Obama's Interfaith Holiday Greeting

April 4, 2010

Author: Matthew Hay Brown

Source: The Baltimore Sun

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/faith/2010/04/obamas_interfaith_holiday_gree.html

President Barack Obama used his weekly radio address on Saturday to extend holiday greetings to Christians, Jews and others.

This is a week of faithful celebration. On Monday and Tuesday nights, Jewish families and friends in the United States and around the world gathered for a Seder to commemorate the Exodus from Egypt and the triumph of hope and perseverance over injustice and oppression. On Sunday, my family will join other Christians all over the world in marking the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

And while we worship in different ways, we also remember the shared spirit of humanity that inhabits us all – Jews and Christians, Muslims and Hindus, believers and nonbelievers alike.

Amid the storm of public debate, with our 24/7 media cycle, in a town like Washington that’s consumed with the day-to-day, it can sometimes be easy to lose sight of the eternal. So, on this Easter weekend, let us hold fast to those aspirations we hold in common as brothers and sisters, as members of the same family – the family of man.