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[/caption]Carol Forsloff - Want to find religious harmony? Look no further than Shreveport, Louisiana annually. Here's where one finds folks of all faiths expressing their common purpose, which is to bring faith to people's lives.
This year's event was another example of people finding ways to embrace that common purpose. The groups assembled spoke of tolerance, of embracing differences in ways to promote understanding. They talked of how to bring reconciliation in even better ways, to people who see animosities and differences as fostering separation, as opposed to the harmony among people that faith is supposed to bring.
A series of workshops annually helps to facilitate understanding. This year the principal theme had to do with communication and all the ways religions can bring harmony to the whole of a community by expressing common purpose and understanding.
Mormons, Muslims, Eckists, members of the Baha'i Faith, Wiccans, Baptists, Presbyterians, Unitarian Universalists and others in both mainstream and New Age religious groups came together again this year to proudly proclaim that peace comes from understanding one another and finding divine purpose in all we do.
