TIAH Home Page

About TIAH

Who We Are

Calendar of Events

Commission on Community Building

Commission on

Human Concerns

Commission on

Ethics and Public Life

Position Statements

Community Awards

2010 Awards Celebration Photo Gallery

Archive

Contact Us

 

A progressive voice in Hawai'i promoting the positive healing role of religion in public life by encouraging dialogue, challenging extremism, and facilitating nonviolent community activism

  

Commission on Human Concerns

Commission Members

Douglas Pyle, MDiv

Chair

Travis Idol

Jean Sadako McKillop King

Kekapa Lee, MDiv

Bob Nakata

 

The strategic positioning goal of the Commission on Human Concerns is to be a catalyst and channel of communication, engaging the interfaith community in concern for social and human conditions that contravene accepted ethical and moral values e.g. poverty and violence.

Responsible for engaging the interfaith community in social justice activities, and acting as a catalyst and channel of communication to or for other individuals and agencies promoting the well-being of all people in Honolulu and the State of Hawaii.

Be concerned for social and human conditions that contravene accepted ethical and moral values, such as, homeless, wages, housing, crime, violence, and poverty.

Recent Action Items: Homelessness, Civil Unions, Crime, Participating in the Forum on Economics of Jobs & Justice in the Current Economic Crisis, with economist Dr. Lawrence Bill Boyd of CLEAR (Center for Labor Education and Research, UH West Oahu).
 

Membership is open.  For more information, please contact Rev. Doug Pyle.  Thank you very much.

 

 

© 2007-2010 The Interfaith Alliance Hawai‘i.  All rights reserved.

Webmaster

Date last updated: 29 November 2010