The Interfaith Alliance Hawai‘i has scheduled a forum of national and local scholars titled “Non-Violence: Philosophy and Practice in World Religions” that will take place at 6:30 p.m. March 12 at Honpa Hongwanji Hawaii Betsuin, 1727 Pali Highway.

Two panelists slated for the event are professors at the Eden Theological Seminary, an ecumenical, progressive graduate school based in Missouri and associated with the United Church of Christ. The Rev. David Greenhaw is president of Eden and professor of preaching and worship; the Rev. Dama­yan­thi Niles is professor of constructive theology, teaching interfaith studies, comparative theology, contextual theology with particular interest in Asia and the language of theology in a landscape of conflict and violence.

The forum is sponsored by Hawaii residents Armin and Shirley Lim­per, former UCC missionaries.
Other panelists include Dale Bishop, former executive minister of UCC Wider Church Ministries and a Middle East scholar; Bishop Eric Matsu­moto, head of the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii; Imam Ismail M.M. Elshikh, head of the Hawaii Muslim Association’s mosque in Manoa and a visiting professor of Islamic studies at the Graduate Theological Foundation and the Islamic University of Minnesota; and Rabbi Peter Schaktman of ‘Oahu Jewish ‘Ohana, who spent two years living in an Israeli Arab village as a community worker in Arab-Jewish relations before his ordination.

The moderators will be Pieper Toyama, president of Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii and former head of the Pacific Buddhist Academy; and Maryknoll Sister Joan Chatfield, executive director of the Institute for Religion and Social Change. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information, contact Bishop Stephen Randolph Sykes at inter­faithalliancehawaii@hawaii.rr.com or 561-6010.