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How Do We Tolerate the Intolerant?

How Do We Tolerate the Intolerant?

Posted on April 23, 2015April 24, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
What do tolerant people do with the intolerant? We tolerate them. We ignore them. We insult them. We try to change them:        By explaining.        By demonstrating.        By oppressin... Read More
A Call to Prayer; A Call to Interfaith

A Call to Prayer; A Call to Interfaith

Posted on April 16, 2015April 18, 2015 by State of Formation
Every morning for fourteen months the call to prayer woke me before the sun had climbed over the horizon. Every day, five times a day, the call to prayer rang out in Sirakoro where I was serving as... Read More
The Work Compels Us to Interfaith

The Work Compels Us to Interfaith

Posted on April 8, 2015April 8, 2015 by Grace Patterson
Managing Editor’s note: all Contributing Scholars begin writing by answering the following question as their first post: Why are you committed to building relationships with those from different... Read More
Atheist Diversity: Don't Define Me By What I'm Not

Atheist Diversity: Don’t Define Me By What I’m Not

Posted on March 30, 2015March 29, 2015 by Esther Boyd
Atheists are having a big week in the news. Data analysts reported that the atheist subreddit is the third most toxic group on Reddit, coming in behind a men’s rights group and followers of a ra... Read More
Relationship, Integrity, and the Religious Other

Relationship, Integrity, and the Religious Other

Posted on March 13, 2015March 12, 2015 by Guest Post
As far back as I can remember, I have been curious about the beliefs of the religious Other. I can recall instances at age 7 or 8 in grocery stores asking men wearing the kippah what they believed hap... Read More
An Audience with Pope Francis—Dispatch from Rome

An Audience with Pope Francis—Dispatch from Rome

Posted on February 3, 2015February 2, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
We were on our way to meet Pope Francis. We—the participants in the 50th anniversary meeting of the Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies—departed together from the Urbaniana campus a... Read More
What Nourishes Your Activism? Reflections on Interfaith Sustenance for Social Change

What Nourishes Your Activism? Reflections on Interfaith Sustenance for Social Change

Posted on January 22, 2015January 26, 2015 by Elizabeth Durant
I stood in the pouring rain, my numb fingers frantically pressing the buttons on the intercom box of the brick building where my spiritual director has her office. Sloshing my way through that Saturda... Read More
Sanctuary for Immigrants By Michael Ramberg

Sanctuary for Immigrants By Michael Ramberg

Posted on December 1, 2014November 30, 2014 by Guest Post
I have served as campus rabbi at Ursinus College for just four months but I already have been fortunate to work with lots of incredible students committed to repairing the world. Some of them have con... Read More
"There is no such thing as Palestine!”--Dispatch from Palestine

“There is no such thing as Palestine!”–Dispatch from Palestine

Posted on November 28, 2014November 26, 2014 by Jenn Lindsay
“You can’t teach me anything about Europeans,” once commented the deputy mayor of Jerusalem. Europeans had killed his father. “You can’t teach me anything about Palestinians.” Palestinians... Read More
Reflecting on State of Formation's Workshop at the 2014 American Academy of Religion

Reflecting on State of Formation’s Workshop at the 2014 American Academy of Religion

Posted on November 25, 2014November 25, 2014 by Stephanie Varnon-Hughes
Mark Oppenheimer: “I had a strong sense of calling to be a religion journalist.” Haley Feuerbacher: “I found I needed the type of work done by State of Formation, and when I needed it the most, ... 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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