50 years later Friendship Manor remains a monument to how faith groups can work together to serve Utah's elderly
11/15/2017 01:05:10 PM
"It was a 1961 chat between a Unitarian minister and a Westminster College professor that proved the genesis for Salt Lake City’s Friendship Manor retirement community.
The Rev. Hugh Gillilan credited economics professor Robert Conrod for coming up with the idea that Nov. 30, 1961, day, as the two chatted in the school’s parking lot.
Gillilan’s First Unitarian Church soon was joined by Salt Lake City’s First Congregational Church, Holladay United Church of Christ and Congregation B’Nai Israel (now Congregation Kol Ami) in sponsoring the $3.5 million project."
Religious leaders are urging Salt Lake City and county to finish housing plan before a state law closes 1,100-bed shelter
10/16/2017 01:05:31 PM
"Nearly three-dozen religious leaders are urging the city to complete its affordable housing plans and ensure the region has hundreds of units available to low-income residents before the downtown homeless shelter is closed by July 2019.
The collection of ministers delivered a letter Monday to Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski, saying hundreds of people could be left with nowhere to go if deadlines are missed for constructing new affordable-housing units."
Commentary: Utah clergy respond to Nashville statement
09/12/2017 01:13:50 PM
"We each celebrate that all people are created in the image of God and that the diversity seen in the broad spectrum of sexualities reflects a diversity inherent in God’s creation. We rejoice in unions that honor God’s greatest gift of love, regardless of the orientation of the parties involved, and we see absolutely no inconsistencies with either tradition or scripture in accepting LGBTQ people as God made them."
Utahns rally to condemn white nationalist violence in Virginia
08/14/2017 01:02:00 PM
"Rabbi Ilana Schwartzman of Salt Lake's Congregation Kol Ami said she graduated from the University of Virginia 16 years ago and is descended from Jews who escaped Nazi Germany. She has a 3-month-old daughter, and the violence nearly 2,000 miles away on Saturday made her too afraid to bring the baby to her speech Monday night, she said."
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865686810/Utahns-rally-to-condemn-Charlottesville-violence.html
Religious, community leaders dedicate Utah's first hospice for the homeless
05/11/2017 01:00:52 PM
"Rabbi Frederick Wenger of Kol Ami promised that those who volunteer at this hospice sanctuary will feel God dwell with them, citing others who were blessed for building the original tabernacle and sanctuary in Exodus."
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