More than 70 people gathered at Christus Victor Lutheran Church on Monday night, Nov. 24, as the Interfaith Alliance brought different faith traditions together for its annual Thanksgiving service.

The service brought together Jewish, Unitarian Universalist, Buddhist, Bahá’í, Sikh, Christian, Muslim and Hindu representatives, each offering messages of unity. Rabbi Ariel Boxman, director of lifelong learning at Temple Shalom, opened the evening with a reflection on compassion.

“I recognize the divine spark that you carry tonight,” Boxman said. “As we gather from different faiths and different stories, we affirm a shared truth that all people are beloved by God… May this teaching inspire us to look at each other with kindness, to lift one another up and to recognize the sacred worth in eve

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