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The Ties That Bond Us: Differences of Sacred Values in Interfaith Organizing

Broad-based community organizing (BBCO) is perhaps the most widely used form of political participation supported by U.S American religious institutions today. As organizing groups become more religiously diverse, however, so do the conceptions of sacred value that ground organizing in the first place. In today’s political climate in the U.S. what we hold most dear, …

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When Salafi Muslims Meet Evangelical Christians: A Hopeful Dispatch from the United States

Salafism, a modern reformist movement in Sunni Islam, is often labeled “radical Islam” or “Islamic fundamentalism” and tied to images of terrorism or hardline interpretations of Islamic law. But Matthew D. Taylor’s recent book Scripture People: Salafi Muslims in Evangelical Christians’ America offers a different lens for considering Salafism. Drawing on his own American evangelical background and …

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Reparations through an Interreligious Lens

Representatives from three congregations—Cathedral of the Incarnation, Hinenu Baltimore, and St. Matthew United Methodist Church—participated in the ICJS Congregational Leaders Fellowship and collectively established an interreligious working group that studied reparations. Through thorough examination of their respective religious backgrounds, alongside analyses of past political examples, the representatives collaboratively developed a comprehensive guide. During this panel …

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Israel and the World after October 7th: A Conversation on Jewish-Christian Relations

Since October 7th, Israelis and Jews worldwide have questioned how the Jewish state will relate to the international community. Yael Eckstein, President and CEO of The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, one of the world’s leading religious charitable organizations, has a unique perspective on Jewish-Christian relations and Israel’s role in the world. Yael, based in …

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RANKING RELIGIONS: Taxonomic Comparison in Medieval Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Thought

The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College2024 Corcoran Chair Conference Within the polemical inter-religious context of the Middle Ages, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinkers developed systematic and sophisticated ways of comparing their own faiths with those of others, including non-monotheists. Although each thinker maintained that his own community’s system of belief and practice was …

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