| Here & now 03/31/2001 Pat Robertson to visit Dallas for banquet
The Rev. Pat Robertson, who started the Christian Broadcasting Network and Christian Coalition, will be in Dallas next weekend for Reconciliation Outreach's annual celebration banquet. Mr. Robertson, host of The 700 Club and a former presidential candidate, will be keynote speaker for the event at 7 p.m. April 7 at the Fairmont Hotel, 1717 N. Akard St. The Rev. Dorothy Moore started Reconciliation Outreach in the mid-1980s. The Christian ministry provides housing, job training, transportation, child care, tutoring and other basic services to homeless families and individuals in the inner-city. Banquet tickets are $50 and reservations are required; call Doris Hearn or Jackie Lucas at 214-821-9192.
Hindus to honor Rama with 24-hour reading
Area Hindus will gather next week to celebrate Ramnavami, which marks the birth of Lord Rama, seventh incarnation of the god Vishnu. His story is told in the Ramayana, one of India's two great epics, and the celebrations include a nonstop community reading of the book. This year the holiday falls on Monday and believers will gather at the D/FW Hindu Temple, 1605 N. Britain Road, Irving, for puja at 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., followed by bhajans. A 24-hour Ramayana reading will start at 9 a.m. April 7. Ramnavami celebrations will continue from 10 a.m. to noon April 8. Call the temple at 972-445-3111.
Film, discussion to close nonviolence season
A special showing of highlights from a PBS series on nonviolence and a discussion with the show's producers and others will be next week to close this year's Season for Nonviolence. The observance is a 64-day period launched in 1998 by Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. The film, A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict, and discussion will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Cathedral of Hope, 5910 Cedar Springs Road. Participants will include producers Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall, Imam Nasir Ahmed of the Dallas Masjid of Al-Islam and the Rev. Petra Weldes of Center for Spiritual Living.An offering will be collected to help seed events for next year's observance. Call 972-866-9988.
Workshop to tackle future of churches
Church leaders from several universities and other groups will lead a one-day workshop next weekend that's sponsored by the Center for Christian Education in Irving. "Choices That Will Shape Our Future" is the topic of Center Forum 2001 that starts at 9 a.m. April 7 at the Holiday Inn Select DFW Airport North, 4441 Highway 114 in Irving. The annual open discussion will include speakers from Lipscomb, Lubbock Christian and Harding universities and from the center. Registration is $40; call 1-888-295-0072 or visit www.center1.org.
SW Baptist seminary OKs Islamic degree
Trustees at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth have approved the creation of a master of arts degree in Islamic studies. The two-year degree, approved during the trustees' biannual meeting this month, will give students more effective skills for reaching and making Christian disciples of people with an Islamic background, school administrators say. David Crutchley, dean of the school of theology, said candidates can "become equipped for meaningful and relevant missions in the challenging world of Islam." Southwestern's Islamic studies program is one of only three offered by seminaries in the United States.
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