This winter, the Department of Multifaith Studies and Initiatives at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College began a bi-monthly salon, Praying with Your Feet: Conversations with Spiritually Engaged Social Activists. We invite guests from different religious traditions to talk with students and faculty about their faith and their work in the world. We began with a Sufi [...]
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Praying with your Feet: RRC’s new salon
Posted in Jewish-Christian Engagement, RRC related story, Social Justice, tagged civil rights activism, multifaith, multifaith relations, peace work, progressive evangelical Christianity, religious social activists, RRC multifaith studies and initiatives on February 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
LendforPeace.Org: Penn Undergraduates Launch Interfaith Effort
Posted in Jewish- Muslim Engagement, Social Justice on February 3, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This is a good news story involving Jews, Palestinians and the Middle East. LendforPeace.org is a brand new not-for-profit Internet platform that allows individuals to make small loans to specific micro-entrepreneurs in the Palestinian Territories. Their mission is to use micro-lending to promote economic opportunity and political stability in the Middle East. At LendforPeace.org you [...]
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RRC Sponsored Interfaith Events
#February 18, "Finding God in the Other," Samir Selmonovic, Faith House Manhattan, 11:05 a.m. at RRC (for RRC community) #March 19th, "The Big Questions in Science and Religion," Keith Ward, University of Oxford, open to the public, more info at www.metanexus.net #April 1, "Jewish Education and Neuroscience," Adi Flesher, 12:30 p.m. (open to the public with reservations, email mheller@rrc.edu) #April 26, "Sacred Texts Trialogue," Lutheran Theological Seminary(open to the public, see www.Ltsp.edu/trialogue for more information) #May 6, Salon conversation, "Praying with Your Feet," Kristyn Komarnicki, editor of Prism: Evangelicals for Social Action (for RRC community)