Grand Valley students and West Michigan community members will create an open interfaith dialogue during the intercultural event, “Hummus Not Hate: Dialogue Not Debate.”
The event will bring together students and community members of different faiths and non-faiths to have conversations about interfaith concepts and practices. Students will rotate through round table discussions facilitated by student leaders representing their various traditions.
“Hummus Not Hate: Dialogue Not Debate”
March 18 from 2-4
p.m.
Mary Idema Pew Library, Multipurpose Room, Allendale Campus
Sam Lampe, Kaufman Interfaith Institute graduate intern and one of the organizers of the event, said “Hummus Not Hate” aims to create an opportunity for participants to explore their leadership ideologies through the lens of different religious and philosophical traditions.
“I encourage students to engage in interfaith dialogue because it supplies a language that will increase their cultural sensitivity of various traditions,” Lampe said. “This event is an example of creating intentional space of meaningful dialogue that will ultimately foster a more inclusive and accepting campus community.”
This event is free and open to the public.
“Hummus Not Hate” is being hosted by Grand Valley’s Kaufman Interfaith Institute, the Laker Traditions Team and Better Together, as part of the Grand Valley Intercultural Festival March 15-21. The annual festival recognizes that culture represents a spectrum of traits in people that are not only confined to ethnicity.
For more information about Hummus Not Hate, contact Katie Gordon, Kaufman Interfaith Institute program manager at (616) 331-5702 or [email protected].
For more information about the Grand Valley Intercultural Festival, visit www.gvsu.edu/if.
