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“50 Years Since Nostra Aetate" with The International Council of Christians and Jews

“50 Years Since Nostra Aetate” with The International Council of Christians and Jews

Posted on July 24, 2015July 24, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
“Jews are non-Christian in a way that other religions are not.” Meredeth Banki, speaker at the International Council of Christians and Jews, said this when speaking about her experience as part of... Read More
On Taking a Selfie with Pope Francis

On Taking a Selfie with Pope Francis

Posted on July 13, 2015July 13, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
Recently I attended an audience with Pope Francis with the International Council of Christians and Jews. It was my second audience, as I had also gained access to the Vatican’s elaborate reception r... Read More
Methodological Challenges to Measuring Transformation

Methodological Challenges to Measuring Transformation

Posted on July 7, 2015July 8, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
When I set out on my dissertation research, my main question was whether and how interfaith dialogue functions to transform people. I had a hypothesis that people do interfaith dialogue because when d... Read More
Choice and Safety: Required Ingredients for Interfaith Progress

Choice and Safety: Required Ingredients for Interfaith Progress

Posted on July 2, 2015July 1, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
Classic “contact theory” predicts that diverse societies automatically bring about tolerance. I argued against this idea here when I discussed how proximity generally exacerbates the anxiety of di... Read More
Generalizations Are Never Defensible. Or Is This an Indefensible Generalization?

Generalizations Are Never Defensible. Or Is This an Indefensible Generalization?

Posted on July 1, 2015June 30, 2015 by Wendy Webber
Figuring out how to talk about religion, especially in boundary crossing contexts, can be a struggle. Isn’t that part of what we are trying to do at State of Formation–figure out the how of in... Read More
Interfaith Dialogue with Those Who Belong to Exclusivistic, Literalistic Religions

Interfaith Dialogue with Those Who Belong to Exclusivistic, Literalistic Religions

Posted on June 29, 2015June 26, 2015 by Jared Pfost
When I read Jenn Lindsay’s recent State of Formation blog post entitled “On Irreconcilable Differences: My Interreligious Dialogue with Mormon Missionaries” I was immediately intrigu... Read More
What Is the Unity of “Unity in Diversity”?

What Is the Unity of “Unity in Diversity”?

Posted on June 26, 2015June 25, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
Notwithstanding the prizing of diversity, there IS some unified bottom line to interfaith dialogue. Nonviolent behavior is the basis for “unity in diversity.” Behavior is a category about which a... Read More
Romantic Distance vs. Vexing Proximity: the difficulty of real up-close interfaith encounters

Romantic Distance vs. Vexing Proximity: the difficulty of real up-close interfaith encounters

Posted on June 22, 2015November 12, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
My research on interreligious dialogue and engagement has reinforced an old cliché: absence makes the heart grow fonder. When two people are distant from each other, it is easy to idealize each other... 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
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
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