Subscribe to RSS feedThe Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice (ICPJ) is pleased to offer the following presentation lineup, a series of workshops and presentations offered free of charge to area congregations, classes, religious education groups, and other groups and organizations. Most presentations are free of charge, and we can customize a workshop to meet the needs of your community.
To schedule a workshop, or for more information, please contact ICPJ by phone at 734-663-1870, by email at info@icpj.net, or by mail at 730 Tappan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48104.
Call to Faith, Call to Justice
What do different faith traditions say about social justice? More importantly, what do they do about social justice? How can you and your faith community put your values into action to promote a more just and peaceful world? (30 minutes to 1 hour)
Caring for the least of these: Health Care Reform and Faith Values
How do our faith values speak to the issue of health care reform? What are our personal interests in fixing the health care system in Michigan? And most of all, what can we do? This workshop explores how people of faith can address one of the most pressing issues facing our communities and our families (30 minutes to 1 hour)
Hunger in a World of Plenty
This one-hour workshop is mostly group activity. Participants will receive a hands-on experience of the disparity of the food economy and spend time in open discussion reflecting on their experience. Participants will leave with information on how to take action in response to the poverty of food distribution in our world. (1 hour)
Do You Know Enough to Enlist?
Geared toward high school students, this workshop provides alternative perspectives to what young people hear from military recruiters. It encourages participants to think fully about their decision before signing up for the armed forces. (30 minutes to 1 hour)
Welfare Simulations
This is a highly interactive, 2.5 to 3 hour workshop. Participants will receive identities in the “State of Poverty,” and spend four 15-minute ‘weeks’ living on welfare. They will experience some of the challenges and hurdles of poverty first hand. (There is a fee for this workshop. Please call 734-663-1870 or email gracek@icpj.net for details.)
Some Good News for Change
As peace and justice advocates, we look at problems and propose ways to address them. Sometimes we spend so much time looking at the problems we fail to see what is going well in the world and what advances we are making. This workshop celebrates progress in the work for justice and peace and explores what we can learn from these successes. (30 minutes to 1 hour)
Nuclear Weapons: Security or Idolatry?
This workshop explores religious and secular responses to the danger of nuclear weapons and the need for global solutions to this global problem. (30 minutes to 1 hour)
Guns and Greed in Latin America: The U.S. Army School of the Americas (WHINSEC)
This presentation explores the history of the U.S. Army School of the Americas. The School’s graduates have a disturbing record of human rights abuses throughout Latin America, leading some to consider it a school of terrorists on our own soil. The presentation also explores how people of faith and people of conscience are standing up and saying “No!” to the School of the Americas and “Yes!” to a foreign policy based on democracy, self-determination, and human rights. (30 minutes to 1 hour)
Globalization for Beginners
What do low clothing prices, trash shipments from Canada, and impoverished coffee farmers have in common? This workshop explores some of the issues raised by economic globalization and presents some ways that people of faith can promote economic justice and sustainable globalization. (1 hour)
Religious Values and Budget Priorities
When you follow the money, what does it show about our values and priorities as a nation? In this workshop participants explore how their budget priorities compare to the Federal Budget, as well as what other faith leaders are saying about our federal spending. (30 minutes to 1 hour)