The 27^th Annual Spring Colloquium

The New Mexico Interfaith Dialogue invites you to attend our virtual 2022 Spring Colloquium: Faith in Challenging Times
Sunday, May 15, 2022, 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Following a two-year Colloquium hiatus during Covid and recognizing the time’s many life-altering events, we look forward to our speakers helping us meet challenges yet to come as we consider questions such as:
1. How does your faith tradition define faith? Is it an entity, an action, a relationship, or something other? What examples support this definition?
2. What keeps faith alive, and what is our responsibility? Do we expect God to carry the load?
3. How do difficulties and challenges offer opportunities for individuals and faith communities to grow?
4. We see the phrase “In God we trust” on US coins. What does it mean to trust in God and how is this expressed?

Speakers

Rabbi Paul Citrin Dialogue Co-founder

Rabbi Paul J. Citrin was ordained by the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in 1973. He graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History in 1968. The focus of his rabbinate has always been in congregational life. His passions are education, Israel, and social justice. He is the author of several books, the co-editor of Gates of Repentance for Young People, published by CCAR Press in 2002, and the editor of Lights in the Forest: Rabbis Respond to Twelve Essential Jewish Questions, published by CCAR Press in 2014.

Rabbi Citrin is married to Susan Morrison Citrin. They have four children and eight grandchildren. Rabbi Citrin is currently serving as the rabbi of the Taos Jewish Center.

Archbishop John Wester Archdiocese of Santa Fe

Archbishop John Wester

Ordained a priest on May 15, 1976. Consecrated and installed as auxiliary bishop of San Francisco and appointed vicar general on September 18, 1998. Appointed Bishop of Salt Lake City on January 8, 2007. Installed as the twelfth Archbishop of Santa Fe on June 4, 2015.

Rev. Dr. Margaret McFaddin Grant Chapel AME Church

Rev. Dr. Margaret Redmond McFaddin is in her 20th year of pastoral ministry in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.  She has pastored in Missouri, Colorado, and Arizona and New Mexico, where she was appointed to Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2020.

She lives out her commitment to God’s people through preaching, teaching, organizing and serving the community.  She is a member of the New Mexico Council of Churches, lending her voice to the unheard and raising social justice awareness in privileged spaces. She is also a member of the Ministerial Alliance of New Mexico and Greater Community.

Rev. Dr. McFaddin earned a Bachelor of Science in Education (University of Mississippi 1979), Master of Business Administration (Pepperdine University 1990), Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry (Eden Theological Seminary 2006, 2012).   She is married to Adam McFaddin, III and their blended family includes two daughters, one son and one grandson.

Moderator Rabbi Min Kantrowitz

Rabbi Min Kantrowitz is a Rabbis Without Borders Fellow, teaches about Crypto Jews and Conversos of New Mexico for Road Scholar/Elderhostel, teaches local Hebrew classes weekly, is part of the clergy team at Congregation Nahalat Shalom and has a private spiritual counseling practice.  She directed the New Mexico Jewish Community Chaplaincy Program for 12 years, serving unaffiliated Jews throughout the state.

A 2004 graduate of the Academy for Jewish Religion, California, she is the author of “Counting the Omer: A Kabbalistic Meditation Guide” and the co-author, with a Christian and a Muslim, of “Three Paths: One God: Traditional Scriptures and New Prayers”..  Rabbi Kantrowitz is a former psychologist, a former architect/planner, a wife, mother and the proud Bubbie of three grandsons.

If you plan to join this Colloquium Zoom call, please register at [email protected] . Please send by May 13th, your name & contact information in which you will be accessing the Zoom link.  The link will be sent to you on May 14th in the evening, the day before the Zoom call. 

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