What is 10 for 10: Voting Vision not Division? Starting on September 2, 2024 and continuing every Monday for ten weeks through November 4, Faith Commons is offering ten 10-minute reflections on topics related to the upcoming election through the lens of religion.
Our premise is that religion should be used to unite people and groups of people rather than to divide them, and that the founders of our country shared our view.
“What Makes This Land Holy?” That was the title of the Faith Commons tour to Israel/Palestine scheduled to begin on October 9, …
This original article was published at BaptistNews.org. by Mara Richards Bim, Faith Commons Program Director Recently I traveled to Austin, Texas, to testify …
by Rabbi Nancy Kasten Where do people in our world today find the strength to cope and persevere in the face of …
Although tolerance is no doubt a step forward from intolerance, it does not require new neighbors to know anything about one another. Tolerance can create a climate of restraint but not one of understanding. Tolerance alone does little to bridge the chasms of stereotype and fear that may, in fact, dominate the mutual image of the other. … It is far too fragile a foundation for a society that is becoming as religiously complex as ours.
Diana Eck, A New Religious America – How a “Christian Country” Has Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation (Harper Collins, 2001).
BOB COLEMAN
ELLEN WESTERVELT BOEHMER
JIM MORRISON
MARCIA GROSSFIELD