Your congratulations are quite special knowing you share the journey with other women involved in interfaith work.

Thank you also for your warm invitation to all to visit the East Bay Meditation Center, a wonderful resource to those invested in social justice. I hope many accept your heartfelt invitation into conversation, especially those of color and LGBTQI communities. The East Bay Medition Center is indeed transcending boundaries bringing people together to examine social and justice-centered issues.

EBMC is a community-based organization we can all learn from. Betsy Wiggins, Co-Founder, Women Transcending Boundaries

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As Co-Founder of SARAH (Spiritual and Religious Alliance for Hope, based in Organge County), and participant in Diana Eck's symposium: "Women's Interfaith Initiatives Post 9/11," sponsored by the Harvard Pluralism Project, your thoughts about the word of women resonant profoundly with those of us in WTB. SARAH and WTB are indeed, on an empowering journey, and it is terrifically affirming to know we are on this journey together.

Thank you too for your kind words about the model WTB has been developing over our years of development that you have found helpful as SARAH has blossomed so beautifully. I invite those interested to go to sarah4hope.org for more information about this amazing group and their myriad interfaith ac

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My name is Mushim, not Mashim.

Thank you.

Mushim

Thank you again for your support of WTB as well as your generous invitation to come and visit the East Bay Meditation Center. Would very much like to do that and may be able to extend our time to do so.

Bets

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Interfaith dialogue compels us to search deep within ourselves; to a place where a higher consciouness exist. A spiritual place which gently nudges us to listen to one another without judgement and with compassion and

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Those of us in WTB have learned much from you and the sisters in WISDOM as well. I encourage readers to go to your website: www.interfaithwisdom.org to see the scope of your initiatives. Messages from your listserv are a continuing inspiration to us about projects we can do not just in WTB, but with other community organizations as well in Syracuse.

I hope we have a long continuing relationship and that someday we might imagine a project WISDOM, SARAH and WTB will be able to participate in together.

Thanks for your support!

Betsy Wiggins

My first WTB meeting was a revelation. Here was a diverse group of women who were warm and welcoming. They were eager to share their faith journeys, but did not try to promote their own paths as better. Believers in Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Baha'i, Wicca, and Hinduism joyfully have illustrated the role of

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Thank you so much for how honestly you described your thoughts about your experince with WTB. Initially, I know you came to a meeting with very little information years ago and chose to get involved in service in WTB.

For 4 now you have held the position of WTB Secretary and have helped us keep the record of WTB meetings and events that can be found at www.wtb.org. which we consider essential documentation of where we started, what we have done, and imagining where WTB goes on from here, especially in celebration of our new 501 (c) (3) status.

You have a very strong voice in WTB. Your years in education keep us focused on our missions, and clean up our meeting notes.

More than the essential work you give to

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It is a joy to be in the company of women who respect and appreciate each other for who they are inside. Our world has been given a priceless gift called WTB.

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We have been "meeting in circle" here in Santa Barbara since the late 1990's -- mostly through the "Conscious Evolution" community inspired by Barbara Marx Hubbard. These meetings have been cross-fertilized by relationships with these new women's movement organizations -- and for me, the idea of "resonance" began to form. Today, it seems to me that the core of our common human understanding is best known and experienced at that level that is indeed "beyond words" (and the divi

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You are a great gift to WTB. You brought your experience in meeting planning to make our March International Dinner a great success. Your service work with InterFaith Works' Center for New Americans has been inspiring, not just to new refugees in our community, but to everyone involved in this process.

I applaud all the WTB women who have participated in the "Knitting-Together" group that has been meeting weekly at the Center for New Americans for about three years. Women who are new to this country have bonded, mentored by volunteers from Women Transcending Boundaries and Rapha. Many refugees have spent years in camps and have experienced unspeakable hardships. This weekly respite offers them a time to laugh and le

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How beautifully you describe what so many of us have experienced in the sisterhood of Women Transcending Boundaries! We have indeed found many women looking for some way to make personal connections with those of other faiths. As you know it has been quite the journey, and continues to make WTB a safe place for women of all faiths to speak without fear of being judged and valued for her contribution to our knowledge. We are so grateful that Jennifer Crittendon continues to record all our meeting notes so that they are accessible at www.wtb.org for those interested at looking at the scope of topics we have discussed since 2001.

I loved your description of becoming involved in WTB, "you cooked and enjoyed meals with sisters

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I received your post and wonder if you could send it to my email address: bwiggins@twcny.rr.com so that I can forward it on to the WTB Council. I find it very difficult to respond with this set up because the whole post is not on the screen. if anyone has posted since the last post, my response to the post is merely sequential and not listed after the post. I can't get the whole thing to print out completely. Can this be changed?

I'm sure this is the last thing you want to deal with 2 weeks out, so if it is a bother I will just hand write it out, retype it and send it to the Council.

I do appreciate your thoughts and would like to convey them to the Council before the NAIN meeting.

Hope you are having a good holi

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Yes, I will be very glad to send the message to your email address. I agree that this format can be a little awkward -- but I wonder if you have tried the "workshop blog" link (in the top section of links). That might be a little easier and more intuitive.

http://nain.org/2008/blog.cfm

Since I am the programmer that built this contraption -- maybe I will add a feature there that allows a respondent to optionally insert the message to which they are replying -- making the entire thing a little more like a forum or email discussion list. Plus, maybe a couple of other things -- like a way for an author to edit their own post, plus view it in a print format, plus show the f

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29oLX2M7svE

Monthly Conversations Bringing Women of Faith Together after 9/11
http://youtube.com/watch?v=a93jGQY5xM0

International Dinners
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gWwiZ7HciAU

Sharing hospitality at the Center for New Americans
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wvQTw6XOXBQ

thank you so much for posting the videos. You are a talented and compassionate woman and WTB is blessed with your presence and voice. I know you worked hard to get them ready for NAIN and for our up coming Sept events. I am looking forward to working closely with you on developing videos for our outreach projects.

These videos will be a wonderful resource for Betsy at the conference.

Danya Wellmon

I have shown these music videos to a lot of people. I get so tickled when they start 'jiviing w/the music. I had the occasion to show some of them to Jill Carroll who was in Syracuse from Houston talking about the Amazing Faiths Dinner Dialogue Project (www.amazingfaithsproject.org). She is deeply involved in interfaith work and said (paraphrasing), "This rocks! This is exactly what is needed in the interfaith community. Many people think of interfaith work as serious, stodgy stuff. These WTB videos show the dynamism of interfaith work."

I agree. It's one thing to present a talk about the work of WTB, but your videos capture the joy and fun we have had over the years. I hope the folks at NAIN can better understand

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