interfaith

As some of you know, I also work with Faith in Public Life and this Sunday, April 13, CNN will be broadcasting a special conversation with presidential candidates* Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama. This historic Compassion Forum has been organized by interfaith leaders from across the ideological spectrum and will focus on five key issues: domestic and international poverty, global AIDS, climate change, genocide in Darfur, and human rights and torture.

We were warned by a religion professor not to go, that we might be demon-possessed. We went anyway. Several compact cars pulled away from Southern’s campus at noon on Monday, October 22, packed full of damp students who were willing to brave the rain and claustrophobia in order to see him. We were going, whether we were excused from our classes or not. The Dalai Lama was worth it all, we reasoned.

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