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May 2018 - Who Isn't at the Interfaith Table?

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Exploring Interreligious Relations and Interfaith Culture

May 15, 2018

Who Isn't at the interfaith table?

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‘The Fierce Urgency of Now’
‘The Fierce Urgency of Now’

by Bud Heckman

A question for you: Why isn’t the movement for interfaith cooperation seen and taken as seriously and central in our societies as are other movements for social justice and the common good, such as race, gender, abilities, the environment, and so on?

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Missing Voices
Missing Voices

by Marcus Braybrooke

After the inauguration of the Interreligious Association for Peace and Development in Vienna last month, I visited the Mauthausen Concentration Camp.

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Religion’s Response to Refugees
Religion’s Response to Refugees

by Anashwara Ashok

Many factors affect the decisions being taken on the fate of refugees, but one factor is often overlooked: the historical relationship between religion and refugees.

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Hearing the Interfaith Voices Least Often Heard
Hearing the Interfaith Voices Least Often Heard

by Don Frew

I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard someone in a group say “We even have a Witch” and point to me to emphasize how inclusive they are. So, in terms of diversity, I occupy a place at one extreme end of the interfaith spectrum.

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Enlarging the Interfaith Tent
Enlarging the Interfaith Tent

by Hans Gustafson

Despite an ever-widening door to the growing tent of interreligious engagement, there remains work to do. Interreligious studies in the academy, as well as the interfaith movement in the wider community, have blossomed in the West over the last few decades.

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Finding Faith, Then Interfaith
Finding Faith, Then Interfaith

by Ruth Broyde Sharone

Her lineage offers no clues. Martha Alice Perkins was born in La Fayette, Indiana in 1947, the daughter of a state policeman and devoted church-going Methodist mother, as well as the granddaughter of a member of the local Ku Klux Klan.

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A Visit to the Yánesha, Indigenous Peoples of Central Peru
A Visit to the Yánesha, Indigenous Peoples of Central Peru

by Lyla June Johnston

The sky was black and beautiful. The stars shone above like glistening guardians of the night. Guided only by fire light, we scaled the Amazonian hillside.

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SabangMerauke – Setting the Interfaith Table in Indonesia
SabangMerauke – Setting the Interfaith Table in Indonesia

by Vicki Garlock

SabangMerauke, a non-profit organization in Indonesia, offers a loving, yet straightforward antidote to the fear that sometimes finds its way into human hearts and minds. Their message?  Get to know one another!

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California Interfaith Connections Growing
California Interfaith Connections Growing

by Stephen Albert

Certain things in life are no-brainers. In Jim Croce’s 1972 song “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim,” he told us: “You don't tug on superman's cape, You don't spit into the wind, You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger, And you don't mess around with Jim.”

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The Man Behind The Way: Lao Tzu & Daoist Spirituality
The Man Behind The Way: Lao Tzu & Daoist Spirituality

by Stephen Hill

Little is truly known about the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, the guiding figure in Daoism (also translated as Taoism), which is still a popular spiritual practice.

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Review: The Life of Yogananda by Philip Goldberg
Review: The Life of Yogananda by Philip Goldberg

by Paul Chaffee

The religions of India – Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism – are less familiar and stranger to most Americans than the Abrahamic religions, which have dominated America since Columbus.

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Who Isn't at the Table?
Who Isn't at the Table?

by Paul Chaffee, Editor

“Who isn’t at the table yet, who isn’t here?” P. Gerard O’Rourke’s voice, a gruff and gentle Irish brogue, asked the question each month at the start of interfaith board meetings.

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Interfaith News Roundup - May 2018
Interfaith News Roundup - May 2018

Tragic Report – Donald Trump and the Religious Right – Provocative Report – Interfaith Achievements – Working Together in the Interfaith Movement

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