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Community Care: Libraries and Faith Organizations in Conversation

Virtual Program

The second event in a four-part series of interfaith conversations exploring the ways faith traditions and service organizations encourage soulful wellbeing in our communities. This week, panelists explore the roles of service providers. For adults.

This fall, LA County Library offers a series of virtual roundtable conversations exploring the intersections between community service in libraries and in faith organizations. These interfaith dialogues will bring together religious leaders from a diversity of traditions to discuss the ways in which libraries and faith-based organizations can work side by side to encourage soulful wellbeing in our communities. The purpose of these conversations is to encourage a broader understanding of the types of organizations that provide care and service to our communities, an understanding that promotes opportunities for partnership and connection between libraries and faith organizations. 

The second event in the series is titled “Who We Are,” and is about the people who do community service, through religious work or library work. Our organizations are made up of a diverse group of individuals, and while not everyone has the same backstory there are common qualities that call a person to community service. Joining the conversation this week are Rabbi Heather Miller, Najeeba Syeed, and Roy Twobears Delarosa. 

Rabbi Heather Miller is the founder of Keeping It Sacred, a global community dedicated to the intrepid exploration of sacred texts, the practice of meaningful rituals, and the unwavering pursuit of social justice. Najeeba Syeed is the inaugural El-Hibri endowed chair and executive director of Interfaith at Augsburg at Augsburg University and has been a professor in the fields of conflict resolution and interfaith studies. Roy Twobears Delarosa is the spiritual advisor for the Native American Veterans Association. He is Yaqui/Apache and is recognized by the Native American Orthodox Church of America. 

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