Read an excerpt from Harvard theologian Harvey Cox's new book, "The Future of Faith."
Posted: Sep 25th, 2009 Comments: 1 Views: 675
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September 25, 2009: THE FUTURE OF FAITH by Harvey Cox
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September 25, 2009: Yizkor Requiem
Composer and conducter Thomas Beveridge says his Yizkor Requiem is "a quest for spiritual roots" and a musical bridge between Christianity and Judaism.
Posted: Sep 25th, 2009 Comments: 5 Views: 1,074
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September 25, 2009: Rituals of Yom Kippur
Rabbi Irwin Kula of the National Center for Jewish Learning and Leadership says Yom Kippur and the High Holidays are about life, not death. The paradox, he says, is that "one of the great ways to focus ourselves on life is to think about death."
Posted: Sep 25th, 2009 Comments: 0 Views: 1,319
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September 11, 2009: Jewish High Holidays
Rabbi Irwin Kula, president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, says everything having to do with Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is designed "to help us make teshuva, return to that deepest path that we know we want to be on."
Posted: Sep 11th, 2009 Comments: 1 Views: 1,843
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September 11, 2009: Rabbi Irwin Kula Interview
"On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur thousands of people gather together and go through many, many prayers in which we ask ourselves, how have I done?"
Posted: Sep 11th, 2009 Comments: 2 Views: 1,036
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August 28, 2009: Ramadan is Here
"Ramadan is that really intense, focused way of fasting and working on our own selves," says Rahima Ullah, "and then working on our relationships to others and ultimately to God."
Posted: Aug 28th, 2009 Comments: 14 Views: 4,438
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August 21, 2009: Jewish Children’s Museum
An interactive museum in Brooklyn teaches children and their families the universal values rooted in Jewish tradition.
Posted: Aug 21st, 2009 Comments: 0 Views: 977
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August 14, 2009: Greener Bar Mitzvah
It's good to use bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs to inculcate environmental values, says Rabbi Lawrence Troster, a religious environmental leader: "Protecting the Earth is a mitzvah, and I mean that in the sense of a commandment. We are required to take care of creation. It’s not a choice."
Posted: Aug 14th, 2009 Comments: 10 Views: 1,420
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July 31, 2009: Interfaith Wedding
Sunitha Mani is an Indian Hindu, born in America. Her mother calls her a modern girl. Even so, as she prepares for her marriage, she is going the traditional route, and then some.
Posted: Jul 31st, 2009 Comments: 3 Views: 5,814
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June 19, 2009: Pilgrimage to Chartres
St. John's University history professor John Rao, a traditionalist Roman Catholic, has made the three-day pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres Cathedral more than half a dozen times and says the experience is filled with ritual, ceremony, and spiritual fervor.
Posted: Jun 19th, 2009 Comments: 19 Views: 11,376
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