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...challah earlier this month, over 70 students gathered around an arch of colorful poster boards carefully arranged at the back of Lowell dining hall. Each tasty sample of holiday food was accompanied by a conversation about the traditions of one of the many religions represented on campus.The Harvard College Interfaith Council organized this culinary evening as the Kickoff Festival for its celebration of the first-ever National Interfaith Awareness Week during mid-April. By collaborating with 12 religious groups and the Harvard Secular Society, the Council works to foster interfaith dialogue among the more than 20 faith-based organizations...
...accept this guy for what he was.” This conciliatory nature carried over to his scholarship, Cox said. Stendahl eschewed displacement theology, which says that Christianity supplanted Judaism during its development, focusing instead on the continuity between the two faiths. Stendahl was also deeply concerned with interfaith matters, Cox added.Revered Peter J. Gomes, a divinity professor and the minister of Memorial Church, said that Stendahl’s work on the Gospel of Matthew published in 1954 remains the foremost authority on the subject.Gomes added that the period when Stendahl was editor of the Harvard Theological Review...
...with some of the authors of the Common Word, a document calling for Christian-Muslim dialogue that Muslim leaders around the world authored after the Pope made derogatory remarks about Islam in 2006. This November, the Pope will meet with Catholic and Muslim leaders for an interfaith dialogue in Rome. The Pope is also reaching out to the American Jewish community and will visit a synagogue for the third time in papal history. “This is such a great opportunity for him to reach out to Catholics and non-Catholics alike,” CSA member Neil...
Muslim Interests Those with a special interest in Islam should tune in for the Pope's interfaith meeting. One Muslim representative will be Dr. Sayyid Syeed, head of the Islamic Society of North America. Dr. Syeed noted to Voice of America News that parts of a speech the Pope gave in 2006 in Regensburg, Germany, had been "extremely painful" to Muslims, but that "I would like to make sure that if he has any misunderstanding about Islam we need to sit and discuss." He also noted that "Catholics over generations have struggled for recognition and respect. Their experience of that...
Other Faiths Try the interfaith forum at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday at Washington's John Paul II Center. Judaism, Islam, Jainism, Buddhism and Hinduism will all be represented...