Abrahamic House Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras (also known as Shrove Tuesday) is a Christian holiday that celebrates the end of Carnival and beginning of Lent. Lent is the 40 day period prior to Easter, and is a time in the Christian calendar marked by…
Tommy Rudd Fleming
Embracing the World: Love in the Life and Thought of Jelalladin Rumi.
Rumi began his adult life as a scholar of Muslim jurisprudence, but one day a fellow by the name of Shams Tabrizi showed up in his classroom and asked a question that turned Rumi on his head and redirected his…
Roses In Sand At Abrahamic House
Eid al-Adha Celebration
Eid Mubarak! The Abrahamic House Fellows welcomed guests to an event celebrating Eid al-Adha. Guests learned about the story behind a major Islamic Holiday—a story of Abraham and Isaac known in other Abrahamic faiths as well. The event started at…
Mysticism in the Abrahamic Traditions
At their core, religious traditions throughout history have been a path to bring people closer to the divine. In the search for oneness with God, beliefs and practices within the three Abrahamic traditions have converged and diverged over time. In…
Havdalah and Happy Hour
Guests came to celebrate Havdalah with Abrahamic House and enjoyed a warm summer night on our deck with drinks! Havdallah is the closing ritual for Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest. It is celebrated through a richly sensory experience, symbolizing…
A Talk With Dr. Zaid Brifkani
Guests joined the Abrahamic House Fellows for a talk at 5:30PM with Dr. Zaid Brifkani on World Refugee Day (June 20th). Dr. Brifkani hails from Iraqi Kurdistan and is the author of the novel “The Mountains We Carry.” In his…
Hope and Resiliency: The Story of Africa’s Great Green Wall
Since the 1970’s, Africans have been dreaming and working towards the goal of a Great Green Wall, an effort to reverse the desertification trend across the Sahel region that borders the Sahara Desert by planting a “wall” of trees across…
Shavuot Party
Abrahamic House Fellows joined Abrahamic. House in celebrating Shavuot, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the Israelites receiving the Torah at Sinai and the wheat harvest. It’s traditional in many communities to celebrate Shavuot by eating dairy, so cheesecake and blintzes…