Category: Interfaith
The Passion and Ritual of the Pilgrims
[This is the second in a multi-part series on religious pilgrims. Read part 1 here.] In the last post I wrote about the experience of being part of the Catholic pilgrimage to the Basílica de Nuestra ... Read More
A Night with the Mexican Virgin – Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
[This is the first in a multi-part series on religious pilgrims.] It didn’t take very long before we saw the first signs we were close. A long train of bikers, flanked by brightly decorated vehi... Read More
Brotherly Love: Celebrating 50 Years of Nostra Aetate
The year 2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Vatican II, which reformed the way the Catholic Church relates to the modern world. In this new understanding, the Jews became the “elder brot... Read More
A Vision of Prayer for All Peoples? Moving Towards Interfaith 2.0
The sun began its descent on another beautiful day at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York as a group of twenty or so recently ordained clergy gathered in a circle on the grassy fields o... Read More
Advent, AAR, and the Diversity in the Academy
Christians around the world are knee-deep in the season of Advent. Advent is about waiting. Advent is about anticipation. Advent is about the in-breaking of God into the world as the baby Jesus –... Read More
Beautiful Resistance in Palestine
This summer, Abigail received a scholarship to join a two-week-long Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME) human rights delegation to Israel and Palestine. UUJME’s mission is... Read More
Religion in the Academy and in the Public
As naive as it may sound, I thought that I could learn more about Islamic Studies and history at university than at “Saturday” school on the weekends while at the mosque. The mosque lessons about ... Read More
Between the Gospel and Humanitarianism
The recent article by Tom Heneghan from Religion News Service about how one of the largest German Evangelical churches has decided to stop trying to convert Muslim refugees coming into Germany-... Read More