Upcoming Events
and Holidays
See an interfaith program missing below? Submit your event here and we’ll look at adding it to our calendar!
First Five Freedoms
You are invited to join fellow faith and civic leaders from across our city and state to learn more about First Five Freedoms, a new organization dedicated to providing a space where all Americans, no matter their faith or politics, can find common ground:
Celebrating our First Amendment rights
Protecting those rights when threatened
Calling out political violence
Join us at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 101 Jackson St. NE Atlanta, GA 30312 on Friday, November 7th. Please RSVP to Andrew Lewis at andrewlewis.decatur@gmail.com.
Unity in Diversity: A Path to Nonviolence through Faith, Culture, and Positive Peace
A landmark interfaith experience bringing together diverse faiths, cultures, and communities in a spirit of unity, nonviolence, and shared humanity. Through interfaith dialogue and multicultural exchange, we will explore how to build peace in our communities and beyond—together.
This is an all day event with dialogue and performances beginning at 2:00 p.m. It will be held at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 101 Jackson St NE, Atlanta, GA 30312. For more information please email interfaith@hwplgeorgia.org.
To register please visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepowk5keuxDAfBMg1uvedtyexnTawEX1C_pLhvyCk2AB6pWQ/viewform?usp=send_form.
Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings -- Shodo Spring in Conversation with Charli Vogt & Gareth Young
This event takes place in person at Charis and on Crowdcast, Charis' virtual event platform. This event is free, but registration is required for virtual attendance. Please read the in-person event guidelines at the bottom of this page to be sure you can participate in the event. Charis welcomes Shodo Spring in conversation with Charli Vogt & Gareth Young for a discussion of Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings.
Open Reality speaks to the world behind and beneath our daily collective trauma. It opens practical possibilities for creating a shared, flexible culture that knows the natural world both as family and as a working partner. It invites the reader to a world of possibility. What if industrial civilization isn't the best that humans can do? What if we weren't alone in the world, but embedded in a universe of conscious, intentional, powerful beings?
For more information and registration please visit: https://www.crowdcast.io/c/open-reality.
Shodo Spring: Discussion & Meditation
When Dharma eye looks at modern existence, things open up. We’ll dive into that opening.
We will begin with a guided meditation. Shodo Spring will offer both thoughts expressed in the new book, and a few short readings. We'll discuss what this has to do with our lives - how to actually meet the polycrisis - including personal practice in hard times. She will address the reality of human nature and how we can move forward with open hearts and minds.
We’ll conclude with a short ceremony dedicating energy to the well-being of all. In doing this, we act out the Mountains and Waters Alliance that is in Shodo’s heart.
For more information and registration please visit: https://redclaysangha.org/event-6385597.
Interfaith Atlanta Winter Lights Program
Please join us in a celebration of light this year at our annual Interfaith Winter Lights Festival! The event will take place on Saturday, December 13th from 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. at Emory University’s Canon Chapel. We will have a collection of poems, songs, and stories presented by local artists and practitioners as well as time for fellowship and dialogue to follow. We will also be collecting non-perishable items for the Eagle Food Pantry for Emory students. Most needed items are dry pasta, pasta sauce, peanut butter, jelly, oatmeal, canned beans, and canned soup. Parking will be available at the Oxford Parking Deck: 1390 Oxford Rd NE. We hope to see you there!
Let Justice Grow: Georgia Interfaith Power and Light Green Team Summit
This summit invites Green Teams, faith leaders, and environmental activists to dig deep and let justice grow. When we nurture a movement grounded in equity, resilience, and healing, we create space for transformation. Together, we will explore how the wisdom of our faith traditions shapes our call to pursue justice. We will consider how to live into this call through practical climate solutions and how policy efforts can support thriving communities.
Our keynote speaker, Shantha Ready Alonso, executive director of the America the Beautiful for All Coalition, will challenge us to see justice not only as political action but also as a deeply spiritual practice. Then, through a variety of workshops, attendees will gain tools to build and strengthen Green Teams, advance climate justice, and engage in advocacy from the ground up. Together, we will find practical ways to live out our shared call to care for our congregations, our communities, and our Common Home.
Learn more and get your tickets here: https://gipl.org/gts26?emci=f65140d8-7eb3-f011-8e61-6045bded8ba4&emdi=7a443df1-d7b4-f011-8e61-6045bded8ba4&ceid=13262796.
CompassionCon
CompassionCon is an annual outdoor celebration that brings together people of all ages to experience the vibrant ecosystem of a compassionate community. Held at the historic Legacy Park in Decatur, this fun, fall festival invites neighbors, families, and organizations to connect through shared values of kindness, justice, and inclusion.
Step into a landscape of compassion—an ecosystem of 15 immersive “neighborhoods” designed to explore the many ways compassion can live in our communities: through storytelling, food, healing, creativity, environmental care, civic engagement, and joyful play.
This intergenerational gathering is a space where peaceful words and actions are practiced, celebrated, and amplified. Whether you're learning about herbal remedies in the Learning Lab, connecting with changemakers in the Civil Rights Town Center, or simply enjoying the laughter of kids in the Children’s Play Space—you belong here.
CompassionCon is more than a festival—it’s how we grow the roots of an inclusive, connected, and kindhearted Georgia. With 100+ vendors and up to 1500 guests, this event shows us how we build our interconnectedness and value our common humanity throughout our communities.
Come discover organizations that center compassion in their work. Come meet your neighbors. Get civically engaged. Come help us build the future we want to live in—together. This is how we change the systems in which we live! This is how we change the world, one community at a time.
Learn more, become a sponsor, register your table, or sign up to volunteer at https://compassioncon.org/.
Children's Sabbath Interfaith Observance
When faiths come together, Beloved Community becomes possible.
Step into sacred space where prayers rise, voices unite, and children lead the way. The Interfaith Children’s Observance Service at Big Bethel AME Church is the heart of Children’s Sabbath Month, a time when faith communities across traditions gather to lift Georgia’s children in hope, healing, and commitment.
Expect soul-stirring prayers, prophetic preaching, and the powerful presence of our youngest advocates. This is not just worship, it’s a gathering of the Beloved Community.
Invite your faith communities, neighbors, family, and friends. Come be renewed, inspired, and recommitted to the vision of a Georgia where all children thrive.
To register please visit: https://www.mobilize.us/icmgeorgia/event/851138/?referring_vol=11415158&share_context=dashboard-event-details&sharer_role=2.
Wisdom for the Storms: Healing Black Trauma with the Land
In preparation for the climate changes ahead, Atlanta faith leaders are invited to “Wisdom for the Storms,” a community conversation series remembering ancestral survival wisdoms.
Our first session will take place on Thursday, Oct. 23, from 7- 9 p.m. at the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance Outdoor Activity Center.
This opening conversation, “Healing Black Trauma with the Land,” led by Rev. Dr. Jamie Eaddy, is an altar call for those ready to mend and expand their relationship with all of Creation—a sacred relationship torn asunder by the evils of colonialism and chattel slavery.
Whether you are clergy or lay, already an environmental justice activist or still hesitant to touch grass, you are invited. You are welcome. You are called.
This conversation is in partnership with the Food and Land Institute of the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC). Space is limited. Register below today. Dinner will be provided.
Learn more at https://gipl.org/events/wisdomforthestorms/10232025#eaddy.
Georgia Interfaith Public Policy Center Legislative Conference 2025
The annual Legislative Conference will be held on October 23, 2025, from 10 am to 4 pm at Oak Grove United Methodist Church. It will feature presentations from interfaith advocates and policy experts ahead of the 2026 legislative session. There will also be a county-by-county planning session on how to jumpstart the most critical work in our communities.
Learn more and register at https://georgiainterfaithcenter.org/event/gippc-legislative-conference-2025/.
Weekend Retreat: Caring for Our Common Home
Our precious Earth is calling us to pause and listen. Her beauty and abundance are gifts that sustain us, yet our modern ways of living often pull us away from the ancient rhythms and deep connections that nurture both the planet and our souls. This silent retreat offers a gentle invitation to step back, reconnect with creation, and open our hearts to an ecological awakening.
Through the wisdom of the Hebrew Scriptures, the Christian Gospels, the poetry of Rumi and Mary Oliver, and the writings of visionaries like Sufi scholar Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Elizabeth Johnson, and Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., we’ll explore creation spirituality—blending ancient wisdom with modern insights.
From October 17-19 take this opportunity to leave behind the noise of daily life and immerse yourself in the stillness of nature, scripture, and reflection. Together, let us renew our commitment to compassionate care for God’s creation, for ourselves and for the generations to come.
This is a silent retreat. Guests are expected to maintain a sacred silence throughout the retreat, including at meals, unless otherwise noted.
Learn more and register at https://ignatiushouse.org/calendar/weekend-retreat-caring-for-our-common-home-oct2025/.
Fetzer's "Shared Sacred Story" Launch at Naropa University
Join us for the launch of the Fetzer Institute's Shared Sacred Story project launch in Boulder, Colorado, inviting the human family to unite under a common story, the story of who we are as one global human family, connected in love, even across our differences.
Fetzer invited nine teams of scholar-practitioners to tell the stories of their religious traditions—Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, etc.—in a fictional format as a gift back to the world, and then to create a common sacred story of humanity.
This event will feature the leaders of the Buddhist, Hindu, and Interspiritual teams:
Acharya Dr. Judith Simmer-Brown, Buddhist Team
Dr. Ananatanand Rambachan, Hindu Team
Pir Netanel Miles-Yepez, Interspiritual Team
Dr. Rory McEntee, Interspiritual Team
Come witness a dialogue of collaborative narratives, reminding us all of the power of storytelling as a path towards pluralism and unity. This event is offered both in person and online. We hope you will join us!
Trees Atlanta @ Atlanta Memorial Park
Join Interfaith Atlanta’s Faith In Action with Trees Atlanta on April 26th from 9 am -12 pm! We will be removing invasive plants in Atlanta Memorial Park!
Help promote a healthy plant community and a sustainable forest in Atlanta Memorial Park. Your work will improve habitat for humans who use the greenspace for recreation and wildlife that call it home. Activities include removing invasive plants such as Chinese privet, Rose of Sharon, and Eleagnus in a densely wooded area off trail. Please wear long pants, a long-sleeved shirt, and closed toe shoes or boots you don't mind getting dirty! Physical activity such as bending, pulling, lifting, and kneeling is required. Forest restoration can be physically strenuous - be ready to break a sweat and get dirty and learn a lot while doing it!
Winter Lights Festival
Please join us for a celebration of light through poetry, stories, song and inspiring words as we come together in community. This beautiful event highlights the hope we each have as we close out 2024 and enter 2025 in connection with one another - come be a part and invite a friend!
Interfaith Atlanta's 4th Annual Interfaith Festival
Join us for interfaith entertainment, food, friendship and service in partnership with The Sandwich Project. This event is open to all!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Thank you to all of our generous sponsors who help make this event possible. If you are interested in joining our growing list of festival sponsors, please visit our Interfaith Festival page.