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The Charter for Compassion: Karen Armstrong et al. going global with the Golden Rule

August 3rd · No Comments · Interfaith

Inspiring people to think differently about religion: “The Charter will show that the voice of negativity and violence so often associated with religion is the minority and that the voice of compassion is the majority.” Here’s the kind of email I love to receive — and share. Please keep ’em coming: “I was part of […]

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Airport chapels offer haven to more faiths — washingtonpost.com

July 30th · No Comments · Interfaith

“The nation’s roughly 34 airports with chapels cater to a mixed community with a changing range of faith needs, according to the Rev. John A. Jamnicky, former chaplain of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and a 20-year veteran of travel ministry.” “The nation’s roughly 34 airports with chapels cater to a mixed community with a changing […]

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How people of faith (or claiming no particular faith) can learn from one another: Exhibit #7,032,009

July 25th · 1 Comment · Chiara Lubich, Christian, Focolare, Imam W. Deen Mohammed, Interfaith, Jesus, Muhammad

“We need to connect more with the history and the spirit of our brothers and sisters that preceded us in faith. Yes, I’m talking about the Christians. “Why do you think Imam Mohammed wanted us to have a relationship —wants us to have a relationship with the Focolare? I know he wants us and wanted […]

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President Obama’s Interfaith Message in Cairo…

July 3rd · No Comments · As salaam alaikum, Barack Obama, Cairo, Christian, Dress, Enlightenment, Extremism, Holocaust, Interfaith, Kenya, Ku Klux Klan, Liberalism, Muslim, Quran, Race, Renaissance, Slavery, The Coastal Star, The Huffington Post, Women

this month’s InterFaith21 column, is at The Coastal Star: There he was in Cairo, our president, stealing our lines: Uniting people of faith, or no particular faith, in the 21st century. President Barack Obama bestrode multiple worlds, representing Americans in ways that hasn’t happened since … ever….he not only explained Islam to Americans, and America […]

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Focolare Movement: Does anyone live interreligious dialogue better?

June 26th · 2 Comments · Barack Obama, Bible, Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Catholic, Chiara Lubich, Christian, Creator, Focolare, Golden Rule, Imam W. Deen Mohammed, Interfaith, Jesus, Muslim, Quran

It’s like this, Humanity: We’re not when we want to be. But we ain’t where we was. Here’s yet another exhibit of that reality. One definition of interreligious dialogue is cooperation and positive interaction between people of different religious traditions. Nobody does that better, in my experience, than the members of the lay Catholic movement […]

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