Category: Interfaith
Embodying Compassion: a Journey of Teamwork and Patience
The men and women moved slowly past the prostrate women in her eighties. She repeated a modified sun salutation and prayer for peace several times in the aisle, even as a dozen or so latecomers passed... Read More
DivInnovations Profile 3: Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
RECONSTRUCTIONIST RABBINICAL COLLEGE In conversation with Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer, Ph.D., Director of the Department of Multifaith Studies and Initiatives, Associate Professor of Religious Studies: ... Read More
Faith and Race: A Dialogue Worth Having
Article first published in the Newsletter of the Parliament of the World’s Religions According to the Abrahamic traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Baha’i Faith, the u... Read More
So, a Christian Seminary Student Walks into a Mosque…
I went and visited a mosque a couple of weeks ago as part of a class assignment where we were supposed to visit a congregation or faith community different than our own. Where specifically we visited ... Read More
Holiness and Removing the Stumbling Block — Parashat Kedoshim
Parashat Kedoshim (Leviticus 19:1-20:27) is read this week as part of the annual Torah reading cycle in the synagogue. As is the case most years, it is read in conjunction with the parsha or Torah por... Read More
What I Learned From Elie Wiesel
Every once in a while, maybe even once in a lifetime, someone comes into your life, unexpectedly, and changes it forever. That happened to me in the Fall of 2001. By this time, I had already gone back... Read More
“Divine Immanence: A Psychodynamic Study in Women’s Experience of Goddess,” by Patricia ‘Iolana
Our spiritual and religious stories have tremendous power. When these stories centre upon our personal relationship with the Divine (known to be ineffable, yet commonly referred to as God, the Godhead... Read More
The M Word: Reclaiming Mission in the Age of Dialogue
For a long time I would cringe at the sound of the word “mission.” To me it represented the worst of the Christian tradition. I associated it with conquistadors and pushy missionaries, trying to ... Read More