Category: Online Interreligious Events

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, …

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

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 …

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

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 …

Reparations through an Interreligious Lens Read More »

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 …

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

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 …

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

Institute for Islamic, Christian, Jewish Studies (ICJS) A Sacred Argument: Dispatches from the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Encounter is a memoir written by ICJS founding Executive Director Christopher M. Leighton, who retired in 2018. In this work, he recounts his friendship and collaboration with the late Rabbi Joel Zaiman, who was a driving force in …

A Sacred Argument: Dispatches from the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Encounter Read More »

A Book Event for Shai Held’s Judaism Is About Love The Torah contains three great love commandments: love of God, love of neighbor, and love of the stranger/sojourner.  Love of the stranger/sojourner, repeated for emphasis in both Leviticus and Deuteronomy, represents one of the Torah’s greatest moral revolutions. This event will be a dialogue between Rabbi …

Turning Suffering Into Love: The Bible’s Moral Revolution — A Dialogue between Shai Held and Stephen Pope Read More »

The Judaic Studies Department at Brooklyn College invites you to join us on Wednesday, March 27th for the Annual Frances Haidt Memorial Lecture In 2017 Charlottesville, antisemitism and anti-Black racism converged as white supremacists, in a highly choreographed and violent protest against the removal of a statue honoring a Confederate general, carried Confederate flags and chanted “Jews …

Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism, Magda Teter Read More »

As part of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning’s Jewish-Christian Lecture Series, Prof. Matthew Goff will present his lecture in Prof. Yonder Gillihan’s’ course “Early Christianity in Its Jewish Context.” This lecture is open to the public. Relatively unknown to most readers of scripture, most of 2 Esdras (also called 4 Ezra) is a Jewish apocalyptic text …

The Book of 2 Esdras: Jewish, Christian, Both, Neither Read More »