Tree of Life Interfaith Temple
Our Beliefs
Embracing Spirituality and Learning
Tree of Life Interfaith Temple is dedicated to embracing spirituality and promoting learning. Our mission is to provide a welcoming space for individuals from all walks of life to explore and deepen their understanding of different faith traditions. We believe in the power of community, love, and understanding to create positive change in the world.
Our Mission
Through worship, community service and, education, embracing all faith traditions, The Tree of Life Interfaith Temple cultivates understanding to unite all spiritual and religious traditions and aspires to breathe Life, Light and Healing out into our world.
Our Vision
The Tree of Life Interfaith Temple aspires to be an inclusive community where each individual and all faith traditions are celebrated as unique expressions of the One Divine Truth.
Our History
Journey of Togetherness
The tree of Life Interfaith Temple began officially in 2010 as a church to ordain the graduates of our seminary program. However, the seed for the Temple was planted many years earlier by our founder.
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Our Founder
Rev. Dr. Stephanie Rutt is our Founding Minister, the director of the Tree of Life School for Sacred Living, and creator of the Tree of Life Interfaith Seminary. Through the School for Sacred Living she has offered numerous sacred studies courses, classes and workshops locally as well as to national conferences sponsored by World AWAKE (formally The World Alliance of Interfaith Clergy) and the Haden Institute. She has appeared on the TEDx stage and is the author of six books including, most recently, her memoir. All of her work seeks to embody unity within diversity, reveal how the great spiritual truths show up everywhere in daily experience, and to awaken an unchecked ecstatic cry for the One called by many names.
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Our Leadership Council
Journey of Togetherness
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Tree of Life Interfaith Temple is run by a volunteer Leadership Council chaired by an elected Presiding Minister.
Rev. Ahjan Grossman, Presiding Minister
Rev. Dr. Kathleen Brock, Associate Minister
Rev. Linda Goodman, Treasurer
Alexis Eaton, Secretary
Cathy Parker, Technology
Honorary Member: Rev. Dr. Stephanie Rutt
Through experiencing spiritual practices
from a variety of faith traditions,
many of us at Tree of Life Interfaith Temple
have come to believe in the following statements:
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The Tree of Life Interfaith Temple, Inc., is a non-denominational church, formed as a nonprofit corporation in the State of New Hampshire in September of 2009 and received 501(c)(3) status under the Internal Revenue Code in June of 2010. The three-fold purpose for the formation of the church is to provide a place of worship, to offer educational and experiential programs, and to ordain and oversee interfaith ministers as graduated from The Tree of Life Interfaith Seminary. We are a community of ordinary people forging the extra-ordinary mission to create a place where we may practice truly seeing the Divine within all peoples of all religions.