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Room at the Table

Posted in Jewish-Christian Engagement, RRC related story, Religion in America, Sermons and Words of Torah, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I was  pleased to be able to attend the conference in April sponsored by Andover Newton Theological School and Hebrew College Rabbinical School, “Educating Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Leaders for Service in a Multi-Religious World: The American Seminary Context.” Like my colleague Nancy, who blogged about the experience below, I came away impressed and inspired, [...]

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RRC Grad Teaching Won Buddhist Ministers-in-Training

Posted in Eastern Religions, RRC related story, Religion in America, tagged , , on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Rabbi Goldie Milgram, a graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, has been helping out at the Won Institute, just around the corner from RRC in suburban Philadelphia. Several years ago, the dean of the school called our Department of Multifaith Studies seeking a professor who could teach homiletics to her seminary students, Koreans newly arrived [...]

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In the Wake of an Earthquake: An Interfaith Encounter

Posted in Jewish-Christian Engagement, RRC related story, tagged , , on February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

RRC student Leslie Hilgeman just published an op ed in the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent about a recent experience  reaching out to  staff members from Haiti at the Jewish senior residence where she serves as a student chaplain. You can read it here. Hilgeman’s  piece tells a powerful story of  how caring human encounter can transcend [...]

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Good without God

Posted in RRC related story, Religion in America, tagged , , on December 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Greg Epstein, the Humanist chaplain at Harvard, whom RRC sponsored to speak in November, gave an interview to Terry Gross on Fresh Air this week. You can read about it and listen to it here.

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Good News from the Battlefield

Posted in RRC related story, Religion in America, Science and Religion, tagged , , , , , on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Are you as tired as I am of the  war of words  between the “crusading atheists” and the “defenders of the faith” or, at least, of the idea of faith? At first, I found it engaging to read Richard Dawkins,  Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and their ilk, but I  soon grew tired of their arrogance. [...]

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