27 March 2015 9:50 AM

Victoria Barnett, director of the programs on ethics, religion and the Holocaust at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., will present “Implications of the Holocaust for Multireligious Conversations” in a luncheon program at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, April 22, at Mount Zion Temple, 1300 Summit Ave., St. Paul.

January 6, 2015

The emerging academic field of interreligious and interfaith studies (IIS) has burst onto the scene relatively recently and will be, I suspect, coming to a college or university near you soon. Currently there are only a few undergraduate programs and several graduate and seminary programs. The number of these programs are rapidly growing in addition to the number of academic journals and organizations devoted to the field. Those on the forefront of crafting this field have deemed it an inherently interdisciplinary field, which I believe is accurate. However, a particular challenge remains: the clear articulation and demonstration of how this field relates to, and is distinct from, the academic fields of religious studies (RS) and theological studies (TS). READ MORE…

29 October 2014 9:52 AM

Interfaith Affinity: The shared vision of Rabbi Heschel and Pope Francis

Soon after the death of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel in December 1972, America devoted an entire issue to his life and work. The idea for the special issue, published on March 10, 1973, came from John C. Haughey, S.J., an associate editor, who explained that anyone who knew Rabbi Heschel “sensed the depth of his exposure to the Presence of God.” The same point appeared in the editorial that introduced the special issue: “No Christian who ever entered into conversation with Professor Heschel came away without having been spiritually enriched and strengthened.” READ MORE…

St. Thomas Newsroom October 15, 2014 Events, Faith, Front Page, News

Bradley Malkovsky, associate professor of comparative religion at the University of Notre Dame, will present “God’s Other Children: Personal Encounters with Faith, Love and Holiness in Sacred India” at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, in Woulfe Alumni Hall South in the Anderson Student Center on the St. Paul campus of the University of St. Thomas.

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08 September 2014 9:54 AM

Mary C. Boys, a leading Catholic expert on Christian-Jewish relations, will lead a workshop titled “Jesus, Jews and Christians: Redeeming Our Sacred Story” from 9:45 to 11:45 a.m. Friday, Sept. 19, at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, 511 Groveland Ave., Minneapolis.

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April 17, 2014 St. Thomas Newsroom

Rabbi Rachel Timoner will present “Listening for the Spirit of God in Our Pursuit of Justice: Spirituality and Justice in the Jewish Tradition” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, in Room 100 of McNeely Hall on the St. Paul campus of the University of St. Thomas. Rabbi Rachel Timoner The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the , a joint enterprise of St. Thomas and St. John’s University, Collegeville.

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