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In recent years, a growing number of Alabama faith leaders have sought deeper relationships with one another and ways to speak with greater unity on social issues of mutual concern. In January 2002, the state heads of the Episcopal, Presbyterian (USA), Southern Baptist, and United Methodist churches issued a “unified call for tax reform” in Alabama.
In 2003 several Christian leaders met, at the invitation of Episcopal Bishop Henry Parsley, and agreed to create a sustained partnership involving top leaders and laypeople from the Abrahamic faiths. This united group would nurture ecumenical and interfaith relationships and be able to respond faithfully to social issues of our state, without having to build a new ad hoc organizational structure each time a need arises.
In a series of interfaith planning meetings during 2004 and early 2005, faith leaders, policy leaders, and key lay leaders within the state developed the concept of the Alabama Faith Council. The AFC was established to facilitate relationship-building between the leaders of Alabama’s many faith communities at a state, regional and local level. The AFC also brings together lay people of many faiths to work together on social issues according to shared principles, drawing in part on the resources of organizations such as Alabama Arise, Greater Birmingham Ministries, Interfaith Mission Services (Huntsville), the National Conference for Community and Justice, and Voices for Alabama’s Children.
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Alabama Faith Council — P. O. Box 2113, Birmingham AL 35202 — Tel. 205-226-0800 |
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The Alabama Faith Council |
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Bringing Together Voices and Hands of Faith |