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“Stand together yet not too near together”: How Interfaith Dialogue Teaches Participants to Value Diversity
“Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart... Read More
Disrupting the Narrative: Israel and Palestine (Part II)
Abigail recently returned from a two-week-long Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME) human rights delegation to Israel and Palestine. UUJME’s mission is “to promote pea... Read More
From Religious Diversity to Religious Pluralism in the Workplace
This article is the follow-up to my previous article about religious diversity in the workplace. As fellow contributor, Jenn Lindsay, has pointed out in this article, there is a difference between rel... Read More
Disrupting the Narrative: Israel and Palestine (Part I)
Abigail recently returned from a two-week-long Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME) human rights delegation to Israel and Palestine. UUJME’s mission is “to promote pea... Read More
The Mechanics of Personal Transformation via Interfaith Dialogue
My research on interfaith dialogue is driven by questions about people’s individual capacities for transformation and cohabitation with other humans. In previous articles (here and here) I demonstra... Read More
Humanism, Race, and Why NonHumanists Should Care
I am a white, female, humanist writing today about what I have seen and heard about the racial climate in humanism (and its relatives: atheism, skepticism, freethought, etc.). “Racial climate” all... Read More
Inter-religious Dialogue with (Non?)Religious Others
A few weeks ago I planned and celebrated a wedding ceremony for a young Gen X couple, Neil and Stephanie. The couple and the other Gen Xers, Millenials and few Boomers who attended would certainly sel... Read More
Resilient Space and the Necessity of Discomfort
“The idea of safe space is a Utopian ideal.” — Laurie Patton, President of Middlebury College Despite how often we hear and use the phrase “safe space” in interfaith work... Read More
Working T’shuvah – What is Forgiveness?
I grew up in a non-religious family, and then became Christian as a teenager, and then converted again to Judaism as an adult. I learned as a teen that forgiveness is freely and completely given. It i... Read More