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Tag: Action

Turning Hope into Action

Turning Hope into Action

Posted on October 21, 2018 by Wendy Webber
Sometimes I’m not sure if I’m an optimist or a pessimist. Almost daily I am disappointed in humanity. I also am witness to acts of love and empathy that give me faith in humanity on a daily basis.... Read More
Ethics in the Shadow of Gethsemane

Ethics in the Shadow of Gethsemane

Posted on April 20, 2015April 19, 2015 by Dorie Goehring
Every year at Harvard Divinity School, there is an annual competition for 2nd and 3rd year MDiv students called the Billings Preaching Competition. Being raised Catholic, preaching was never really a ... Read More
Tragedy: A Quaker and an Anthropologist’s Response

Tragedy: A Quaker and an Anthropologist’s Response

Posted on April 18, 2013April 18, 2013 by Joseph McLendon
How does your faith or ethical tradition inform your response to tragedies? In the wake of the devastating blasts in Boston, one Twitter user, Mike_FTW, has gained fame for stating:   In times o... Read More
Experiencing Islam: An Interview with Homayra Ziad, PhD

Experiencing Islam: An Interview with Homayra Ziad, PhD

Posted on February 13, 2013February 14, 2013 by Journal of Inter-Religious Studies
In January, Hebrew College and Andover Newton Theological School offered for the first time a joint winter seminar on Islam for rabbinical, cantorial and ministerial students. This one-week intensive ... Read More
Moving from Interfaith Dialogue to Multifaith Action

Moving from Interfaith Dialogue to Multifaith Action

Posted on February 4, 2013February 4, 2013 by Amjad Saleem
Next week, the international community will be marking World Interfaith Harmony Week   designated by the United Nations to occur annually in the first full week of February where there will be a cha... Read More
How Do You #Keep the Sabbath?

How Do You #Keep the Sabbath?

Posted on November 14, 2012November 13, 2012 by Alasdair Ekpenyong
–“The Pharisees said, This man is not from #God, because He does not keep the #Sabbath” -#John 9:16 It was a Sunday morning in April when a man named Tagg uploaded a picture of his... Read More
An Invitation to Us All: The Coalition of Immokalee Worker’s Fast for Fair Food

An Invitation to Us All: The Coalition of Immokalee Worker’s Fast for Fair Food

Posted on March 6, 2012March 6, 2012 by Arielle Rosenberg
Fasting when justice is absent, as with the CIW's Fast for Fair Food, provides individual bodies a time to change our rhythms, learn new cycles, to find sustenance in each other when we are unable or ... Read More
Religion, Reality, and Responsibility

Religion, Reality, and Responsibility

Posted on October 5, 2011October 5, 2011 by Andy Cook
Candles glimmer on the table and challah passes from hand to hand, the loaf dwindles and smiles grow, as the year of 5771 fades away and the new year brightens in our midst. I look back on a year that... Read More
Torah Games? Bringing Torah to Life Through Game Design

Torah Games? Bringing Torah to Life Through Game Design

Posted on September 28, 2011September 25, 2011 by Joshua Stanton
For many Jews, the Torah seems inaccessible. It is distant historically, culturally and linguistically. The Biblical figures seem far removed and unapproachable and the scenes and vignettes do not see... Read More

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