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What is Proselytism to Interfaith?

What is Proselytism to Interfaith?

Posted on November 6, 2018November 10, 2018 by Wendy Webber
Recently, a couple tried to convert me to their religion—not an uncommon experience as a secular humanist. Proselytism is a topic I have spent a lot of time meditating on, as it’s one of the harde... Read More
Careful Forgiveness: Atoning with Life in the New Year

Careful Forgiveness: Atoning with Life in the New Year

Posted on October 12, 2016October 12, 2016 by Jenn Lindsay
“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.” Pablo Neruda Yom Kippur is the Jewish day of atonement between humanity and the divine. Jewish tradition dictates that atonement between h... Read More
Teaching for Tolerance

Teaching for Tolerance

Posted on January 21, 2016January 20, 2016 by Alim Fakirani
I have been an educator for quite some time. My work usually focuses on youth education, specifically with high school aged students. Through the work that I do, I’ve had the great fortune to tr... 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
Opting Out of Interfaith Dialogue as Resistance for the Right to Exist

Opting Out of Interfaith Dialogue as Resistance for the Right to Exist

Posted on September 18, 2015September 15, 2015 by Elizabeth Durant
When it comes to interfaith dialogue and cooperation, it seems that not all faiths are created equal. My community includes a Umatilla/Nez Perce/Sauk & Fox indigenous storyteller and an Ifa pries... 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
What’s “Religious” About Interreligious Dialogue?

What’s “Religious” About Interreligious Dialogue?

Posted on August 18, 2015September 2, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
Anyone who has embarked upon the study of religion immediately runs into a debate of the meaning of the very word religion. Definitions abound and debates rage about whether a general definition of re... Read More
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