Rumi Forum Podcast

Rumi Forum Podcast


Latest Episodes

4th Interfaith Leadership Forum: Interfaith Engagement with the Environmental Crisis
June 06, 2023

Rumi Forum, Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington, and Washington Theological Consortium presented the 4th Interfaith Leadership Forum: Interfaith Engagement with the Environmental Crisis on

In-Person Book Talk: “Profiles in Peace”
May 24, 2023

This new book traces the lives of Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs in Israel and Palestine who have dedicated their lives to building peaceful relations among the two peoples and between individual

In-Person Book Talk: “Between Thought & Action”
October 29, 2022

This in-person book talk by Dr. Ori Z. Soltes was a discussion on Between Thought & Action, Fethullah Gulen`s intellectual biography of thoughts, words, and actions including interviews with Hizmet

In-Person Book Talk: "Hearts & Minds: Hizmet Schools and Interethnic Relations"
September 29, 2022

Dr. Parrillo and Dr. Ansari present a cross-cultural study of Hizmet schools in seven countries of varying histories and ethnic compositions. Some are fairly homogeneous, while others are longstanding

In-Person Book Talk: “I Never Thought of It That Way”
March 14, 2022

We think we have the answers, but we need to be asking a lot more questions. Partisanship is up, trust is down, and our social media feeds make us sure were right and everyone else is ignorant (or wo

3rd Interfaith Leadership Forum: "Building Interfaith Partnerships Beyond Racism and Religious Nationalism"
February 24, 2022

Religious nationalism is on the rise worldwide. In the U.S., it has primarily taken the form of White Christian Nationalism: the affiliation of being White and Christian with belonging and mattering i

Panel Discussion: “Modern Muslim and Jewish Thinkers Who Have Inspired Us”
February 09, 2022

While anti-Semites and Islamophobes often speak as if our faiths have been frozen in ice (and primitive thinking) for many centuries, the fact is that Jews and Muslims belong to living, breathing, sti

Panel Discussion: ”How Do We Deal With Covid, Social Injustice, and Polarization?”
February 04, 2022

Rumi Forum, Prince Georges County Office of Human Rights, and Prince Georges County Memorial Library System presented a virtual panel discussion on How Do We Deal With Covid, Social Injustice, and

In-Person Book Talk: “People of the Book”
December 09, 2021

Prophet Muhammad`s Encounters with Christians

In-Person Book Talk: “God`s Diplomats”
October 29, 2021

Using inside sources and extensive field reporting about the secretive, high-stakes world ofinternational diplomacy, Vatican reporter Victor Gaetan takes readers to theHoly Seeto explicatePope Fra