trace the life of social activist, Catholic convert Dorothy Day.

11/27/2021

But that's not all... On December 11th the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House will be hosting a group of 20 people for a conversation with the residents of the house and an advocacy activity. Saturday, December 11th, 11am. Click the link below to register!

Join us in a visit to the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House, a Catholic community of hospitality and resistance.

11/27/2021

We have two new events coming up! Women & girls are invited to join us at the Ahmadiyya mosque in Silver Spring, MD hosted by the Women's Organization (the equivalent of the Relief Society.) Sunday, December 5th, 3-5pm. Click the link below for more details!

Join us for a visit to the Ahmaddiya mosque in Silver Spring, MD for their Annual open house and an "Understanding Islam" Program.