Author: Staff Writer

Source: Odyssey Networks

http://odysseynetworks.org/video/odyssey-networks/diana-eck-kathryn-lohre-common-ground-in-the-midst-of-differences

"Diversity does not create pluralism,” says Diana Eck, director, The Pluralism Project, Harvard University. "Pluralism takes effort." Eck and Kathryn Lohre, associate director and president-elect of The National Council...

Author: Gillian Flaccus

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/16/AR2011021605377.html

Diana Gonzalez lives in an encampment of grimy tents and overstuffed shopping carts in an alley less than three miles from Disneyland. Her life is a world apart from the fairy tales of the Happiest Place on Earth.

Author: Michel Martin

Source: National Public Radio

Author: Ned Parker

Source: The Los Angeles Times

Author: Kelly Figueroa-Ray

Source: State of Formation

http://www.stateofformation.org/2011/02/come%E2%80%A6-read-my-sacred-texts-as-if-they-were-yours%E2%80%A6/

In an earlier post, I offered a reflection on the types of inter-religious encounters that, although often well intentioned, tend to be reductive and ultimately unhelpful in the development of inter-religious dialogue. This does not...

Author: Chris McKee

Source: KMTR-TV

http://www.kmtr.com/news/local/story/Corvallis-mosque-community-plant-peace-tree/i6YPvnPidU-w-DB3gXioFg.cspx

A continued show of support for the Corvallis Muslim community from the greater community on Sunday, months after arson destroyed a large part of its building.

"My prayer for today is just that. That we do not consider this day...

Author: Travis Loller

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021104261.html

When an out-of-work truck driver opened fire in a Tennessee church because it welcomed gay and multiracial families, the congregation met that hatred with love. In the process, it inspired a national campaign centered around Valentine'...

Author: Samuel G. Freedman

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/us/12religion.html?ref=religionandbelief

In a San Antonio chapel last August, after reciting their wedding vows and exchanging their rings, Sally and Mark Austin prepared to receive communion for the first time as husband and wife. Just before they did, their minister asked them to sign a document. It was a ketubah, a traditional Jewish...

Author: Sarah Sweeney

Source: The Harvard Gazette

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/02/%E2%80%98that-was-his-dream%E2%80%99/

According to S. Allen Counter, it was a scene that would have made civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. proud.

The pews at the Memorial Church were crammed with members of the Harvard community who turned out on Monday (Feb. 7) evening to celebrate the life and message of...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BeliefNet News

Wire Service: RNS

http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2011/02/obama-names-second-round-of-fa.php

President Obama has named top U.S. church leaders to an advisory council on faith-based programs, but the list of appointments is also drawing questions about a lack of diversity from minority faiths.

Author: Adam Parker

Source: The Post and Courier

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/feb/08/interfaith-event-backs-mideast-democracy/

Answering a call for solidarity, local faith leaders and about 100 Charleston-area residents assembled Monday night at the Jewish Community Center to show support for the democracy movement in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan and elsewhere in the Middle East.

Author: Laurie Goodstein

Source: The New York Times Magazine

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/us/politics/08muslim.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

The new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Monday that he planned to call mostly Muslim and Arab witnesses to testify in hearings next month on the threat of homegrown Islamic terrorism.

Author: Kathy Hanson

Source: The Ames Tribune

http://www.amestrib.com/articles/2011/02/06/ames_tribune/news/doc4d4e312a782fc802153812.txt

Emily Hull’s shy remark broke the ice for an interfaith circle of about 15 women who met for the first time Saturday in the kitchen of the Darul Arqum Islamic Center of Ames.

Author: Kanwal Prakash Singh

Source: The Indianapolis Star

http://newsfromyou.indystar.com/posts/interfaith-gathering-at-the-sikh-temple-sikh-satsang-honors-rev-kent-millard-and-others

The Sikh Temple (Acton Road) in Indianapolis dedicated the last Sunday of January to the important work and vision of Interfaith Hunger Initiative (IHI). The Sikh Satsang of Indianapolis...

Author: Charles Radin

Source: Brandeis NOW

http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2011/february/jewbus.html

Who are the JewBus? What is a JewBu?

These and other, more-sophisticated questions about the meeting of the distinctive cultures, traditions and practices of Judaism and Buddhism are being asked by two members of the Sociology faculty, Associate Professor Wendy Cadge and Assistant Professor Sara Shostak, in research they began...