Our “guest” this Sunday will be Professor Omid Safi. He is the Iranian-American Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University, and (in my limited experience) one of the most compassionate, wise and loving voices I have encountered in the often deeply divisive conversation about the devastating conflict in Palestine / Israel. I won’t offer anything further by way of review. My desire would be for each person to have their own experience with this, even as we consider it together.

We will gather at our usual time (10:45 a.m.) at VA Cafe, and after we have a chance to check in with one another we’ll get right into the video because it will require the remaining time if we want to see it through to the end. As noted in the subject line, there will be Kids Table programming as well. We won’t be livestreaming or podcasting this one, but I’ll put a link to the video below so that we can share the experience in some way, even if we can’t attend in person.

Love With Justice

I’m going to leave us with some words from Rumi to help aim us at the spirit of what we will share together. I’ll see you on Sunday.

Peace,

-Tim Plett

You and I
have to live
As if you and I
had never heard
of a you
and
an I.

— Jelaluddin Rumi