Blog | Wyoming Interfaith

4 days ago
3 min

Diversity or Pluralism: What’s the difference? And why does it matter? - Carl Carmichael

This is the first of a series of my weekly messages (as my turn to write comes along) to explore the content of a book given to me by our...

Jul 27
3 min

GOD ALONE - by Rev. Dr. Sally Palmer

I have counseled couples who lost their child—by cancer, accident, suicide. All I know and feel is that “This is the greatest grief of al...

Jul 14
4 min

How Does Your Faith Move You?

Each of our faith traditions, backgrounds, or stories move us toward some greater than ourselves. As a Christian in the Episcopal traditi...

Jul 1
2 min

20/20 in 2020

The percentage of Americans who wear corrective lenses to improve their eye sight runs high. If you don’t wear glasses to facilitate your...

Jun 3
4 min

Random Thoughts, Statistics, Faith Communities Actions, and the COVID-19 Pandemic - Carl Carmichael

This started out to be just another weekly message from yours truly, but as I dug into the reams of information available out there, I th...

May 18
2 min

Justice Cannot Wait until the Pandemic is Over

Five years ago I attended my first Talking Circle, which was at the close of a two day conference on the Wind River Indian Reservation ab...

May 18
2 min

What will be the new normal?

To state the obvious: We are living in strange times. Most of us who have devoted our lives in the service of religious leadership are fo...

Apr 29
4 min

Misconceptions of interfaith work #2: Interfaith is only for “religious people”

This is part 2/3 of a series that seeks to dispel some of the most common misconceptions about interfaith work. Check out misconception #...

Apr 21
3 min

Crisis and Victory: Lessons from the Garden of Ridvan - Katrina Bradley

Uppermost on everyone’s mind these days is the COVID 19 crisis. This crisis is different from any humanity has faced before. However, hum...

Apr 14
3 min

"Coronavirus and Hope for Us All"- Rev. Dr. Sally Palmer

The Coronavirus has changed our lives, in ways great and small. Wyoming used to be known as the “home town” with very long streets. But, ...

Apr 3
3 min

"Summoning Our Guardian Angels" - Rev. Warren Murphy

Angels have been a part of our faith tradition forever. For a long time they were debunked for being a part of fairy tale religion. In po...

Apr 1
3 min

Love in the time of Coronavirus

“Love in the Time of Cholera” is the classic novel written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. As faith community leaders, we are writing our own ...

Mar 24
2 min

The Wyoming Interfaith Network (WIN) and the COVID-19 virus

As I write, amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Wyoming Interfaith Network (WIN) and it’s interfaith communities share a concern for the w...

Mar 24
1 min

Tips for Supporting Food Banks

Food banks are very busy at this time. With schools closed and many people not being able to work and earn an income more and more peopl...

Mar 10
2 min

“They tried to kill us. They failed. Let’s eat.” – Notes on Purim by Rabbi Larry Moldo

The celebration of Purim has four commandments: Read the story of Esther. Give gifts of food to friends. Give gifts of money to those who...

Mar 4
4 min

Misconceptions about interfaith work Misconception #1: Interfaith work dilutes one’s own faith.

This is part one of a series that seeks to dispel some of the most common misconceptions about interfaith work. One of the most common mi  From my experience, this could not be further from the truth. I spent two years teaching social studies in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. I moved from the high plains desert of Laramie, WY to an actual Arabian desert in the Middle East. From the mostly-white and mostly-Christian (71% of ppl in Wyoming identify as Christian) to the not-so-wh

Feb 26
3 min

Judaism & the Death Penalty - Rabbi Larry Moldo

One of the issues coming up this legislative session is repeal of the Death Penalty in Wyoming. The two quick answers to any question con...

Feb 25
3 min

Love the Stranger - by Rev. Kenneth Ingram

It’s a busy time of the year in the Christian church calendar. It’s the end of Epiphany, Sunday the 23rd is transfiguration, Ash Wednesda...

Feb 18
2 min

Peacemaking - Pastor Doug Goodwin

Peacemaking. Last spring, the Spiritual Life Team of the Wyoming Interfaith Network sent out a survey inquiring about your top interests...

Feb 11
2 min

LOVING BEYOND - A Meditation - Rev. Dr. Sally Palmer

I honor a physicist, who lived beyond science, who cared beyond religion, who taught beyond the classroom. ..Dr. Burt Muller, a physics p...

{"items":["5f32aa4457c1ec0018691eb5","5f1ee53774441e0017dccdda","5f0dd3787166ec0017c17545","5efcc8e10a76c100171805cf","5ed7cc6bd6a98d001718570e","5ec2e40feadd4800175802e9","5ec2e399ee67eb0017e51182","5ea9ea0a2b72700017185cc8","5e9ef46eb8871e00174e6a7f","5e95c8da7670740017102a5d","5e876cde1528080017833718","5e850603e1fb4200177b90d8","5e7a687d915fad002d8105f9","5e7a67f7336b1e0017d42269","5e66abb9e2c2ee0017ab5fb2","5e5fd8939639930017f31ff0","5e56dc1f463b48002d4687d3","5e5595b886be9d00176bdde8","5e4b0be253a7d00018136856","5e3f4d20c1cc3d0017ab6dfc"],"styles":{"galleryType":"Columns","groupSize":1,"showArrows":true,"cubeImages":true,"cubeType":"fill","cubeRatio":1.3333333333333333,"isVertical":true,"gallerySize":1060,"collageAmount":0,"collageDensity":0,"groupTypes":"1","oneRow":false,"imageMargin":16,"galleryMargin":0,"floatingImages":0,"chooseBestGroup":true,"smartCrop":false,"hasThumbnails":false,"enableScroll":true,"isGrid":true,"isSlider":false,"isColumns":false,"isSlideshow":false,"cropOnlyFill":false,"fixedColumns":1,"enableInfiniteScroll":true,"isRTL":false,"minItemSize":50,"rotatingGroupTypes":"","rotatingCubeRatio":"","gallerySliderImageRatio":1.7777777777777777,"numberOfImagesPerRow":1,"numberOfImagesPerCol":1,"groupsPerStrip":0,"borderRadius":0,"boxShadow":0,"gridStyle":1,"mobilePanorama":false,"placeGroupsLtr":false,"viewMode":"preview","thumbnailSpacings":4,"galleryThumbnailsAlignment":"bottom","isMasonry":false,"isAutoSlideshow":false,"slideshowLoop":false,"autoSlideshowInterval":4,"useCustomButton":false,"bottomInfoHeight":0,"titlePlacement":"SHOW_ON_THE_RIGHT","galleryHorizontalAlign":"center","galleryTextAlign":"center","galleryVerticalAlign":"center","scrollSnap":false,"itemClick":"expand","fullscreen":true,"allowSocial":true,"allowDownload":false,"allowTitle":true,"allowDescription":false,"loveButton":true,"loveCounter":false,"videoPlay":"hover","scrollAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","scrollDirection":0,"overlayAnimation":"FADE_IN","arrowsPosition":0,"arrowsSize":23,"watermarkOpacity":40,"watermarkSize":40,"useWatermark":true,"watermarkDock":{"top":"auto","left":"auto","right":0,"bottom":0,"transform":"translate3d(0,0,0)"},"loadMoreAmount":"all","defaultShowInfoExpand":1,"allowTitleExpand":true,"allowDescriptionExpand":true,"allowLinkExpand":true,"expandInfoPosition":0,"allowFullscreenExpand":true,"fullscreenLoop":false,"galleryAlignExpand":"left","addToCartBorderWidth":1,"addToCartButtonText":"","slideshowInfoSize":200,"playButtonForAutoSlideShow":false,"allowSlideshowCounter":false,"hoveringBehaviour":"NEVER_SHOW","thumbnailSize":120,"magicLayoutSeed":1,"imageHoverAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","calculateTextBoxHeightMode":"AUTOMATIC","calculateTextBoxWidthMode":"PERCENT","textBoxHeight":0,"textBoxWidth":200,"textBoxWidthPercent":50,"textImageSpace":10,"textBoxBorderRadius":0,"textBoxBorderWidth":0,"textsVerticalPadding":0,"textsHorizontalPadding":-30,"titleDescriptionSpace":6,"customButtonText":"","customButtonBorderWidth":1,"customButtonBorderRadius":0,"loadMoreButtonText":"","loadMoreButtonBorderWidth":1,"loadMoreButtonBorderRadius":0,"imageInfoType":"ATTACHED_BACKGROUND","itemBorderWidth":1,"itemBorderRadius":0,"itemEnableShadow":false,"itemShadowBlur":20,"itemShadowDirection":135,"itemShadowSize":10,"imageLoadingMode":"BLUR","expandAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","imageQuality":90,"usmToggle":false,"usm_a":0,"usm_r":0,"usm_t":0,"videoSound":false,"videoSpeed":"1","videoLoop":true,"gallerySizeType":"px","gallerySizePx":1060,"itemBorderColor":{"value":"rgba(183, 201, 211, 0.41)"},"galleryLayout":2,"modifiedGallerySize":true,"selectedLayout":"2|bottom|1|fill|true|0|true","layoutsVersion":2,"selectedLayoutV2":2,"isSlideshowFont":false,"externalInfoHeight":0,"externalInfoWidth":0.5},"container":{"width":1060,"galleryWidth":1092,"galleryHeight":1440,"scrollBase":0,"height":null}}

Wyoming

Interfaith

network