{"id":73646,"date":"2019-04-29T12:27:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T18:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=73646"},"modified":"2019-04-29T12:27:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T18:27:18","slug":"an-interfaith-panel-discussion-in-poway-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/04\/an-interfaith-panel-discussion-in-poway-california.html","title":{"rendered":"An interfaith panel discussion in Poway, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35359\" style=\"width: 664px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/07\/san-diego-california-temple-grounds-1164680-gallery.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35359\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/07\/san-diego-california-temple-grounds-1164680-gallery.jpg\" alt=\"California's third temple, I believe\" width=\"664\" height=\"442\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Diego California Temple\u00a0(LDS Media Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As most of you are already aware, violent religious bigotry claimed an innocent life \u2014 and significantly damaged the lives of others \u2014 in Poway, California, down near San Diego, on Saturday, 27 April 2019. \u00a0Poway is a community in which I had spent significant time just a couple of weeks before, as part of an effort (spearheaded by the Poway California Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) to further interreligious understanding and mutual appreciation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than once, when Steve Vaus, the mayor of Poway, California, has spoken with national and local news media \u00a0about the tragic Saturday shooting at the Chabad synagogue in his city, he has said something to the effect of\u00a0\u201cJust a week or so ago we had an interfaith event in Poway where we talked about building bridges instead of barriers. We talked about finding common ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is referring to an interfaith panel discussion co-sponsored by the\u00a0Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Poway Interfaith Team \u2014 and held in the Latter-day Saint stake center there, only minutes from the Chabad synagogue \u2014 titled\u00a0\u201cWhat the Tabernacle Means to Us.\u201d \u00a0The mayor himself attended and participated in that evening\u2019s program. \u00a0Featuring\u00a0Brother Yusef Miller (Islamic Center of San Diego), Professor Daniel Peterson (Brigham Young University, representing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), Monsignor Dennis Mikulanis (San Rafael Parish), Cantor Caitlin Bromberg (Spiritual Leader of Ner Tamid Synagogue), and, as moderator, Reverend Glen Larsen (Community Church of Poway), the panel was\u00a0one of the special events held in connection with the two-week-long exhibition of a life-size replica of the Old Testament Tabernacle of Moses on the lawn adjacent to the Poway California stake center.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the urging of Mayor Vaus, who considers that 11 April 2019 interfaith panel discussion far more representative of the Poway community than the evil committed by a religiously bigoted murderer, an audio recording of the program is now freely available on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xV2Km0j1wAM&amp;feature=youtu.be\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Interfaith Panel Discussion \u2013 \u201cWhat the Tabernacle Means to Us\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It seems that no video recording of the interfaith panel was made, so the audio recording is accompanied on YouTube by various still photographs taken during the discussion and on the night of the event. \u00a0The sound quality is pretty good, though. \u00a0Certainly adequate, so far as I have listened.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of you might perhaps find it of interest. \u00a0Altogether, it lasts about an hour and twelve minutes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"player\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-flexy\">\n<div id=\"player-container-outer\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-flexy\">\n<div id=\"player-container-inner\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-flexy\">\n<div class=\"ytp-paid-content-overlay\" aria-live=\"assertive\" aria-atomic=\"true\" data-layer=\"4\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"info\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-flexy\">\n<div id=\"info-contents\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-flexy\">\n<div id=\"container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 As most of you are already aware, violent religious bigotry claimed an innocent life \u2014 and significantly damaged the lives of others \u2014 in Poway, California, down near San Diego, on Saturday, 27 April 2019. \u00a0Poway is a community in which I had spent significant time just a couple of weeks before, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>An interfaith panel discussion in Poway, California<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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