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 December 17, 2006, 5:00 p.m.
"Winter's Light" is a multi-cultural, inter-faith storytelling event for the holidays. Each year, storytellers from different faith traditions will gather together to tell stories and light candles in a show of unity and hope. This inter-cultural, inter-faith event is called "WINTER'S LIGHT: Stories of Christmas/ Hanukkah/ Ramadan Kwanza /Solstice by Candlelight."
Light is a powerful religious symbol. Mid-winter, when the days are shortest and the nights the longest, is a time when many different faith traditions light candles, gather around campfires in lodges, string lights on evergreen trees and long for light to come into the nighttimes of our lives.
Professional storytellers from several faith traditions will tell their stories. In a time when people are so often divided along religious lines and there is much suspicion of other cultures, listening to each other's stories and sharing that which hold in common---a longing for peace, happiness and light---is an important and healthy thing to do.
This year "Winter's Light" will be held Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 5:00 p.m., Community Christian Church, 1701 S. College Ave., Tempe, AZ (3 blocks south of A.S.U.).
Ahmad Al-Shqeirat, Imam, Islamic Cultural Center
Dena Wilder, Sufi Storyteller
Liz Warren, Celtic Storyteller
Sri Sridharan, Hindu Storyteller 
 Phil Reller, Christian Storyteller
From delusion lead me to Truth.
From darkness lead me to Light.
From death lead me to immortality.
---Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
ch. 1, p. 3, v.28
And God said, "Let there be light:"
And there was light!
---Genesis 1:5
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
---Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1962) Ch. 11
C'mon, baby, light my fire.
---Jim Morrison (1943-71)
Mehr Licht!
More Light!
---Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, last words (1749-1832)
There was a young lady named Bright,
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
Arthur Buller, "Relativity"
(1874-1944) British botanist & mycologist
Einstein declared, toward the end of his life:
Fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to the answer to the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself. (Albert Einstein, 1951, quoted in Arthur Zajonc, Catching the Light: The Entwined Story of Light and Minds (New York: Bantam Books, 1993, p. ix)
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