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On Irreconcilable Differences: My Interreligious Dialogue with Mormon Missionaries

On Irreconcilable Differences: My Interreligious Dialogue with Mormon Missionaries

Posted on June 16, 2015June 15, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
Since I’m conducting field research on interfaith dialogue in Rome, I thought it would be an important part of my participant-observation to embark upon a dialogue. I met some Mormon sisters conduct... Read More
Pluralismo Vivo: The Interfaith Roads of Rome

Pluralismo Vivo: The Interfaith Roads of Rome

Posted on June 12, 2015June 15, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
It’s not easy to find clear examples of “interreligious violence” in Rome. The closest thing Rome suffers to religious violence are distant shrieks from ISIS across the Mediterranean Sea... Read More
Religious Literacy for a Fearful and Violent World

Religious Literacy for a Fearful and Violent World

Posted on May 26, 2015May 26, 2015 by Esther Boyd
In February, I had the great pleasure of co-presenting a workshop at the DC Interfaith Leaders Summit with Amber Hacker, the Alumni Director for Interfaith Youth Core. In our workshop we encouraged at... Read More
What Can Interfaith Dialogue Really Do? Part 3 of 3

What Can Interfaith Dialogue Really Do? Part 3 of 3

Posted on May 19, 2015May 18, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
Read Part I here, and Part II here. When I ate lunch with the rabbi he inveighed against interfaith dialogue and its inability to reach or transform the minds of those who are closed to dialogue. He s... Read More
What Can Interfaith Dialogue Really Do? Part 2 of 3

What Can Interfaith Dialogue Really Do? Part 2 of 3

Posted on May 14, 2015May 13, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
Read Part I here. At lunch after Purim, I heard the rabbi criticize interfaith projects for being “just another religious group.” I reflected on the irony of a religious clergy person dismissing t... Read More
Interfaith Dialogue and Identity Formation

Interfaith Dialogue and Identity Formation

Posted on May 14, 2015May 13, 2015 by Eli Lieberman
Interfaith dialogue is of increasing importance on a daily basis in our current international social, political and economic order. This can be seen in the current interfaith groups that are gathering... Read More
What Can Interfaith Dialogue Really Do? Part 1 of 3

What Can Interfaith Dialogue Really Do? Part 1 of 3

Posted on May 12, 2015May 11, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
After the most recent Purim morning service at my synagogue, I ate lunch with the rabbi. He told me he thinks interreligious dialogue is an in-group hobby, that interfaith groups become cliques. He fe... Read More
The Farm Wagon and the Apple: Thoughts and Reflections on Being Mennonite

The Farm Wagon and the Apple: Thoughts and Reflections on Being Mennonite

Posted on May 11, 2015May 10, 2015 by Deborah Ruth Ferber
Every time I get off the train, drive 45 minutes south of the nearest city, and breathe in the fresh and familiar farm air, I am reminded of a very vital piece of my past. A part that is missing and y... Read More
Reflections on Scapegoating

Reflections on Scapegoating

Posted on May 11, 2015May 11, 2015 by State of Formation
We are pleased to be sharing, over the coming weeks, a series of four reflection pieces on the State of Formation visit to the United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum this spring. Each one is a collab... Read More
Choosing Sides in Baltimore

Choosing Sides in Baltimore

Posted on April 30, 2015April 30, 2015 by Esther Boyd
Like so many cities and communities over the past year that have come to our national attention, Baltimore is suffering. But what is happening on the streets of Baltimore is different from what is be... Read More
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State of Formation, founded as an offshoot of the Journal of Interreligious Studies (JIRS), is a program of the Betty Ann Greenbaum Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership at Hebrew College and Boston University School of Theology.

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