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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
The Politics of Difference

The Politics of Difference

Posted on March 15, 2016March 14, 2016 by Nora Zaki
Chicago celebrated St. Patrick’s Day on March 12 by dyeing the river green and having a parade. I wanted to go and enjoy the parade festivities before studying for final exams. So, I took the bus to... Read More
An Open Letter to NH Governor Maggie Hassan

An Open Letter to NH Governor Maggie Hassan

Posted on January 8, 2016January 7, 2016 by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
Dear Governor Hassan, In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris and your subsequent call to halt the process of allowing Syrian refugees to cross into our country, I write to ask for your compassi... Read More
How to win a religious debate: A step by step guide

How to win a religious debate: A step by step guide

Posted on November 10, 2015November 9, 2015 by Tom Peteet
On October 27th, dozens of students and academics filed into Sanders theatre at Harvard to hear psychologist Steven Pinker and law professor David Skeel. The event promised to be a moderated discussio... 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
A Study in Contrasts: Israel and Palestine

A Study in Contrasts: Israel and Palestine

Posted on September 10, 2015September 9, 2015 by Abigail Clauhs
Abigail recently returned from a two-week-long Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME) human rights delegation to Israel and Palestine. UUJME’s mission is “to promote peace... Read More
“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
Domestic 'Terrorism' Depends on the Perpetrator

Domestic ‘Terrorism’ Depends on the Perpetrator

Posted on July 8, 2015July 8, 2015 by Wilfredo Amr Ruiz
In the past years our country has witnessed a wave of domestic terrorist acts mainly perpetrated by white supremacists and right-wing extremists; not Islamist terrorists. Just to highlight a few of th... 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
Charleston: #BlackLivesMatter This Ramadan

Charleston: #BlackLivesMatter This Ramadan

Posted on June 19, 2015June 18, 2015 by Abigail Clauhs
I logged onto Facebook Tuesday night, about to post a “Ramadan Mubarak!” wish for all my Muslim friends. And then, scrolling down my news feed, I saw it—the news that a white man had entered a b... Read More
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