Huntsville’s Peace Valley Foundation sets annual Dialogue Dinner and awards

Chanda Davis, right, receives recognition as one of the 2009 Huntsville Schools System Teachers of the Year from from former school board chairman, Doug Martinson. Davis will be presented with the Education Award for fostering intercultural understanding and connections by the Peace Valley Foundation during their 2013 Dialogue Dinner in Huntsville on Thursday, April 18, 2013. (Courtesy of Steve Campbell)
Chanda Davis, right, receives recognition as one of the 2009 Huntsville Schools System Teachers of the Year from from former school board chairman, Doug Martinson. Davis will be presented with the Education Award for fostering intercultural understanding and connections by the Peace Valley Foundation during their 2013 Dialogue Dinner in Huntsville on Thursday, April 18, 2013. (Courtesy of Steve Campbell)


Date posted: April 17, 2013

A specialist in comparative theologies, Professor Loye Ashton, will deliver the keynote address at the 2013 Peace Valley Foundation’s Dialogue Dinner and Award Ceremony in Huntsville on Thursday, April 18, 2013.

The annual dinner, sponsored by the non-profit organization dedicated to solving educational, cultural, environmental, social and humanitarian challenges, provides an opportunity for building bridges between people of different cultural and religious traditions.

This year’s dinner will begin at 6 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of The Huntsville Marriott next to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.

Awards will be presented to local professionals who build interfaith and intercultural understanding. This year’s award winner for Education is Chanda W. Davis, a nationally respected science teacher at Huntsville High School, in Education.

The award for Community Service will be presented to the Rev. Frank Broyles, who has been active in interfaith and diversity ministry in Huntsville his entire career.

The award for Media will be presented to Kay Campbell, who has been religion reporter for The Huntsville Times since 2005.

Professor Ashton, speaking from his office at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss., said that interfaith dialogue has become increasingly common in the U.S., particularly in the years since 9/11.

“A lot of interfaith work was forged during the Civil Rights era, but a lot of that generation has passed on,” Ashton said. “Now those conversations are widening to include Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs – and Muslims are the ones, in many communities, who are really leading the way.”

“As a Christian, I see places for common ground among faiths,” Ashton said.

The Peace Valley Foundation, which won the 2012 Jeffrey L. Ballon Interfaith Award from Huntsville’s Interfaith Mission Service, is a branch of Istanbul Center Alabama and affiliated with the global humanitarian work of Fethullah Gulen. Gulen is an Islamic thinker who encourages Muslims, as an expression of their faith, to take the lead in making their communities friendlier and more peaceful.

Source: Al.com, 10 April 2013

Tags: USA, Interfaith dialogue, Peace awards

 

Tags: | | | |


Related News

Kimse Yok Mu reaches out to tribe in Panama

Located on Ustopo Island, the volunteers form the Kimse Yok Mu went to the tribe named Kunayala through some special boats and a plane. Locals of the tribe, which has a population of 7,000 people, welcomed Kimse Yok Mu officials with great joy.

‘Fethullah Gulen is one of the leading Islamic thinkers in the world’

I think the Gulen, or Hizmet, Movement represents Islam by, on the one hand, maintaining a strong connection to and being rooted in the Islamic primary sources, such as the Qur’an and the Prophetic teachings, but, at the same time, not neglecting the world around it.

Understanding of Muslims in US is limited, says scholar

“Part of what we are doing involves interfaith work,” says Turk, and he brings up the role of the Pacifica Institute in California that does similar work in accordance with the teachings of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. “The same values are taught by Gülen,” Turk says, and adds that students from the Gülen-inspired Hizmet movement attend Bayan Claremont as well. “We are educating the next generation of Islamic scholars and community leaders,” Turk says.

Millions of people have asked for interview with Gülen

We realized it was not only millions of people in Turkey but also the world who were paying attention to what Gülen had to say. The interest in the Gülen interview also confirmed the universal dimension and vision of the Hizmet movement.

Persecution of the Gülen Movement in Turkey

The Gülen (a.k.a Hizmet) movement, a faith-based community, has been subject to political persecution for more than two years by the Turkish government since they stood up against corruption and injustice under the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan has publicly called for a “witch hunt,” and arrests, threats, and harassments have now become a routine for participants and sympathizers of the movement.

Turkish Schools Discussed at Johns Hopkins University

In a conference at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (CACI) at the Johns Hopkins University, Turkish schools in Central Asia were closely analyzed. In a conference titled ‘Turkish way of Islam Educates Central Asians’, which Dr. Bayram Balci from the French Institute of Anatolian Studies in Istanbul attended as lecturer, the educational movement initiated by Fethullah […]

Latest News

Turkish inmate jailed over alleged Gülen links dies of heart attack in prison

Message of Condemnation and Condolences for Mass Shooting at Bondi Beach, Sydney

Media executive Hidayet Karaca marks 11th year in prison over alleged links to Gülen movement

ECtHR faults Turkey for convictions of 2,420 applicants over Gülen links in follow-up to 2023 judgment

New Book Exposes Erdoğan’s “Civil Death Project” Targeting the Hizmet Movement

European Human Rights Treaty Faces Legal And Political Tests

ECtHR rejects Turkey’s appeal, clearing path for retrials in Gülen-linked cases

Erdoğan’s Civil Death Project’ : The ‘politicide’ spanning more than a decade

Fethullah Gülen’s Vision and the Purpose of Hizmet

In Case You Missed It

Albania deports Gülen follower at Turkey’s request despite court rejection of extradition

TUSKON awarded damages, to build orphanage in Uganda

Senegalese deputies say Turkish schools taught them fraternity

Fethullah Gulen Talked to Kurdish TV on Kurds, human rights and Erdogan

The Mystery of Turkey’s Failed Coup

Fethullah Gülen’s Message of Condolences in the Wake of the Western European Floods

Textile firms expand $153 bln export industry at TUSKON meeting

Copyright 2026 Hizmet News