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Stop Sympathizing and Start Supporting: A Close Look at What Moves us to Advocacy, Part 2

Stop Sympathizing and Start Supporting: A Close Look at What Moves us to Advocacy, Part 2

Posted on June 6, 2016May 31, 2016 by Haley Feuerbacher
If you read Part 1 of this article, you have become acquainted with the members of the Rural Women’s Movement, many of them unmarried mothers who participate in my research project on the strugg... Read More
Review of Leonard Swidler's "Dialogue for Interreligious Understanding: Strategies for the Transformation of Culture-Shaping Institutions" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014). 212 pages. $37.00.

Review of Leonard Swidler’s “Dialogue for Interreligious Understanding: Strategies for the Transformation of Culture-Shaping Institutions” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014). 212 pages. $37.00.

Posted on May 16, 2016May 15, 2016 by Hans Gustafson
This review first appeared on catholicbooksreview.org on May 5, 2016. Leonard Swidler draws on his immense (half-century-plus-years’ worth of) experience and wisdom in interreligious, intercultura... Read More
Why I'm a Christian Committed to Interfaith Work

Why I’m a Christian Committed to Interfaith Work

Posted on May 2, 2016May 1, 2016 by Daniel José Camacho
Editorial Director’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
Christians, Jews, and Co-Officiation

Christians, Jews, and Co-Officiation

Posted on March 8, 2016March 7, 2016 by Emily Cohen
We sat around tables arranged in a rectangle. The participants were future rabbis and Christian ministers– students from various Philadelphia seminaries– and their teachers. The topic was ... Read More
Beyoncé, Black Power & the White Church

Beyoncé, Black Power & the White Church

Posted on February 10, 2016February 9, 2016 by Elizabeth Durant
Preparing a sermon recently as a guest preacher to a white christian congregation, I turned to the African-American lectionary for inspiration. (In Christian tradition, the lectionary assigns readings... Read More
Ideas for Research On Interfaith Couples and Families

Ideas for Research On Interfaith Couples and Families

Posted on September 21, 2015September 20, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
I conducted anthropological research on interfaith couples and marriages in Indonesia in 2010, and have continued to investigate interfaith dialogue practices, religious diversity management and inter... Read More
One of These Jews Is Not Like the Others: A Progressive Jew at an Orthodox Yom Kippur

One of These Jews Is Not Like the Others: A Progressive Jew at an Orthodox Yom Kippur

Posted on September 17, 2015September 18, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
It was raining at dusk. I decided not to ride my bike to the progressive Yom Kippur service on the Boston University campus. If I rode my bike, I would get too thirsty coming home and I wouldn’t ke... Read More
“Right View” and Interfaith Dialogue

“Right View” and Interfaith Dialogue

Posted on September 3, 2015September 7, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
One “fold” on the Buddhist Noble Eightfold Path toward enlightenment is Right View. “Right view” is the skill of dissolving interpretations in favor of drawing closer to the reality of the wor... Read More
“Stand together yet not too near together”: How Interfaith Dialogue Teaches Participants to Value Diversity

“Stand together yet not too near together”: How Interfaith Dialogue Teaches Participants to Value Diversity

Posted on August 31, 2015May 31, 2016 by Jenn Lindsay
“Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart... Read More
The Mechanics of Personal Transformation via Interfaith Dialogue

The Mechanics of Personal Transformation via Interfaith Dialogue

Posted on August 25, 2015August 26, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
My research on interfaith dialogue is driven by questions about people’s individual capacities for transformation and cohabitation with other humans. In previous articles (here and here) I demonstra... Read More
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