CRES Multifaith Resources - Community Resources for Exploring Spirituality - Center for Religious Experience and Study

08.07.04 .On the web since.1997. Site Map

Email: staff@cres.org—mailing address: Box 45414, Kansas City, MO 64171 — corporate address: Box 4165, Overland Park, KS 66204
We bring study and experience together --- Corporate name: World Faiths Center for Religious Experience and Study, Inc

MOST RECENT NEWS: click on photo
Italian Imam and Mosque President visit us

BACK: Josef Walker, Ahmed El-Sherif, Zarrieff Osman, the Rev Stan Runnels (our host at St Paul's Episcopal Church), Adam Cambier. FRONT: Aasim Baheyadeen, Imam Wagih Saad Hassan Hassan, the Rev Vern Barnet, DMn, President El Hassan Sadiq. Thanks, KC Intn'l Vistors Council.

Jihad for Love documentary about gay Muslims. Panel following the movie at the Tivoli with Christian Josef Walker, Muslim Ahmed El-Sherif, and Jew Lynn Barnett, moderated by Vern Barnet

UPCOMING

(see our full calendar)

July 9: Vital Conversations
July 20: Art and Spirituality

Q U I C K L I N K S

A chart of our theory.

Speaking, weddings,
other services

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Make a contribution,
support interfaith work,
and receive our monthly
Many Paths,
a 12-page color journal
with informative essays,
news of local interfaith activities,
a calendar of coming events,
and many other features.

JOIN US TO PROMOTE
INTERFAITH UNDERSTANDING

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We welcome
your participation
and financial support.

At the Pluralism Project, we consider Kansas City to be truly at the forefront of interfaith relations. This is — in no small part — due to the tireless efforts of Vern Barnet, whose work and writings have been an inspiration to all of us at the Pluralism Project.

—Ellie Pierce, principal researcher for The Pluralism Project at Harvard University

COPYRIGHT 2005, Vern Barnet at CRES, Box 4165, Overland Park, KS 66204.
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HOW YOU CAN JOIN
IN FURTHERING INTERFAITH UNDERSTANDING

CRES may be the most connected interfaith effort in Kansas City, and the only one wedding academic competence with practical activities, but many groups are involved one way or another in promoting interfaith understanding. An increasing number of organizations bring interfaith awareness to their work. For a list, please see our report, KC Interfaith Opportunities, and let us know about the groups we missed.

And you as an individual, you can encourage America’s tradition of pluralism by

    * supporting these organizations,
    * writing newspapers,
    * phoning in on talk shows,
    * arranging CRES programs for your groups
    * arranging speakers from many faiths for your groups

and specifically, working through CRES, you can

   * use our INTERFAITH PASSPORT to visit various religious groups and build relationships
    * write report on events for Many Paths and our website
    * represent CRES at meetings
    * help to prepare Many Paths for mailing
    * research (such as helping us to compile information about our religious pluralism in the area, such as our work on Islam and on Buddhism
    * volunteer to assist with CRES workshops, etc
    * provide your special skills and talents, such as providing music for one of our programs, hosting a fund-raiser in your home to acquaint friends with CRES and Many Paths, assist with our web site, tape CRES appearances, etc.
    * contribute your own creativity through CRES
    * support the work with a financial contribution to CRES

contact staff@cres.org, Box 45414, Kansas City, MO 64171

Donor Information

CRES is a 501(c)(3) charity as determined by the IRS in its 1985 July 17 letter. It is a Kansas not-for-profit also registered in Missouri. It is operated by a Board of Directors and led by the Rev Vern Barnet, DMin and a volunteer staff.

CRES, with its scholarly capacities and practical networking, has been central to the development of interfaith work in Kansas City and has been nationally recognized by CBS-TV, Harvard University's Pluralism Project, and in other ways.

Because of our professional volunteer staff, your gift to CRES provides an enormous "bang for the buck."

Please draw your check to
CRES
Box 45414
Kansas City, MO 64171.

   For a personal call,
   phone or write
   Vern Barnet,
   913.649.5114
   vern@cres.org

If you are not already on our mailing list, you will received Many Paths regularly with our thanks.

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