Steve Herrera (correspondent) : Shinnyo-en Foundation

Steve Herrera (correspondent)

Published August 4, 2010

Steve Herrera

Steve, an ordained Catholic Deacon, has been teaching religious studies for the past 34 years. Currently he is a teacher at Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, CA. During his summer breaks Steve is a part of the Six Billion Paths to Peace Project by facilitating interfaith immersion trips involving teens and adults from the Catholic Dioese of San Jose with teens and adults from the Shinnyo-en Buddhist Order. Steve serves as member of the Board of Directors of the Interfaith Council on Economics and Justice, and is a Global Fellow with Catholic Relief Services.

Catholic and Shinnyo-en Buddhist Youth Plant the Seeds of Peace

Published November 1, 2010

On July 22-26, 2010, eight Catholic teens from the Diocese of San Jose and six Shinnyo-en Buddhist teens from the San Francisco Bay area and Chicago, paticipated in an interfaith immersion trip to New Mexico.

I facilitated this trip and worked with Los Niños International to coordinate the volunteer and cultural experiences for our group. This unique trip centered around building peace by helping with organic community farm projects and engaging in and sharing interfaith dialogue and prayer and chanting.

As this was an interfaith trip our first stop in Sante Fe we visited the Upaya Zen Center (http://www.upaya.org/) and were taken on... Read more...

Interfaith Trip 2010: A Fusion of Religion & Spirituality

Published May 22, 2010

Two Shinnyo-en young adults, Komada Tatsuyki (Seattle) and David Mcclean (New York) traveled with four Catholics, Kaye and Fred Tierney, Raquel Palma and Deacon Steve Herrera, from the Diocese of San Jose to explore the Navajo and Apache tribes in Arizona and New Mexico. We toured mystical landscapes and walked with the paths ancient ones walked in centuries old cliff dwellings. We read the petroglyphs left for us... Read more...

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