Category: Interfaith
We Are Brothers: Deepening the Conversation between American Jews and American Muslims
The appointment of Bob Silverman by the American Jewish Committee as the first official Jewish ambassador to the American Muslim community, as reported here by Lauren Markoe of the Religion News Servi... Read More
Wedding Cakes and Religious Pluralism
One of the first religious experiences I had as a teenager seeking a spiritual teenager was attending a Reform Jewish temple in St. Joseph, Missouri. The temple’s members were mainly elderly people,... Read More
The World Humanitarian Summit: Rethinking the Role of Faith in Humanitarian Action
From the 23-24th of May, Istanbul will see the first ever World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) convened by the UN Secretary General. The summit is unique in the sense that it will see a space being creat... Read More
Reading: It’s Good For Interfaith
My interfaith activism was more than a decade old when I embarked upon a seemingly new career: fiction writing. From my perspective this was an extension of my non-fiction and technical writing: the e... Read More
Review of Leonard Swidler’s “Dialogue for Interreligious Understanding: Strategies for the Transformation of Culture-Shaping Institutions” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014). 212 pages. $37.00.
This review first appeared on catholicbooksreview.org on May 5, 2016. Leonard Swidler draws on his immense (half-century-plus-years’ worth of) experience and wisdom in interreligious, intercultura... Read More
“No really, what would you like us to do?”
When the folks who’ve been doing interfaith and other nonprofit work for decades longer than me look to me to say, so “what do you want us to do?” “What?” I thought. “No really, what would... Read More
Seeking Diverse Voices in Interfaith Studies
There are incredibly exciting strides being made in the field of Interfaith Studies. We are seeing more and more campuses engaging with interfaith ideas and learning outcomes in the classroom, in addi... Read More
Observing the Masters of Interfaith Engagement
It can be challenging intellectual work to take “terms of art” coined in one’s religious and spiritual tradition, time, culture, and language, and re-interpret, reframe, and disseminate the spir... Read More