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On October 1, 2022 the Kinship Activity collaborated with Universal Worship to offer a community celebration Attuning to Race, Place and Space at the UW Convocation in Richmond, VA.  Dozens attended the event held at the Episcopal Roslyn Retreat Center on land had been cleared and trenched by the enslaved community. Jabriel Hasan led theContinue reading “Collaboration on Race, Place and Space”

Over 200 people registered to participate in the Inayatiyya’s 21 Day Racial Equity Building Challenge which ran from Nov. 1 to Nov 21. Credit for the design of the program goes to Dr Eddie Moore, a national leader committed to garnering skills for living in a diverse society. He provides leadership training grounded in buildingContinue reading “Deepening our Commitment to Equity and Harmony”

By Nirtana Vivienne Robertson Creative Director Reclaim the Void | Kinship Coordinator Australia Reclaim the Void: weaving country whole is a partnership between Sufi and Australian First Nations ways. I believe it arose from asking the right question. Whilst in a small remote West Australian town on the edge of the desert I was meeting withContinue reading “Australian Sufis in Partnership with First Nations”

A new book by Sharifa Oppenheimer                            We are happy to share the release of a new publication: A Litany of Wild Graces! Perhaps it will sit on your bedside table and poem by poem seep into your dreams and inspire your days.Continue reading “A Litany of Wild Graces: Meditations on Sacred Ecology”

There are many social justice issues simmering under the surface in New Zealand, a story familiar to all colonized countries, and although New Zealand has a reputation for having good race relations and equal opportunities, many would say that is overstated. Māori make up over 50% of the prison population, despite being 15% of theContinue reading “Aotearoa NZ Kinship Initiative”

The chain of transmission of the Inayatiyya encompasses the teachings and lineages of four great Sufi orders; the Chishti, Suhrawardi, Qadiri, and Naqshbandi. The Chishti Order was founded in Afghanistan and later spread to the Indian subcontinent. In 1910 Ḥazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan was the first Chishti teacher to arrive in the West. In the lastContinue reading “Help Us Honor our Chishti Ancestors”

Submitted by Board members Richard Cuadra and Carmen Hussein Kids in Nature Program (KIN) has been a program at The Hope (in Nazamuddin Basti, Delhi, India) for seventeen years. Years ago we rented a bus with forty children and ten staff and toured different areas of India all the way to the ocean. There, some students becameContinue reading “Important Update from The Hope Project”

Submitted by Halim Bruno Knobel, VP Kinship Europe (Switzerland) Basira Hela Hasemann (Germany) It is part of the tradition of the Kinship branch of the European countries in our Inayatiyya family to hold a meeting every two years in Suresnes, a city on the outskirts of Paris. This is the location of the former homeContinue reading “Pilgrimage 2021 to Fazal Manzil (The House of Blessings)”

Submitted by Anna Latifa Vandevenne (Belgium) Join us with your prayers! Fifty years ago, I joined the human rights organization, Amnesty International by writing letters on behalf of people whose Human Rights were violated. In that time, before computer availability, handwriting letters for “prisoners of conscience” was for me an occasion for prayer and meditation.Continue reading “Nayaz-Sister-Brotherhood Project”

Submitted by Shams Kairys Over the last year-and-a-half, the Kinship Activity has presented a series of virtual gatherings hosted by Shams Kairys that bear witness to current threats to the natural world while fostering a sense of the sacred and a spirit of positive engagement. The upcoming event on December 17 at 3:00 ET featuresContinue reading “Responding to the Global Ecological Crisis”