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Esteemed colleagues, You are warmly invited for coffee and conversation with faith leaders Rev. Dr. George Mason and Rabbi Nancy Kasten of Faith Commons and CLEAR (Clergy League for Emergency Action and Response). Rev. Dr. Mason and Rabbi Kasten will talk about their crucial work promoting tolerance by bringing local faith and community groups together across differences to serve the common good. Saturday, October 31, 2026 12pm to 12:30pm Social time with coffee & refreshments 12:30pm to 2pm Conversation with our guest speakers Location: Catherine Johnson’s office. 7515 Greenville Ave, Ste 903 Dallas Texas 75231 Please RSVP by emailing radhi@rdanimd.com Guests welcome. Organized by CoDI/Community Outreach committee Meet Rabbi Nancy Kasten & Rev. Dr. George Mason Rabbi Kasten is Chief Relationship Officer for Faith Commons, a Dallas-based interfaith organization. She is a community educator, volunteer and activist, as well as a certified Jewish Mindfulness Meditation Teacher. Rabbi Kasten has served on the governing boards of many nonprofit organizations, including the Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion, the Greenhill School, and the National Council of Jewish Women Dallas Section. Currently she serves on the boards of Polyphony Education and Truah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. She is also a member of the Union for Reform Judaism’s Commission on Social Action. Rev. Dr. George Mason is a Christian theologian and Baptist pastor in Dallas, and the founder and president of Faith Commons. He is a nationally recognized leader among Baptists, serving the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, New Baptist Covenant, Perkins School of Theology at SMU, along with other local and global ecumenical and interfaith endeavors. He is a frequent op-ed contributor to The Dallas Morning News on subjects of public interest that intersect religion, such as public education, race relations and predatory lending. He writes a monthly column on public theology for the Lakewood/East Dallas and Lake Highlands editions of the community news magazine The Advocate. His sermons have been the highest rated program on the Sunday morning worship line up on WRR radio in Dallas for many years. Dr. Mason hosts the popular Good God Project podcast, which you can listen to here. Suggested Readings: A Poetics of Reconcilement: Psychoanalysis and Dilemmas of Faith. Gideon Lev. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 2018, Vol. 35, No. 1, 38– 45. Read here. Partnerships Between Faith Communities and the Mental Health Sector: A Scoping Review. Lilian Perez, Christian Cardenas, Tara Blagg, Eunice Wong. Psychiatric Services, 2024 Oct. Read here.