Free food and interfaith fun

Well this term we've really been flying with it and hopefully you've spotted us about. At the start of March we held an Interfaith Cafe which was great. It was just a chilled out couple of hours in Coffee Revolution where anyone could come and chat to people of different faiths. The idea wasn't to specifically talk about faith and issues to do with it, but just to meet new people. We had people from a number of different faiths which made it a really diverse and interesting evening; Sikh, Jewish, Catholic, Christian, Baha'I(find out about this faith at the next event!), Agnostic (thinks there might be a 'God', but doesn't follow a religion) and Athiests (Doesn't believe in a 'God').

The next cafe will be after Easter, look out for it on the website and come down to meet some lovely people over coffee and cake.

During World Week, the Faiths Forum thought it would be a great idea to do something around faith and food, so we held a small event called 'Find Faith in Food'. It was decided that food is a very powerful incentive to attend an event, but also a great talking point when it comes to food.

This little event paired up people of different faiths, or people of a faith with those who don't follow a religion. Everyone marked on a giant map where they are from and where their religion is from - some very creative individuals marked off the map on the wall to signify the powerful thought that God is transcendent and can't be placed on a map. After marking the map to link up faith and global significance, people ate their free lunch and planned a menu together. Things to think about were not only what you are or are not permitted to eat in particular faiths, and why, but also rituals around food and eating, and where foods come from. This was again a brilliant and diverse event with lots of people from diverse backgrounds both in terms of faith and nationality.

So look out for more interfaith action next term so you can meet people of different faiths and find about about what it all means to people.
See you soon,
Love Claire xxx