St. Peter's Church in Clifton held interfaith conference

[Clifton Journal] St. Peter's Episcopal Church hosted on May 15, an interfaith conference on Hagar, a mother of faith by women of faith. Rabbi Ziona Zelazo, Rev. Lynne Weber, an Episcopal priest and Dr. Nuray Yurt, a Muslim scholar presented the perspective of their community of faith on Hagar.

Since the evening focused on Hagar, the conference organizers invited women of faith to share a feminine perspective on this mother of faith. Hagar was an Egyptian slave of Sarah, the wife of Abraham. The story of Hagar begins in the book of Genesis in the Bible. When Sarah could not conceive a child, she gave Hagar to Abraham to beget a child who was called Ishmael.