Word: interfaith
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Nothing slows down a mass movement like nuance. Many protest groups realized that the hunger for antiwar sentiment subsided the moment that U.S. troops were put in peril. "The mood changes," says Claire Gorfinkel, who co-chairs Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, a Pasadena, Calif., coalition with a 1,000-member mailing list. At rallies and marches, Gorfinkel says, passersby are less willing to flash peace signs and honk car horns. "My hunch is that there will be a reassessment on a broad scale throughout society for a period of time, a pendulum swing, if you will...
These days, the chapel serves as common grounds for multi-ethnic, interfaith groups Cambridge groups, ranging from Alcholics Anonymous to the Peace Corps, as well as the services of two congregations from very different denominations—Anglican and Russian Pentecostal...
Neither cracking down on vagrancy nor Bush's plan to end chronic homelessness is going to help the growing number of families without housing. David and Gina Christian and their four children have avoided the streets by staying in a 600-sq.-ft. apartment at the Interfaith House in Dallas, which provides three months' housing to 100 needy families each year. David, 34, lost his job fixing rental cars in Austin after Sept. 11 when the tourism industry fell apart. Gina, 36, wasn't making enough as a nursing-home temp to cover the family's expenses. The Christians hocked...
Your reporting on Abraham was evenhanded and perceptive. It is certainly the right of anyone to seek interfaith understanding. For those of us who believe there is only one way to please God, however, the key to maintaining harmony among competing faiths is a democratic and pluralistic society that allows full and free expression of diverse religious beliefs. Charles T. Buntin Mayfield...
...anniversary of Sept. 11 passed, several new enterprises inaugurated similar efforts. In Portland, Ore., a group called the Abraham Initiative began a two-year, citywide interfaith program. The venerable, Protestant-founded Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York is starting an open-ended Abraham Program involving lectures and trifaith panels. A participant in several such efforts is Feiler. At the end of Abraham, its author announces that understanding how each faith, and seemingly each generation, concocts its own Abraham has liberated him to create his own, whom he whimsically calls "Abraham No. 241." This Abraham, he says, "is perceptive enough...