9/11 Conversations: 21 Years Later
9/11 Conversations: 21 Years Later
The Atlantic Institute would like to thank all that joined us in Greenville for our "Conversations 21 Years Later" Dialogue Dinner. It was a great experience to sit in a room of people from many faith backgrounds and listen and learn what life was like for us 21 years ago.
The stores and shares we were able to share with those that were younger in the room. The ways that some of us stood up and reacted were inspiring to hear. We are so glad we took this opportunity to sit and reflect on this immense tragedy.
Fund-raising event
Fundraiser for First Responders
The Atlantic Institute is seeking to rally our community for a very important fund-raising event!
As the COVID cases continue to rise - Hospital staff, first responders, and medical personnel are having to put their lives at risk. As medical facilities across the country are reaching and going beyond capacity, these workers are being pushed to their limits. We believe that at the very least they need a break and a sign of appreciation from the communities they serve.
Lets once again provide supplies and snacks to these vital workers to energize them and let them know the community loves them and their efforts. Back in April/May we were able to donate over 600 items to our First Responders! Let's do it again! This time we are involving all of you!!
We will be accepting funds through the 31st of this month. Donations will be accepted at either our website at (donation link?) or at PO Box 26535, Greenville, SC 29616.
Even the smallest gesture will go a long way, so please help us show our over-worked medical personnel that we care.
The Atlantic Institute is a 501-c3 nonprofit organization. Proceeds will go toward medical staff and all donations are tax deductible. For more information go to www.atlanticinstitutesc.org
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Family Game Night
Family Game Nights
The Atlantic Institute is proud to announce Family Game Nights! We'll be playing Escape Room style puzzle games that are designed to get people of different backgrounds working together for a common goal. Sign Up below for our next game night on October 28th at 7pm! More dates will be announced soon so stay tuned.
These games are for all ages and game nights are free of charge! All games hosted over Zoom so a microphone is required.
VIRTUAL COFFEE NIGHT SERIES
VIRTUAL COFFEE NIGHT SERIES
We have thoroughly enjoyed all of the dialogue discussions during this social distancing time. It's great to be able to expand the audience we reach to those in different states. We have enjoyed partnering with the Rumi Forum out of DC as well.
Dr Peter Cohen's discussion on Facing the Covid-19 Challenge with Empathy and Compassion and Dr Epsosito's United in Covid-19: Rediscovering Pluralism in the Face of a Shared Threat, were wonderful thought provoking discussions as well as a great time for all of us to connect.
We look forward to continuing the discussions....
Faith in American Public Life
Date And Time
April 15, 2020 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
About the Speaker
Melissa Rogers is a nationally known expert on religion in American public life. Her areas of expertise include the United States Constitution’s religious liberty guarantees and the interplay of religion, law, policy, and politics. Rogers currently serves as Visiting Professor at Wake Forest University School of Divinity and as a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
The Humanity of Muhammad: A Christian View
Date And Time
April 17, 2020 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
About the Speaker
Dr. Craig Considine is a scholar, professor, global speaker, media contributor, & public intellectual based at the Department of Sociology at Rice University. He is the author of many books & articles. Dr. Considine's opinions have been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, BBC, CBS News, Fox News, MSNBC, Newsweek, & Al Jazeera. He has been invited to speak at some of the leading international organizations & universities in the world. Dr. Considine is visible on social media. He holds a PhD from Trinity College (University of Dublin), MSc from Royal Holloway (University of London), & BA from American University in Washington, DC. Dr. Considine is a U.S. Catholic of Irish and Italian descent.
Beach Sweep/River Sweep
Beach/River Sweep
Beach Sweep/River Sweep is South Carolina’s largest one-day volunteer waterway cleanup event. Every 3rd Saturday in September since 1988, thousands of South Carolinians clear beaches, rivers, lakes, marshes, and swamps of aquatic debris
Saturday we joined S.C. Sea Grant Consortium on Folly Beach. Jennifer was Site Captain for is amazing volunteer opportunity
From Local to Global
From Local to Global
Peaceful coexistence: Cross-continental perspectives from South Africa and South Carolina
Date: March 27th at 12pm EST / 7PM SAST
We sincerely thank our partner Turquoise Harmony Institute in South Africa for coordinating a fascinating call on our "From Local to Global Series" The conversation we had on Peaceful Coexistence and learning from each other about the work all of us are doing was so refreshing that we hope this is just the beginning of some great international discussions. There was so much learned about each other in our breakout rooms that truly left us all wanting more.
Thank you to all that participated.
SPEAKERS
Dr. Adrian Bird has lived and worked in several diverse international countries, including Zimbabwe, India, the UK and the USA
Adrian currently works at Union Presbyterian Seminary, teaching courses in History, and Interfaith Relations, and served for three years as Chair of Interfaith Partners of South Carolina, working to build bridges of understanding with partners across the State.
Adrian has many published chapters and articles, and is the author of "M.M. Thomas and Dalit Theology”.
Najma Khota
Former Broadcast journalist Najma Khota pioneered woman's voices on radio. She is a counselling therapist and an integrative health practitioner. Najma practiced as a trauma counsellor at a private hospital.
She is currently the General Manager for the S&S global education initiative. She has served on the board of several community organizations. Najma is driven by her passion for social justice and equal rights.
Catherine Fleming Bruce
Catherine Fleming Bruce heads Tnovsa Global Commons, which focuses on preservation and culture. She chairs the newly formed National Coalition Delegation, a group of former delegates from around the US and abroad elected to the 2020 Democratic National Convention.The organization will support civic engagement on public policy, democratic institutions, and the US constitution.
Catherine is the author of ‘The Sustainers: Being, Building and Doing Good through Activism in the Sacred Spaces of Civil Rights, Human Rights and Social Movements. In 2017, she became the first Black author to win the University of Mary Washington Historic Preservation Book Prize, awarded by their Center for Historic Preservation.
Bruce and her work have appeared in US News and World Report, National Geographic Traveler Magazine, The Post and Courier (SC) and South Carolina Public Radio.
Thembisa Fakude
Fellow at Al Sharq Forum, Istanbul Turkey, Deputy Chairperson Common Action Forum, Madrid Spain. Columnist Middle East Monitor London, United Kingdom. Member of the Board Mail and Guardian, Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Pillowcase Project
The Atlantic Institute is proud to report that Sweet Dreams and Prayers For You was an incredible success! For this event, we joined forces with some of the Upstate's finest faith and interfaith communities to gather items that would make a positive impact on the lives of children entering the foster system. We are happy to say that 105 pillow cases stuffed with toys, hygiene items, clothes, blankets, and other essentials were decorated with love and care by our amazing volunteers! We were absolutely overwhelmed by the amount of goods raised by our partnering communities and cannot express our gratitude enough to those that helped make this vital program a success.
While none of this would have been possible without the hard work and dedication of Rund Abdelnabi and AI's own Christina Bell, we also recognize all the incredible work done by Holy Cross Episcopal, Upstate International, The Riley Institute, the Sikh Society of South Carolina, Congregation Beth Israel, Fostering Great Ideas, Temple of Israel, and Emmanuel Church of Christ. We are truly blessed to have truly empathetic people willing to help children in need.
We would like to give a special thanks to David White from Fostering Great Ideas for leading us all through the "Limbo" exercise which gave us all a glimpse of what it is like entering the foster system. This exercise gave us a good idea of why the items we collected and the sense of owning something that is truly your own is so important to kids facing the daunting foster care system.
We are excited to continue to make positive impacts to the foster system. Keep an eye on our website and Facebook for more opportunities!
Inspire joy and optimism in the coming year!
Inspire joy and optimism in the coming year!
We are partnering with South Carolina Interfaith Power and Light to put together a fun event you may be interested in.
We’ve all had a rough year and heading into 2021 we want to promote good vibes and a hopeful outlook. We’re seeking short videos of prayers, testimonials, hopeful messages or anything else that would inspire joy and optimism in the coming year. The interns at SCIPL will string the videos together and broadcast them on a loop on New Year’s Eve. We’ll help spread the link far and wide so as many people can see this message of peace, prosperity and good fortune. If you or anyone you know would like to provide a short video of this nature please record yourself, in no more than 30 seconds of time and email this to scipl@sustainingway.com so they can get this in the video feed loop by Dec 18th Thank you so much, here’s to a brighter and more hopeful 2021.
My Neighbors Voice
We'd like to thank My Neighbors Voice for partnering with us on January 14th 2021 on a joint virtual event. We appreciate your partnership during these times of COVID. Being able to sit and discuss our own thoughts in a safe place during a time when there is limited one on one contact was very enriching.
Racial Reconciliation: Past and Present, Black and White
Racial Reconciliation: Past and Present, Black and White
August 27th at 7pm
Join us for a virtual conversation with Professor Inabinet and Professor O'Neill that explores the role of history, historical memory and historical memorialization in America's current protests against racism and police violence against the black community
Steve O’Neill, a professor of history at Furman, studies the American South, South Carolina history, and the African-American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He has worked in museum and exhibit design and is interested in how ordinary southerners make sense of their past. In 2014-2015, he co-chaired Furman’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of desegregation at the university. In 2017-2018 served on Furman’s Task Force on Slavery and Justice and led the team that wrote the history of Furman and slavery. In 2016, he received Furman’s first Meritorious Diversity & Inclusion Award for Faculty. He is the author of “Memory, History, and the Desegregation of Greenville, South Carolina” published in Toward 'The Meeting of the Waters’: Currents in the History of the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina during the Twentieth Century, (University of South Carolina Press, 2009) and “What We Remember, What We Forget: Mythmaking and Civil Rights History in South Carolina” published in Historians in Service of a Better South: Essays in Honor of Paul Gaston (New South Books, 2017). In his spare time, he enjoys bicycling and kayaking.
Brandon Inabinet, an associate professor of communication studies at Furman, studies rhetoric and public address, especially focused on intergenerational issues like slavery and climate. He chaired the 2018 Task Force on Slavery & Justice at Furman. His works include over a dozen book chapters and journal articles on Southern rhetoric, including proslavery voices, honor cultures, and non-white voices that constitute the South. A forthcoming edited volume Reconstructing the South (University of Mississippi Press) will showcase that work with similar projects across the fields of rhetoric and communication studies. On campus, Inabinet mentors independent studies and research on related topics and advises the TEDxFurmanU group and the Debate Society. For fun, he bikes and kayaks at a much slower pace than Dr. O’Neill.