Interfaith Tuesday Table Talks: Unpacking Spiritual Heritage and Exploring Spiritual Legacy
Schedule
Tue Sep 30 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Dominican Center Marywood at Aquinas College | Grand Rapids, MI
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“Faith traditions hold historical, familial, geographic, and spiritual lineages.What are the practices being handed down to others?
Who are the teachers, elders, and prophets who have held those practices?
Lineage is something to be carried from the past to now and on to future generations.
The now becomes an intermediary between what has been and what will be.”
Sharing Spiritual Heritage, A Report from The Fetzer Institute
If we consider our spiritual selves through a genealogical lens, we might see aspects of spirituality–such as beliefs, practices, community, and culture–as inherited traits passed down from generations past creating a spiritual heritage. Regardless of whether we identify with the traditions of our parents and grandparents, we are still influenced by the families, cultures, geographies, and histories that have come before us. In turn, we, too, will pass on a rich amalgamation of identity or faith–a spiritual legacy–that will continue to form and inform future generations of dynamic and beautiful humans.
Join us for a two-part Interfaith Tuesday Table Talk, where we will lean into this conversation of Unpacking Spiritual Heritage and Exploring Spiritual Legacy. We will be hearing from intergenerational multifaith voices and sharing our own over a delicious dinner at Dominican Center Marywood.
Liz English, Moderator
Liz English is the Campus Program Manager for the Kaufman Interfaith Institute located at Grand Valley State University. She comes to interfaith work driven by an unrelenting curiosity about religious and spiritual cultures, experiences, and identities – including her own – and their role in the pursuit of social justice. She earned her MA in Critical Theory & Religion from the University of Denver where she focused on the intersections of religion and race, class, gender, and ethnicity in a global context.
Barbara Hansen, OP, Panelist
Jasmine Mand, Panelist
Junior at Forest Hills Eastern, Kaufman Interfaith Leadership Scholar
Joshua Polanski, Panelist
Director of Engagement, Interfaith Photovoice
Zahabia Ahmed-Usmani, Panelist
Youth Program Manager, Kaufman Interfaith Institute
Dates
Part I: May 13, 2025
Part II: September 30, 2025
6:00 pm–8:30 pm EST
Cost
Sign up for one part $25, Students $10
Sign up for both $40, Students $15
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Where is it happening?
Dominican Center Marywood at Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
