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The Difference Between Religious Diversity and Religious Pluralism

Posted on August 5, 2015August 4, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay

In a previous article I explored how “choice and safety” are the key ingredients in converting de facto religious diversity into religious pluralism, an environment more conducive to transformativ... Read More

Religious Diversity in the Workplace

Posted on July 28, 2015July 27, 2015 by Eli Lieberman

The issue of religious diversity in the workplace is becoming a fact of life, as people of different traditions are working more closely together. The question of how to adjust to a workplace that is ... Read More

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

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

The Immigration Office

Posted on July 24, 2014July 24, 2014 by Jenn Lindsay

The Ufficio di Immigrazione of Rome is in a remote location, so remote that it feels like a final test of the long journey of immigrants to Italy. One has to make their way to Termini, Rome’s centra... Read More

A synagogue, church, and mosque under one roof: Berlin’s pluralistic model

Posted on June 27, 2014July 2, 2014 by Dina Malki

Berlin recently announced a project of the “House of One”, a building that includes a synagogue, a church, and a mosque under one roof. Furthermore, the building will include a space in the middle... Read More

Should Religion Be Hard?: A Response to Tom Ehrich

Posted on February 5, 2014February 5, 2014 by Joseph Paille

Last month, Tom Ehrich published an article in the Washington Post asking whether communities of faith were making religion too hard. His conclusion? Yes. Ehrich concedes that some aspects of faith ar... Read More

Truly Gorgeous, Genuinely Unique Diversity

Posted on August 20, 2013August 19, 2013 by Katelynn Carver

I grew up between soybean fields and corn stalks, two pet cows to my name and a gaggle of barn cats. I learned to write my name as a child for the sole purpose of getting a library card, and when my m... Read More

Politics and the Book of Mormon

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Jason Kerr

Cross-posted from Historicisms. One of the more uncomfortable aspects of the “Mormon Moment” for me was seeing LDS scripture deployed against the candidate on whose behalf I chose to exerc... Read More

The Art of Interfaith Homiletics?

Posted on August 25, 2012August 25, 2012 by Nicolas Cable

This summer, I had the honor of preaching a sermon on interfaith engagement to eight different Unitarian Universalist congregations in Illinois and Wisconsin. The sermon was entitled, “Acts of Faith... Read More