Interreligious Dialogue

Dr. William C. Weckerly willl present an Interfaith Forum of the three major monotheistic religions on Thursday, Nov. 17, fromm 9:30 a.m.- 11 a.m.   The dialogue will be in Room 108A of the Cooper Memorial Library on the at Lake-Sumter Community College ...

Sunday's editorial about post 9-11 religious tolerance in America is fair game for criticism, as are all editorials. But some of the responses we got – several dozen letters to the editor – made me wonder if some readers well, read the...

A 12-year-old statement stressing diversity and peace is being reissued by a group of religious leaders on Chicago’s North Shore, in honor of the anniversary …...

According to a poll released Sunday, a minority of Egyptians support the Muslim Brotherhood, the once outlawed Islamist movement, and less than 1% favor an Iran-style Islamic theocracy. The Gallup poll conducted after former President Hosni Mubarak was...

Osama bin Laden is dead, but his brand of religious extremism lives on. This is not to say that such religious extremism is exclusive to Islam and Muslims. Extremism infiltrates the minds of religious zealots, nationalists, racists, environmentalists,...

I scrambled out of bed at dawn's first light, dashed to the barn to milk a cow, stopped by the chicken coop to collect fresh-from-the-hen eggs, then doubled back to the farmhouse for breakfast. Six of us gathered around the table at Verdant View Farm B&B,...

Last week's Time magazine cover story by Bobby Ghosh reported that "hate speech against Muslims and Islam is growing both more widespread and more heated," with protests against a mosque in lower Manhattan and the building of other mosques elsewhere not...

9/11 victims' families will join with more than three dozen other organizations today to show their support for building an Islamic Center near Ground Zero in an effort to re-frame the debate on the controversial site. The group September Eleventh...

A new billboard campaign in Indianapolis will soon tell people they don't need God to live a good life. Drivers headed south out of Indianapolis along U.S. 31 will see a new billboard next week reading, "You don't need God - to hope, to care, to love,...

Editor’s note: This column is part of a seriesof columns from the Interfaith Coalition of Washington County to mark A Season for Peace and Nonviolence, Jan. 30 through April 4. In 1965, I began graduate studies at Columbia University in New York,...