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What Exactly is “Mutual Recognition”?

Posted on July 31, 2015August 5, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay

The construct of “mutual recognition” is circulated frequently in the interfaith society: nearly every organization I approach as an ethnographic researcher names it as a primary goal. But... Read More

Interfaith Winter Reading

Posted on January 8, 2014January 17, 2014 by Susan Butterworth

I am in love with every Church and Mosque and Temple and any kind of Shrine Because I know it is there that people say the different names of the one God. — Hafiz As a seminarian d... Read More

On Memories in Aleppo, or Memories of Kindness

Posted on August 19, 2013August 16, 2013 by Elise Alexander

When I first entered college in Washington, DC, I was ecstatic about the many opportunities for interfaith encounters and activities. Coming from a comparatively homogenous city in Georgia, the idea o... Read More

Meditation on the Deaths of Three Students

Posted on May 18, 2012May 19, 2012 by Br. Larry Whitney

Three Boston University students died on Saturday. It was Saturday in New Zealand, anyway. It was still Friday here in Boston. They were going out into the countryside to hike one of the most sc... Read More