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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
Pokeakh Ivrim: Opening Our Minds to New Forms of Inclusion
This post originally appeared on Ritualwell. Typically when we think of access in general and in Jewish community specifically, we first default to thinking about physical access—is the bimah acce... 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
Lighting up the Darkness
Is there even daylight in December? There are times when it feels like the sun barely rises before it sets again. Darkness can be beautiful in the countryside, when one can look up and see stars dotti... Read More
Tearing Down Christmas Lights: The Reason for the Season
Last Wednesday, protesters in downtown Chicago started pulling lights off the city’s newly-lit Christmas tree. Marching to decry the death of Laquan McDonald at the hands of the police, they broke t... 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
Statues Will Never Be Enough
It was the summer of 2012. I was nineteen years old, working as an intern in Washington, DC—that swamp of politics, and humidity, and the slow-moving Potomac. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial ha... Read More