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Fish Interfaith Center to mark anniversary with celebration and lecturer Eboo Patel

Be sure to save two November dates and join in the festivities as Chapman University’s Fish Interfaith Center officially marks its 10th anniversary

Be sure to save two November dates and join in the festivities as Chapman University’s Fish Interfaith Center officially marks its 10th anniversary. On Monday, Nov. 3, at 5:30 p.m. the center will host an Interfaith 10-Year Anniversary Celebration. And on Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 7:30 p.m. it will welcome Eboo Patel, founder and president of the national Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), as a guest speaker.

Eboo Patel
Eboo Patel
  • The anniversary observance will be held at the center and feature a festive interfaith celebration with performances by Orange County religious organizations and Chapman students.
  • Patel’s talk on the topic “Sacred Ground: Why Religious and Non-Religious Diversity Matters in the 21st Century” will be held in Memorial Hall.

Named by US News & World Report as one of America’s Best Leaders of 2009, Patel is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation, which won the Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion. He also authored Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America, and the forthcoming book Interfaith Leadership: A Primer.

Patel is a regular contributor to the Washington Post, USA Today, Huffington Post, NPR and CNN. He served on President Obama’s inaugural Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship.

Both events are free to attend. For more information, please visit the Fish Interfaith Center website.

Dawn Bonker

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