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Conflict Interfaith Relations

Religion, justice, and violence.

René Girard, Mark Juergensmeyer, Khalel Abou El-Fadl, and Danièle Hervieu-Leger.

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Interfaith Relations Marriage

From the Suggestion Box: Interfaith marriages.

What works and what doesn’t work in your interfaith marriage?

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Episcopal Church Interfaith Relations Reading Scripture Roman Catholicism

Schism bias watch.

You’re not being “ecumenical” if you’re dedicated to convincing Protestants, Orthodox, and heterodox Christians to give up their various disagreements with the Vatican.

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Conflict Interfaith Relations

The varieties of religious war.

Asking religious questions is the genuinely spiritual — and democratically necessary — task. Insisting on answers, however, is profoundly dangerous.

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Interfaith Relations

Interfaith dialogue in Jerusalem.

“If religiously grounded hatred can yield here to shared humility in the presence of the holy one, however defined — then equally profound transformations can happen anywhere.”