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How To Achieve Inner Peace
BMDG Coffee Hour, A Panel Discussion
April 14, 8pm
Georgian Room (First Floor), Indiana Memorial Union
900 East 7th Street, Bloomington IN
Panelists
Father Dan Atkins, Yamina Mermer, Mary Pattison, Mira Wasserman
PICTURES FROM THE COFFEE HOUR
Our guest speakers representing different faith traditions discussed "How to Achieve Inner Peace", which is a question very relevant to all human beings.
Here are the names and short bios of the guest speakers:
Father Dan Atkins
Father Dan Atkins is a Catholic friend of and participant in the Bloomington Muslim Dialog Group. He is the pastor of St. Paul Catholic Center, the Catholic student center for Indiana University. A high school teacher for twelve years, Fr. Dan earned a Master of Science in Education from Indiana University before entering the St. Meinrad School of Theology, receiving a Master of Divinity, and being ordained in 1987.
Yamina Mermer
Dr. Yamina Mermer was born in Oran in Algeria in 1958, and graduated from the Department of Theoretical Physics in the University of Algeria. She then went to England to further her studies, and received her MS degree from Durham University in 1982, and in 1985 her Doctoral degree in particle physics from the same university. Currently, she is a PhD student at the Islamic Studies program of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department, at IU.
Mary Pattison
Mary Pattison is a retired high school English teacher (39 years). She began doing part-time volunteer work for the Tibetan Cultural Center in 1994 and became a full-time volunteer in 1998 when she moved to Bloomington to assist the TCC to prepare for the visit of the Dalai Lama when he came here in 1999 for 12 days to give the Kalachakra for World Peace. For the past year she has been volunteering full-time as the National Coordinator for the 2003-04 tour of 11 Buddhist monks from Drepung Gomang Monastery. She has been a Buddhist practitioner for 11 years, following the path of peace and compassion as taught by the Buddha and the Dalai Lama.
Mira Wasserman
Mira Wasserman has served as the rabbi of Congregation Beth Shalom, the Bloomington Jewish community center, for six years. She attended rabbinical school at the Hebrew Union College, and also pursued studies in Jerusalem. She is originally from Philadelphia, PA. She has recently published a children's book about the Jewish Sabbath. Mira is married, and has two young sons.
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