Prairie Lutheran Church is hosting an American Red Cross Blood Drive from 1-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7. Call the church office at 952-829-0525 to schedule an appointment.
To donate, you must be in good health, at least 17 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds, and have not donated blood in last 56 days. Visit www.givelife.org to review donor eligibility guidelines and view a video on what to expect when donating blood.

By Rod Anderson

Spiritually Speaking, (that is this column’s name after all) how’s your fall schooling in the faith going so far? If that’s a fair question in any and every school from preschools and kindergarten to graduate schools and lifelong learning classes, then it’s also a fair fall question one month into Sunday school and religious education courses about faith and theology.

The Music and Fine Arts Series of Eden Prairie United Methodist Church presents “Dorothy’s Journey” at 7 p.m. Oct. 11 and 12. Joining the “Prairie Church Celebration Players” (the church’s theater group) is guest actor, Chelsea Reller, a junior at Eden Prairie High School, playing the role of Dorothy. Chelsea is a well-known actor with the Eden Prairie High School drama program, and has also performed with The Guthrie Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres and Theatre Latte Da.

A free premier movie screening of “Abanunule: The Redeemed” is set for 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, at Resurrection Life Church, 16397 Glory Lane, Eden Prairie. For information, call 952-934-5433.
“Set on the streets of Kampala, Uganda, ‘Abanunule’ follows the fall and redemption of Freddy, a former street orphan, as he turns away from his positive life at a boys’ home to return to drugs and violence on the streets,” according to a news release.

The following are responses from Rabbi Harold J. Kravitz, Max Newman Family Chair in Rabbinics, of Adath Jeshurun Congregation in Minnetonka to questions posed by the Eden Prairie Human Rights and Diversity Commission regarding the Jewish faith:

Q: Tell us something about your faith tradition.

By Lauren Carlson-Vohs

These are troubled times we are living through. It seems each day there is some new piece of news to cause us concern, what with our ongoing war, rapidly worsening climate change and series of natural disasters – to name but a few. And now this faltering economy that some predict could turn into a Depression far worse than the last one.

Marilyn Patterson share a story of one trip to Africa.

The following are responses from Dr. Shashikant Sane of Excelsior to questions posed by the Eden Prairie Human Rights and Diversity Commission regarding the Hindu faith:
Q: Tell us something about your faith tradition.

By Bernard Johnson

I’ve been thinking about inner peace, that inner serenity virtually all of us value and seek in one way or another. The need for it comes early in life and its absence is telling. I can still hear my mother saying of a young man we knew as a neighbor and friend, “He seems to have no peace.”
It seems like there is a shortage of inner peace these days. People are tense and worried much of the time. There may be a lot of energy but there is precious little peace. The world is very busy place without a lot of peace.