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Interfaith Summit on Happiness

A gift for the holidays: The Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University has put several recordings of presentations from the Interfaith Summit on Happiness up at YouTube.

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Performances of religion

Given some of the discussions at the annual meeting, this video might be of interest to several people. It was produced on an artist’s commission funded by Pavilion.

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Business meeting agenda

Here is the agenda for Tuesday afternoon’s business meeting, which will take place towards the second half of Plenary #6 (click on the links to see the documents): I. Flowing Forward: generating possibilities from earlier Tuesday sessions II. Review and … Continue reading

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And… we're off!

The meeting started with a short video meditation (which we’ll post later, when we have time to upload the whole thing). Our first plenary was TVbyGirls, represented by Rebecca Bullen, Molly Nemer, and Rachel Quednau. They showed clips of their … Continue reading

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Preparing for Denver

One fun way to begin to get ready for our meeting in Denver might be to watch some digital short stories created by local residents. You could meet Carlos Fresquez, for example: or listen to Tim Roessler tell a story … Continue reading

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Nominations slate

These are the candidates being proposed by the Nominations Committee. If you would like to nominate another person for any of the positions, please ascertain his/her willingness to serve and then contact Maureen O’Brien at obrien at duq dot edu … Continue reading

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Calling all task force chairs

This is a general “shout out” to anyone who’s been involved with chairing a task force. We’re trying to make sure we have rooms for each task force that’s continuing to meet, but we’re not sure we’ve heard from all … Continue reading

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2009 Business Meeting Minutes

The PDF version of the 2009 Business Meeting minutes is now available. Remember that these are last year’s minutes, and we’ll post the minutes from the business meeting this year once we have them.

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Preparing for Denver

As we get ready to journey out to Denver, here’s a wonderful set of short digital stories that people involved with the Center for Digital Storytelling have created. They’re a great way to help us to contextualize where we’ll be.

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Trying to build an online bookstore

Given how difficult it is to get publishers to our meeting, we have tried to do onsite bookstores in the past. Even that is challenging, so this year we’re trying something different. We’ve asked publishers to send us one copy … Continue reading

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