Posted on: Saturday, November 23, 2002
Faith briefs
'Season for Peace'
The next Season for Peace and Nonviolence begins Jan. 30.
The 64-day celebration of "sustainable peace" includes lectures, workshops and events such as a Run/Walk for Peace; Peace Drum and Dance-a-thon, the Peace House Art Auction, Parade for Peace and an O'ahu gathering.
A Waging Peace conference will include guest speakers Rep. Dennis Kucinich; Marianne Williamson; Dr. Ilchi Lee, founder of the Dahn Hak Centers worldwide; and Neal Donald Walsh.
A free kickoff fund-raiser will be held 6:30 p.m. Dec. 4 at Windward Community College's Paliku Theater, with a showing of "Soldiers of Peace, a Children's Crusade." The video tells the story of young Colombian peacemakers who persuaded the government to put a moratorium on war for 24 hours, so that not a single shot was fired from a soldier's gun.
For more information about coming events, call Sheryl Jai, 479-5179 or Sue Blocki-McKenna, 696-8701.
Advent celebrated
An advent procession with readings, hymns, choral anthems and banners with the theme "The O Antiphons" will be held at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 1 at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu, 1730 Punahou St.
The format will follow the tradition of King's College in Cambridge, England. Scripture readings and prayers will be followed by a hymn, carol or choral anthem. Chants will be sung at Vespers, which in the original Gregorian version were performed during the eight days before Christmas according to the names of God: O Wisdom, O Adonai, O Root of Jesse, O Key of David, O Rising Dawn, O King of Nations, and O Emmanuel. All will be performed at this service.
The Lutheran Church of Honolulu Choir and Compline Choir, conducted by Carl Crosier and Allen Bauchle, will perform works by Peter Hallock, Hugo Distler, Judith Weir, Kenneth Leighton, Charles Stanford and John Rutter.
For information: 941-2566.
Stoles on display
As part of World AIDS Day events, the Shower of Stoles Project will be on display next weekend at First Unitarian Church.
The project gathered 1,200 liturgical stoles from gay people of faith across North America — including ministers and lay clergy — who have been "barred from serving their faith community because of their sexual orientation, or who had to choose between being silent or losing their livelihood," according to the Rev. Vaughn Beckman of First Christian Church, one of the organizers.
The project began in the Presbyterian church in 1995, and has grown to include stoles from 18 denominations.
The opening gathering Friday will include a 7 p.m. showing of the 30-minute video "So Great a Cloud of Witnesses: The Story of the Shower of Stoles Project." New stoles will be added to the collection after the film.
For more information: the Rev. Beckman, 521-3500.
