RECONSTRUCTIONIST RABBINICAL COLLEGE In conversation with Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer, Ph.D., Director of the Department of Multifaith Studies and Initiatives, Associate Professor of Religious Studies: For more than twenty years, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) has recognized the need for Jewish leaders to understand other religious traditions and has required its students to engage in multifaith [...]
As far as I can remember, I’ve always looked different. In elementary school, my classmates called me a girl, a genie, and Aladdin. In middle school, I was a raghead, a diaperhead, and Sadam Hussein. And in high school, some kids were convinced that I was Osama bin Laden. These sorts of challenges come with [...]
Last Wednesday night’s presidential debate saw Socialist hopeful Francois Hollande pitted against incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy on key points of the political agenda including nuclear energy, the relationship with Europe and the economy. Hollande has marketed himself as the candidate of ”change,” the central concept in his slogan and the leitmotif of his speeches, banking [...]
CeCe’s story is a particular story, a story of one woman living in a society with a long legacy of violence against women, violence against people of color, violence against queers, who fought back in when confronted with hate speech. CeCe’s story is also a vertical protrusion, emerging out of the horizontal smoothness of our society’s narrative. What if we, individuals who buy-in every day to the legal narrative of this nation, who integrate ourselves into the social and legal fabric of our communities, were to collide with CeCe’s story? What possibilities and new paradigms would we discover by the next morning’s light?
Article first published in the Newsletter of the Parliament of the World’s Religions According to the Abrahamic traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Baha’i Faith, the universe itself was spoken into being. This offers a fitting metaphor for the promise of interreligious dialogue, the promise of a new creation. Like the speaking into being [...]
On May 8th, North Carolina voters will cast their ballots on a proposed amendment to the constitution that reads like this: “Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State. This section does not prohibit a private party from entering into contracts [...]
Practical Matters is excited to announce the release of its latest issue, “Violence & Peace” (Issue 5, Spring 2012). This issue brings together scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners to provide readers with a rich array of thought and practice on the question of how we may better understand the intersections between religion, violence, and peace. It features two [...]
State of Formation is a forum for emerging religious and ethical leaders. Founded by the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue, it is run in partnership with Hebrew College and Andover Newton and in collaboration with the Parliament of the World’s Religions.
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