2007 Good Heart Inter-Religious Dialogue:

"Is Violence Ever Justified?"

On November 7th, we held the 4th annual Good Heart Dialogue event, in which students and leaders from the diverse faith groups at Georgetown delved into the spiritual perspectives on violence in religion. We had an excellent turnout, and are looking forward to our next dialogue event! Thanks to all who came out!

Campus Participants:

Rabbi Harold White, Senior Jewish Chaplain at Georgetown University

Imam Yahya Hendi, Senior Muslim Chaplain at Georgetown University

Andrea Bartolli, Visting Scholar of Catholic Studies

Moderator:

Fr. Laurence Freeman, Director of the World Community for Christian Meditation and current director of the John Main Center at Georgetown University.

Hear the audio from the event in its entirety!

Available in parts or as one large file (in .zip format)

Part I - Introductions

Part II - Fr. Laurence's Introduction

Part III - Rabbi White: Thoughts on Violence in Judaism

Part IV - Student Response #1 & Rabbi's Response

Part V - Distinguished Guest Andrea Bartolli: Violence in Christianity

Part VI - Student Response #2 & Rabbi's Response

Part VII - Imam Hendi Discusses Jihad

Part VIII - Student Response #3

Part IX - Audience Question #1 and a response from Imam Hendi

Part X - Violence from a Buddhist student's perspective

Part XI - Audience Question #2 & Imam Hendi's Response

Part XII - Audience Question #3

Part XIII - Open discussion: "are we being educated about nonviolence?"

Part XIV - Fr. Laurence Freeman, OSB: Concluding Remarks

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THE COMPLETE GOOD HEART (.zip)

(Note: all files are in mp3 format, you will be taken to another website where you will be given a unique "download link")

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