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News and Events

2019-2020 Programs

News

“Caring for Our Common Home” has been cancelled.
March 12, 2020
Merrimack College has cancelled campus-wide events with 50+ people through April 6th, which includes our March 19th conference on “Caring for Our Common Home: Ethical and Scientific Approaches.” We are in conversation about presenting this important program at a later time and will update this page as we have more information.
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Feed Your Neighbor packed 32K meals!
February 7, 2020
Building community through service, our interfaith coalition of volunteers broke last year’s record of 24K meals.
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Call for Papers: “Jerusalem in Memory and Eschatology”
December 9, 2019
For a conference which will convene in Jerusalem from May 25-28, 2020
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Past Events

March 19, 2020

CANCELED: Caring for Our Common Home: Ethical and Scientific Approaches

***EVENT IS CANCELED***A Conference in Support of the Coalition of Massachusetts Religious Leaders and Scientists
- Location
- Arcidi Center and Cascia Hall
- Time
- 4:00pm to 8:30pm
- Calendar

March 2, 2020

Where We Dwell Together: 17th Annual Interfaith Prayer

We welcome you to our annual prayer service in which we celebrate the Golden Rule in the world’s many faith traditions and honor the Divine Spark in one another.
- Location
- Cascia Hall
- Time
- 7:00pm to 8:00pm
- Calendar

February 4, 2020

Feed Your Neighbor

Join us for our 6th annual interfaith meal-packing program. We need volunteers and funds to pack 24,000 healthy meals for the Merrimack Valley Food Bank.
- Location
- MPR in the Sakowich Campus Center
- Time
- 10:00am to 4:00pm
- Calendar

November 13, 2019

“Shattered Glass, Shattered Lives”

Annual commemoration of Kristallnacht (November 9-10, 1938) and the Holocaust, with prayer and remembrance for victims and survivors of Genocides around the world.
- Location
- Temple Emanu-El, 514 Main Street, Haverhill, MA 01830
- Time
- 7:00pm to 8:00pm
- RSVP
- Calendar

November 8, 2019

The Courage to Remember: The Holocaust 1933-1945

This educational poster series created by the Wiesenthal Center offers compelling, new insights into the Holocaust.
- Location
- McQuade Library
- Time
- All Day
- Calendar

October 29, 2019

“Of Gods and Men” film screening

“Des Hommes et des Dieux” is based on the true story of eight French Christian monks who live in harmony with their Muslim neighbors in Tibhirine, Algeria, from 1993 until their kidnapping in 1996.
- Location
- Crowe Hall 126
- Time
- 7:00pm to 9:00pm
- RSVP
- Calendar

October 2, 2019

Environmental Movie Night: Fire & Flood

Queer Resilience in the Era of Climate Change
- Location
- McQuade Library
- Time
- 7:00pm to 9:00pm
- Calendar

September 26, 2019

Environmental Movie Night: Empowered - Power from the People

Part of the Environmental Movie Series. Documentary telling the story of Tompkins County, NY residents who are meeting their own energy needs through renewable resources. Screenings are held at 7 p.m. in McQuade Auditorium, Lower Level. Snacks provided!
- Location
- McQuade Library
- Time
- 7:00pm
- Calendar

September 24, 2019

Caring for Our Common Home: Ecology Walk for the Campus

Join us in Shalom, Peace, Salaam, Shanti!

Local faith leaders will speak at each stop, with reflections on caring for our campus, each other, and the Earth as we enter a new year together.
- Location
- McQuade Library, followed by an Eco Walk through campus
- Time
- 5:00pm to 7:00pm
- RSVP
- Calendar

May 2, 2019

Goldziher Prize 2019 Award Ceremony

At the National Press Club in Washington, DC
- Location
- National Press Club, 529 14th Street N.W. Washington, D.C., 20045
- Time
- 6:00pm to 8:00pm
- RSVP
- Calendar

April 10, 2019

Religion, Science and Ecology: Shared Responsibility for the Future

A Conference in Support of the Coalition of Massachusetts Religious Leaders and Scientists
- Location
- Cascia Hall and Rogers Center for the Arts
- Time
- 11:30am to 8:00pm
- Calendar

February 26, 2019

Where We Dwell Together: 16th Annual Interfaith Prayer

One of the most powerful commandments in our faiths is “love the stranger.” Welcoming difference in others is intimately connected to loving ourselves, in all our messiness and imperfection and humanity. How do we do the work of loving our neighbor as ourselves?
- Location
- Cascia Hall
- Time
- 7:00pm to 8:00pm
- Calendar

February 6, 2019

5th Annual “Feed Your Neighbor”

Join us again this year to pack 15,000 nutritious meals for the Merrimack Valley Food Bank at a time of year when supplies are low.
- Location
- Sakowich Campus Center, MPR (multi-purpose room)
- Time
- 10:00am to 4:00pm
- Calendar

November 8, 2018

“Shattered Glass, Shattered Lives: Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration”

Annual commemoration of Kristallnacht (November 9-10, 1938) and the Holocaust, with prayer and remembrance for victims and survivors of Genocides around the world.
- Location
- Temple Emanuel, 7 Haggetts Pond Road, Andover
- Time
- 7:00pm
- Calendar

November 2, 2018

The Courage to Remember: The Holocaust 1933-1945

Commemorating Kristallnacht: November 9-10, 1938 - an exhibit at the McQuade Library
- Location
- McQuade Library
- Time
- 7:30am to 5:00pm
- Calendar
The Courage to Remember: The Holocaust 1933-1945

Commemorating Kristallnacht: November 9-10, 1938 - an exhibit at the McQuade Library
- Location
- McQuade Library
- Time
- All Day
- Calendar

October 16, 2018

“Thomas Merton and the Religions: An Interfaith Conference on the 50th Anniversary of His Death”

Celebrate the life and legacy of Father Louis with preeminent scholars.
- Location
- Crowe Hall
- Time
- 8:30am to 5:00pm
- Calendar

September 27, 2018

“Just War and Just Warriors: An Abdelkader Lecture”

Major Matthew H. Peterson, Operations Officer, Marine Barracks Washington, D.C., will draw from various works to include the Bible and the Qu’ran, as well as moral arguments from various other sources, to address the topic of just and unjust wars.
- Location
- Cascia Hall
- Time
- 7:00pm to 8:00pm
- Calendar

April 23, 2018

Feast of Faiths

Celebrate religious and cultural diversity at this student dialogue and award dinner. RSVP required.
- Location
- Merrimack Club, Sakowich Campus Center
- Time
- 5:00pm to 7:00pm
- Calendar

March 20, 2018

21st Annual Model Passover Seder

Rabbi Robert Goldstein presiding
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- Location
- Murray Lounge in the Sakowich Center
- Time
- 2:00pm to 3:30pm
- Calendar

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