A leading Israeli scholar who helped write Israel’s Military Code of Ethics, Professor Moshe Halbertal, has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the Goldstone Report. You can read about his views here. The Goldstone Report has been a subject of conversation in interfaith gatherings between Jews and Christians and Jews and Muslims since it was [...]
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Moshe Halbertal weighs in on Goldstone Report
Posted in Jewish- Muslim Engagement, Jewish-Christian Engagement, Middle East, tagged gaza, goldstone report, military ethics, moshe halbertal on January 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Haiti: A Philadelphia Religion Professor’s Reflections
Posted in Uncategorized on January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Professor Terry Rey, the Chairman of the Religion Department at Temple University, has close personal ties to Haiti. He recently published his reflections in a local newspaper, The Philadelphia Daily News. I have read many commentators on this issue, but Terry’s thoughts were particularly meaningful and provocative. Thank you, Terry, for taking the time to [...]
People who hate Jews…
Posted in Jewish- Muslim Engagement, Religion in America, tagged antisemitism, Eboo Patel, Gallup Poll, Islamaphobia, jewish muslim relations on January 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
….also hate Muslims. According to a recent article by Eboo Patel, a Gallup poll says as much, although it did not ask the necessary questions to establish that the reverse is also true, that people who hate Muslims also hate Jews. You can check out the Gallup poll for yourself here. Patel concludes that we [...]
“It is by the grace of God that I am here”: Future Bob Jones University Student at Interfaith Gathering
Posted in Religion in America, Youth, tagged david saperstein, Fundamentalist Christian, ifyc, interfaith youth on January 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
One of the most interesting moments for me at the Interfaith Youth Core Conference in Chicago was hearing a high school student, Levi Petrone, raise a question from the audience for a speaker, Rabbi David Saperstein. Levi said (as I recall), “I am a Fundamental(sic) Christian. Is there room for me in the interfaith movement?” [...]
Twittering in Church: What do you think?
Posted in Religion in America, new media, tagged tweeting in church, twitter on January 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Read about Pastor John Voelz of Jackson, Michigan here. Last year, Voelz was tweeting at a conference outside Nashville about ways to make the church experience more creative — ways to “make it not suck” — when suddenly it hit him: Twitter! There’s a time and place for technology, and most houses of worship still say it’s not [...]
Fitness Prescription for the Aging Brain: Multifaith Learning
Posted in Science and Religion, tagged aging brain, multifaith learning, neuroscience and religion on January 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Check out the New York Times today, especially this article on recent research on the aging brain. As we have been hearing for awhile now, the brain is plastic, and continues to have the ability to change in positive ways, even as we age. But it turns out that simply acquiring new information–knowing more “stuff”– [...]
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