Word: interfaith
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...Swedenborgian Church is one of the few Christian institutions that performs interfaith weddings. The Cambridge chapel also provides resources for men transitioning out of prison, facilitates near-death experience discussion groups, and hosts non-violent communication work...
This year when Americans think about Sept. 11, they don't look back so much as forward. There will be moments of silence and service motorcycle-rally fund raisers in Minnesota, interfaith prayer services in Cleveland, Ohio; panel discussions in Louisville, Ky.; blood drives in Indianapolis, Ind. But there are no network-TV marathons this time, and many victims' families are grateful to be left alone. The event felt enormous at the time, literally unimaginable. But our imaginations have become deeper, perhaps darker, colored by each new terrorism alert and stretched to allow for reasonable people to spend a week...
...announced last month that the center would be closed, citing activities inconsistent with the values the Sheikh has professed. Zayed “has always been a strong advocate of interfaith tolerance and harmony among religions,” the statement read...
...apparently, winning ecumenical approval is less important than being true to his bold vision. But he did hold early screenings, stacking the audience with clerics, scholars and media types who would probably like it. That annoyed some of the uninvited, whose antennas had detected trouble when a group of interfaith scholars got an early version of the screenplay and criticized it for historical errors and unfairness to the Jewish figures in the story. (Gibson threatened to sue over what his company called a "stolen" script...
...Houston this month, Gibson screened the unfinished film for a group of Catholic, Jewish and Protestant leaders--all of whom signed a confidentiality agreement. That day one of the attendees, Rabbi Eugene Korn, director of Interfaith Affairs at the Anti-Defamation League, told the Houston Chronicle, "We still have grave concerns," and the ADL elaborated on them in a press release. This breach rankled other leaders, who signed a group letter sent privately to the ADL (a draft of which was obtained by TIME): "The Passion is a powerful and graphic film ... We do not all agree on the effect...