I hear it in almost every congregation I visit: “We’re not sure it’s our role to get involved in advocating on issues. You know, separation of church and state.” But is that what our religious...Read More
The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue presents its Call for Submissions for Issue 9: Women, Feminism, and Inter-Religious Dialogue Women have played pivotal roles in transforming communities and co...Read More
A surprising amount of press leading up to the tenth anniversary commemorations of September 11th has been negative. Among the starker headlines, the Religion News Service released an article suggesti...Read More
Madhvācārya, the 13th century propounder of dualism, exemplifies a prophet whose prophetic witness was enacted in a kairos, which demanded his dualist response. The school of Vedānta that he founde...Read More
I am on the planning committee of the International Political Camp at Agape Centro Ecumenico in the Italian Alps. Because I am always at a loss to describe exactly what Agape is to the uninitiated—a...Read More
By Amjad Saleem of the Cordoba Foundation The riots that have engulfed London and other major cities in the United Kingdom over the last week are finally receding in intensity but in the wake of the h...Read More
I started bicycle commuting for my health. I quickly realized that biking around in the city of Boston is a huge threat to my health. I live in the quaint flowery suburb of Jamaica Plain. I bike to my...Read More
This layering of historical events onto a single day of mourning invites us to add our own personal losses to the sea of sadness and to have our pain held by our community. Channeling our imaginings o...Read More
Contrary to common assumptions, many Jewish and Muslim Americans enjoy warm relations. Yet we are only beginning to understand how and why this is so. A Gallup report released last week goes a long wa...Read More
As we enter the second week of Ramadan, hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world continue to fast as a prescribed spiritual practice in the Islamic faith tradition. Last year, as a part of an ...Read More