The Pacific Northwest Interfaith Amigos will present lectures on the North Olympic Peninsula on Saturday and Sunday.
Imam Jamal Rahman and Rabbi Ted Falcon of Seattle and Pastor Dave Brown of Tacoma will discuss finding peace through spiritual practice at 2 p.m. Saturday at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 E. Lopez Ave. in Port Angeles, and at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Port Townsend High School auditorium, 1500 Van Ness St., where doors will open at 1:30 p.m.
Question-and-answer periods will follow the lectures.
Admission is free to both, although free-will offerings will be accepted at the door.
Rahman, Falcon and Pastor Don Mackenzie wrote “Finding Peace Through Spiritual Practice: The Interfaith Amigos’ Guide to Personal, Social and Environmental Healing,” a book that has sparked reading groups all over the Peninsula.
Mackenzie has since moved to Minneapolis, so Brown of Tacoma’s Immanuel Presbyterian Church has stepped in for him — creating the Pacific Northwest Interfaith Amigos.
The Pacific Northwest Interfaith Amigos also will speak at two services Sunday — at 9:15 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. — at Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave. “Finding Compassion in a Time of Turmoil” is the title of their message.
Study groups have formed across the Peninsula. Port Townsend has 15 organizations sponsoring study groups with more than 175 participants, said the Rev. Barb Laski, who organized the first Peninsula groups, those in East Jefferson County.
Some 19 groups have formed in Clallam County, many of which are still accepting new participants.
Marilyn Eash of the Interfaith Community of Clallam County said she organized study groups in Clallam County after seeing Laski’s success in Jefferson County with what is called a “spiritual read.”
For more information in East Jefferson County, see www.spiritualread.org or call Laski at 360-301-1855.
For more information in Clallam County, email interfaithclallamcounty@gmail.com or call Eash at 360-477-0681.
