June 2023
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Interfaith News Roundup - June 2023

by Paul Chaffee

Institutional Stories– Between Church & State – For Our Kids’ Sake – Gifts of the Spirit

Interfaith News Roundup - June 2023
May 2023
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Interfaith News Roundup - May 2023

by Paul Chaffee

Reaching Out for Goodness Sake – The Ethical Struggles We Share – In Memoriam

Interfaith News Roundup - May 2023
April 2023
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Interfaith News Roundup - April 2023

by Paul Chaffee

Interfaith Steps Forward – Religious Troubles – News & Newsmakers

Interfaith News Roundup - April 2023
March 2023
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Interfaith News Roundup - March 2023

by Paul Chaffee

Christians, by the Numbers – Muslims in the News – Interfaith Complexities – Paying Attention to Right-wing Christians – Religicide – What’s Possible … What to Consider

Interfaith News Roundup - March 2023
February 2023
Paul Chaffee
Interfaith News Roundup - February 2023

by Paul Chaffee

Women Finally Welcome – Church & State – The Dark Side of Religion – Interfaith Solutions – Heads Up!

Interfaith News Roundup - February 2023

Fearless Leo: What a Pope Invites Us to Be

Fearless Leo: What a Pope Invites Us to Be

At a time when armed conflicts proliferate, and democracies strain under polarization and the coercion of autocrats, truth itself is contested and trust for moral authority stands at a crossroads. This week, we are seeing how religion is used as a balm—or a blade…

Spring 2026: Personal as Political: Gender, Climate, and Economy

Exploring Interreligious Relations and Interfaith Culture

Spring 2026: Personal as Political: Gender, Climate, and Economy

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Praying With Our Feet: When the Earth Groans and Wage Workers Tremble
Praying With Our Feet: When the Earth Groans and Wage Workers Tremble

by Sheena Foster

In Washington, D.C., the snow comes down quietly at first. It hushes the city. It blankets the sharp edges: the curb cuts, the cracked sidewalks, the marble steps of institutions that were never designed for all of us…

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Religious Responsibility in the Reality of American Authoritarianism
Religious Responsibility in the Reality of American Authoritarianism

by Phyllis Curott J.D. Rev. H.Ps.

“First they came for the Communists… then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.” These words, written by Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller after the Second World War, are not just an act of contrition…

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Breathing Together: Gender, Climate, and the Personal as Political
Breathing Together: Gender, Climate, and the Personal as Political

by Amelio Collins 

 The world held its breath in 2018 marked by intensifying climate reports, rising global temperatures, and a growing sense that time was running out...

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No Neutral Ground: Gender, Climate, and the Cost of Complicity
No Neutral Ground: Gender, Climate, and the Cost of Complicity

by Kehkashan Basu

We can no longer afford neutrality. Not when women and girls are being denied their fundamental human rights. Not when the rights of Mother Earth and all her creatures to exist, regenerate, and sustain life are being stripped away.

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Grassroots Women: A Deep Potential of Love, Community and Power Toward the Better World We Need
Grassroots Women: A Deep Potential of Love, Community and Power Toward the Better World We Need

by Ann Smith

I first heard the phrase ‘personal is political’ in 1985 in Nairobi, Kenya, at the UN Third World Conference on Women. African women came in waves; they walked huge distances, traveled by buses, trains, and planes to demand their voices be heard. It was a breakthrough moment to witness for the first time a grassroots global women’s movement.

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Healing Division in Our World Through Oneness
Healing Division in Our World Through Oneness

by Faith Spencer

Today’s world is fragmented. Most U.S. adults tend to view life through a lens of political party affiliations and “us versus them.” There’s an evolutionary basis for this. In prehistoric days, loyalty to one’s own group (“us”) helped ensure survival, as did a skeptical and distrusting attitude about outside groups (“them”).

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Whose Knowledge Counts? Gender, Climate and the Politics of Evidence
Whose Knowledge Counts? Gender, Climate and the Politics of Evidence

by Maurice A. Bloem, Andrés Martinez, and Nora Khalaf-Elledge

Climate change did not arrive in the Arctic through policy frameworks or global summits. It arrived through memory. Vera Solovyeva is an Indigenous Sakha woman from a small village in the Sakha Republic…

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From Seattle to the Sierra Huasteca: Building Relationships via a Community-Engaged, Jesuit Research Partnership
From Seattle to the Sierra Huasteca: Building Relationships via a Community-Engaged, Jesuit Research Partnership

by Amanda Heffernan

Since the summer of 2024, I have had the privilege of partnering with Radio Huayacotla, a Jesuit-founded indigenous community radio station in the Sierra Huasteca of Veracruz, Mexico…

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Divine Connections
Divine Connections

by Angela Weber

As a reward to myself for reaching a mature age, I returned to my studies. I took a specialization course on third sector management, and then​ completed​ a Master’s degree in Anthropology​ ​all with the objective to…

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Reflection on the 70th Commission on the Status of Women

Reflection on the 70th Commission on the Status of Women

by Rev. Dr. Kara Markell

Lessons from Minneapolis: The Grace of Advocacy and Protest

Lessons from Minneapolis: The Grace of Advocacy and Protest

by Rev. Justin Almeida

O Horrid Night, the Guns are Fiercely Blazing

O Horrid Night, the Guns are Fiercely Blazing

by Robert P. Sellers

Huston Smith on Public Virtues and Vices

Huston Smith on Public Virtues and Vices

by Robert P. Sellers

Dialoguing at the Square

Dialoguing at the Square

by Robert P. Sellers

Fall 2025: Expressing Freedom: Religion and Healthy Democracy

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Fall 2025 Issue: Expressing Freedom: Religion & Healthy Democracy

Fall 2025 Issue
Freedom at the Fringes
Freedom at the Fringes

by Ivan Shneerson

I have long struggled to figure out where I belong. This came to a head during my senior year of college when I, an agnostic and low-observant Jew, chose to live in a Christian living community. Forty-nine young Christian men and me. Growing up, my family was…

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What It Means to Be Interfaith
What It Means to Be Interfaith

by Brandon LaGreca, LAc, MAcOM

My daughter recently reached a pivotal point in her homeschool curriculum: the study of world religions. Until now, my wife and I had been content to let her experience the sublime through nature, art, and music, instilling a subtle sense of…

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Countering Islamophobia Through Interfaith Encounters
Countering Islamophobia Through Interfaith Encounters

by Muhammad Sohail

The Muslim world has faced various social, political, and economic challenges recently. Internal divisions, unstable political and social systems, outside interventions, poverty, and unemployment have posed significant barriers to its influence in…

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Freedom to Express–And What about Science or Propaganda?
Freedom to Express–And What about Science or Propaganda?

by Bonnie Bowie, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN

The United States Constitution ensures the right to express one’s views and to practice one’s religion without fear of persecution. However, there are times in the past 250 years when these unalienable rights no longer seem certain…

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Freedom of Religion and Democracy’s Conscience
Freedom of Religion and Democracy’s Conscience

by Professor Dr. Trung Pham

After the Vietnam War, my father spent six years in a re-education camp. He endured forced labor, malnutrition, and ideological indoctrination. One day, he carved a small Madonna statue as a gift…

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Reflections on Freedom, Religion and Healthy Democracy
Reflections on Freedom, Religion and Healthy Democracy

by Professor Dr. Angeliki Ziaka

In the land where democracy was born, I began my journey. Greece, often referred to as its cradle, became for me a place of study and teaching in theology, the history of religions, and philosophy, fields that generated values and ideas…

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Seeking Vengeance is Weak

Seeking Vengeance is Weak

by Robert P. Sellers

Is Trump the New Samson?

Is Trump the New Samson?

by Robert P. Sellers

Spring 2025 - The Stories that Lead Us Forward

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Spring 2025
The Stories that Lead Us Forward


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Authoring our Shared Story
Authoring our Shared Story

by Frank DiGirolamo

“Wow! … You just listened to my whole anthem.” It was late at night, years ago, on North Broadway in Capitol Hill. “Miguel” had just recited his life story to me for a good 20 minutes…

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Echale! The Story of Generations Past
Echale! The Story of Generations Past

by Camila Torres

When I was a child, I was terrified of the dark. I hated going to sleep, because, once the lights turned off, the sheer possibility of encountering a monster kept me awake…

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An Inheritance of History
An Inheritance of History

by Amina Malkin

When talking about religion, my father will sometimes talk about “the chosen people,” a title that Jewish people have historically adopted as a way to reference being descended from…

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An Ongoing Legacy of Faith and Family
An Ongoing Legacy of Faith and Family

by Gabby Prado

Throughout my life, I’ve lived by the belief that my success and achievements are not solely mine but are deeply connected to the generations of my family who came before me…

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Maa Durga: The Blueprint for the Divine Feminine
Maa Durga: The Blueprint for the Divine Feminine

by Ayushi Upadhyay

As a lazy September blows over, the otherwise slumberous city of Kolkata is set alight by the rhythm of dhols and the smell of Night-flowering Jasmine…

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The Love and Light
The Love and Light

by Gabriella Joy Donaldson

I walked along the slick asphalt towards class, the air was heavy with the previous night’s chill and that morning’s discomfort. My clothes didn’t feel right, my curls were wet, my sock was…

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When Answering “Why?” is the Wrong Question
When Answering “Why?” is the Wrong Question

by Kathy Sharp

A few years ago, at a meeting of interfaith clergy from The Center for Ecumenical and Interfaith Engagement at Seattle University, a hospital chaplain shared how her patients often…

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Community Building for Times of Crisis
Community Building for Times of Crisis

by Sebrina Somers

Be prepared. That has been my motto ever since I was a young scout in the Girl Guides.  I even went on to teach it through my work in public health, and later as

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Our Vow to Each Other
Our Vow to Each Other

by Terry Kyllo

We were all feeling it as we walked to the cafeteria. Typically, after a seminary class, the Lutheran students would chat loudly down the hallway, continuing some debate from…

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Editorial: Shaped by Story
Editorial: Shaped by Story

Stories shape our understanding of the world. They teach us who we are, where we come from, and what we value. The stories we tell…

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The Contemporary Public Square
The Contemporary Public Square

by Robert P. Sellers

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Mystics, Heretics and Other “Souls on Fire”
Mystics, Heretics and Other “Souls on Fire”

by Chris Highland

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Winter 2024-25 - Paving Paths Toward Social Justice

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Winter 2024-25
Paving Paths Toward Social Justice


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Where Social Justice Begins
Where Social Justice Begins

by Marium Mohiuddin

“You have to come and help me right now!” he said. All I could think was “it’s 4 a.m., and there’s no way I can sneak out.” My parents would kill me. Despite being a senior in college...

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The Substance of Possibility
The Substance of Possibility

by Sparrow Etter Carlson

I write this now with my hand on my heart, and here it will remain. For what follows is about the precious people within our midst who are treated as ex-humans in our society and...

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Moving Toward Collective Care, Healing, and Action
Moving Toward Collective Care, Healing, and Action

by Zack Ritter

“All 40,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza are terrorists,” she said as we were eating cookies, standing around the flickering flames at Shabbat services. I was...

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Uplifting Women’s Voices and Challenging Male Misconduct
Uplifting Women’s Voices and Challenging Male Misconduct

by Cassandra Lawrence & Wendy Goldberg

It is the first thread in our tapestry of connections. In August 2018, both of us—eager for a safe space to discuss how multifaith communities can cultivate...

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Social Justice from the Bedside
Social Justice from the Bedside

by Justin Almeida

In spiritual and religious traditions, there is the concept of the “thin space.” That piece of being in which the veil of life and death, the sacred and mundane, becomes leable...

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Faith Communities Catalyzing Global Change
Faith Communities Catalyzing Global Change

by Maurice A. Bloem

s world leaders anticipate a season of change when they convene for the United Nation’s 79th General Assembly, the Climate Week and the Summit of the Future this month...

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Reimagining Interfaith Narratives
Reimagining Interfaith Narratives

by Aaron Stauffer

Good organizers consistently emphasize the importance of leaders “understanding” and “working” on their stories. When they are first getting to know a leader, they ask questions like: What keeps you up at night?

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Editorial: Navigating the Pathway of Justice

In today’s complex world, the pursuit of social justice demands that we not only confront systemic inequities but also build sustainable paths for change. The...

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Modeling How to Live from 10,000 Miles Away
Modeling How to Live from 10,000 Miles Away

by Robert P. Sellers

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