The Multifaithworld blog has moved to the Web site of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Our new address is: www.RRC.edu/multifaithworld Please visit us there, where you can subscribe to e-mail updates and RSS feeds of our blog and other RRC bloggers. This site now serves as the archive for entries we posted prior to December 2010. [...]
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We’ve moved!
Posted in RRC related story, tagged RRC multifaith studies and initiatives on January 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Getting the Christmas Spirit
Posted in Jewish-Christian Engagement, Religion in America, RRC related story on December 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Our rabbinical college, RRC, launched a new website this week, MostJewish.com. In addition to a light hearted game exploring Jewish identity, the website also includes a blog with room for more probing explorations. The editor of the blog, Rabbi Deborah Glanzberg-Krainin, launched the conversation with a post on being a Jew at Christmas. A wonderful [...]
RRC Hevruta with Christian Seminaries
Posted in Jewish-Christian Engagement, RRC related story, tagged hevruta, hevrutah, Jewish-Christian text study, LTSP, PTS, seminary interfaith education on October 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We have just posted the syllabi from the joint course that RRC offers with Lutheran Theological Seminary of Philadelphia (LTSP) and Palmer Theological Seminary (PTS) on our Resources Page. As well, there is information about Hevruta. Please feel free to be in touch with Rabbi Melissa Heller for more information about these programs at: mheller@rrc.edu
Room at the Table
Posted in Jewish-Christian Engagement, Religion in America, RRC related story, Sermons and Words of Torah, tagged Christian pluralism, interfaith work, interreligious engagement, jewish christian dialogue, Multifaith Education, multifaith relations, progressive evangelical Christianity, religious education, RRC multifaith studies and initiatives, RRC rabbinical student on May 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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, [...]
“Praying with Your Feet” at RRC
Posted in Abrahamic Engagement, Religion in America, RRC related story on April 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week, I am at a conference sponsored by Andover Newton Seminary and Hebrew College Rabbinical School. The conference is entitled “Educating Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Leaders for Service in a Multi-Religious World: The American Seminary Context.” I can’t wait to hear about all the exciting programs being created by my counterparts throughout the country [...]
RRC Grad Teaching Won Buddhist Ministers-in-Training
Posted in Eastern Religions, Religion in America, RRC related story, tagged homiletics, Rabbi Goldie Milgram, Won Buddhism 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 [...]
RRC Multifaith Salon Welcomes Prof. Theodore Friend
Posted in Jewish- Muslim Engagement, Jewish-Christian Engagement, Middle East, RRC related story, tagged interfaith work, interreligious engagement, jewish christian dialogue, jewish muslim dialogue, jewish muslim relations, Multifaith Education, multifaith relations, religious education, religious social activists, RRC multifaith studies and initiatives, RRC rabbinical student on March 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A Jesuit priest and a Medical Mission Sister, two scholars of Islam wearing hijabs, a healthy dose of rabbis, rabbinical students and ministers, and assorted colleagues and friends gathered to hear a learned historian who is a former college president and a Presbyterian elder…… We were there as part of our ongoing salon series, Praying [...]
In the Wake of an Earthquake: An Interfaith Encounter
Posted in Jewish-Christian Engagement, RRC related story, tagged haitian earthquake, interfaith chaplaincy, jewish senior residence 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 [...]
Good without God
Posted in Religion in America, RRC related story, tagged greg epstein, Humanism, humanist judaism 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.
Hanukkah at MacDonald’s
Posted in Abrahamic Engagement, Religion in America, RRC related story, tagged Hanukkah, interreligious engagement, Muslim-Jewish-Christian Relations, teens and spirituality, Walking the Walk on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Celebrating Hanukkah in a McDonald’s with Muslim and Christian high school students in North Philadelphia must be a first”, says Reconstructionist Rabbinical College student Ari Hendin, who is also an intern with the Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia. Hendin had been asked to lead a brief teaching on the meaning of Hanukkah on Sunday, December [...]
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