Community Conversations

Our conversation partners have embarked on another round of community dialogue centered around love & forgiveness.

• The Friends of the Northeast Interfaith Peace Garden's conversations have turned into an annual Lenten practice. This year, they plan to add a "conversation bench" to encourage contemplation & dialogue in their Garden of Forgiveness.
• Fusion Partnerships will use their conversations to explore the notion of a "beloved community" and how their work in social & restorative justice programs can contribute to that notion.
• The Interfaith Fairness Coalition of MD continues their work in the GLBT and faith communities to seed more dialogues around race and healing with the Traces of the Trade film.
• Past campaign work of Nyame-Nti Cultural Healing Arts Therapy (N-CHAT) with youth residents of the Woodbourne Center have led to the formation of the Woodbourne Love & Forgiveness Drummers performing group. (Check out one of their recent performances. Click on Your News #18 and skip to 21:20). Their love & forgiveness conversations have become an integral part of their therapeutic practices with Woodbourne youth.

You can see each of our campaign partners' work highlighted on MPT and MPT2 in interstitial spots throughout our broadcast schedule this Winter/Spring. MPT is grateful to our partners for their important work in the community and for their collaboration throughout the campaign!

Want to start your own series of love & forgiveness conversations? Click here for discussion guides, conversation cards, and other resources to help guide your dialogues.

Related Broadcasts

• Anyone and Everyone. A heart-wrenching documentary on the unconditional love stories of parents of gay children. Watch the trailer, order the DVD, and download discussion guides.
• The Mystery of Love. The first documentary of the Campaign for Love & Forgiveness, this film explores the many facets and types of love. Video clips, educator resources, and more stories of love online.
• The Power of Forgiveness. Through stories on 9/11, Northern Ireland reconciliation efforts, and the writings of several noted authors, this film examines the psychological and physical effects of forgiveness. Take the How Forgiving Are You? quiz, access forgiveness tools and resources, and order the DVD and companion book online.
• This Emotional Life. Three-part PBS series that examines the path to happiness and mental wellness. Watch the series online and get connected to local mental health resources.
• Traces of the Trade. This 90-minute POV documentary tells the story of the DeWolf family's legacy in the slave trade. Nine descendants one of the largest American slave traders retrace the Triangle Trade from Ghana to Cuba to Providence, RI. Download discussion guides, view the trailer and related clips, and order the DVD & companion book online.

ALSO: March 28 at 8 PM on Lifetime
Amish Grace. Dramatic recreation of the Nickel Mines schoolhouse tragedy.

Upcoming Events in the Community

• April 14 & 15
  Elizabeth Gilbert, author of New York Times bestsellers Eat, Pray, Love: One Women's Search for Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia, and Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, visits the Frederick area with stops at Hood College, Frederick Community College, and the Weinberg Center for the Arts. Meet Ms. Gilbert, and hear her speak about her ongoing journey of love, forgiveness, hope, and healing. Sponsored by Frederick Reads. For more event information and tickets, visit http://www.frederickreads.org/upcoming.htm.

• April 18, 1-4 PM
  Miraculous Health Seminar: Heal Yourself of Stress, Illness, Pain, Depression or Anxiety Using the Power of Mind-body Medicine. Dr. Rick Levy, a pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine will demonstrate the infinite power of the human mind and how to access this power to heal from stress, illness, pain or emotional turmoil. He will guide participants through the use of a simple, state-of-the-art scientific techniques that will deliver immediate and measurable relief from distress and disease. Dr. Levy will also teach how to employ the techniques needed to heal other people or situations. The easy to learn techniques deliver profound physical and mental well being and power that participants can use to heal themselves.
  Where: Jewish Community Center of Owings Mills, 3506 Gwynnbrook Avenue, Owings Mills 21117. Advance registration is required.
  For more information call Eileen Berman 410 356-5200 ext. 324 or eberman@jcc.org

Check back soon for details on our campaign culmination event in June!