October 31, 2010
TOU on CNN
CNN's Nadia Bilchik joins members of the Temple Of Understanding to discuss their role in environmental education.

October 20, 2010 CNN Opinion Piece by 2010 Hollister Honoree
His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, "Green Patriarch"

Saving souls and the planet go together
His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the
world's 300 million Orthodox Christians, is 270th successor of St. Andrew
the apostle who founded the 2,000-year-old church of Constantinople.
His work for environmental protection has earned him the title
"Green Patriarch.

"He was named by Time magazine as one of the world's most influential people and has been honored with the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal. The author of "Encountering the Mystery" and "In the World, Yet Not of the World," he is being honored October 19 by the interfaith organization the Temple of Understanding. Cick to read the article


October 31, 2010 CSRWire
Van Jones on Ecology, Hope and Humans
By CSRwire Contributing Writer Martha Shaw

"This is a sacred room," said Van addressing the eclectic collection of spiritual dignitaries at the Temple of Understanding event. "You are the people who hold the people, through the ceremonies in their lives, the difficulties in their lives. You will lead us through a transition ahead that man has never been through. We have been in an adolescent civilization. But we have to grow up, and people of faith are key to helping people mark that transition. Should spiritual people get involved in politics? Yes, because sometimes the problems get so deep that the walls between the secular and the sacred collapse."

October 19, 2010 CSRWire - Temple of Understanding Holds Historic
Event www.csrwire.com

October 19, 2010 CSRWire Temple-of-Understanding-Celebrates-Its-50th-Anniversary www.csrwire

October 15, 2010 Greenwich Citizen - Temple turns 50, After a half a century, a woman's vision of hope and peace live on. Cick to read the article

Dr. Terrence Roberts’s Perspective on Social Justice and Tolerance in America
On February 11, 2010, the Temple of Understanding hosted an evening with Terrence Roberts, one of the ‘Little Rock Nine,’ the group of African-American students that desegregated Little Rock High School. Dr. Roberts discussed his experiences and observations of America’s moral and social evolution since the years of turbulence that swept the country in the late 1950’s.

Maurice Dubois, award-winning co-anchor of "CBS 2 News This Morning" was the program’s moderator. click to see a brief mention of the program

Held in celebration of Black History Month, the event took place at the Con Edison building (4 Irving Place) near Union Square from (6:00 – 7:30 pm) and featured Maurice Dubois, award-winning co-anchor of "CBS 2 News This Morning" as moderator who interviewed Dr. Roberts and took questions from the audience. A book signing with Dr. Roberts immediately followed. The books featured include: Lessons from Little Rock, Dr. Roberts’s recently published memoirs, which offer a thoughtfully nuanced look at this important chapter in the annals of American Civil Rights History. From the publisher: “Told with stark honesty and exhilarating detail, Roberts’s intimate memoir reminds us that the Little Rock desegregation crisis happened to real people."

Dr. Roberts discussed his recently published book of essays, Simple, Not Easy: Reflections on Community, Social Responsibility, and Tolerance. Essay topics include: education, leadership, racial integration in schools and neighborhoods and, building community. Reviews include Alan Caruba, National Book Critics Circle Member ‘...well worth reading.’

The Temple of Understanding is a leader in educating youth and adults cross culturally and inter-religiously in order to alleviate intolerance, social injustice and violence between culturally, religiously and ethnically diverse populations. Founded in 1960 by Juliet Hollister, with the support of Eleanor Roosevelt and an international group of leaders from business, politics, religion and academia, the ToU is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit and NGO in Consultative Status with the United Nations.

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