Category Archives: News

The Interfaith Youth Core has just published a really useful guide to “leadership in the face of religious bigotry” that draws together a timeline of the public events leading up to the debate over an Islamic Cultural Center in NYC, … Continue reading →

For anyone who couldn’t get to the American Academy of Religion (AAR) meeting last year (or who was there, but didn’t attend the plenary sessions), the AAR has kindly put up video from the sessions on the web. We’ve done … Continue reading →

I’m so excited about the upcoming annual meeting of the REA/​APPRRE, not least because the latest issue of our journal just came out and I think it’s a wonderful, microcosmic example of what our field is about. Just look at … Continue reading →

Sightings, a University of Chicago/​Martin Marty Center publication, writes of the thorny dilemma currently being lived through in England around admissions to Jewish schools. Who gets to decide, when the competition is steep, who is Jewish? Is the test for … Continue reading →

I’ve been trying to coax Ronald Moore, who is the producer of both Battlestar Galactica and Caprica, to come to our November meeting and talk about it. So far, no success (but he hasn’t turned us down yet!). In any … Continue reading →

For those of you who are new to blogging, you might find the Social Science Research Council’s recent report on the “the religion blogosphere” an interesting resource. The report, available both as a website and in .pdf form, includes a … Continue reading →

Here’s a conference, being held April 11–13 in Rochester, NY, that some of you might be interested in. It’s focused on interfaith understanding, and is full of creative interaction through art and music-​based events.

A set of numbers seeking to describe the ‘net these days. (Hat tip to FreeRangeLearning)

The Interfaith Youth Core has started to put together a weekly digest of news which might be of interest to interfaith learners — it’s definitely worth checking out!

The Media Education Lab at Temple, in conjunction with PBS, has put up a host of really useful resources on parenting kids in digital contexts. Apparently the “occasion” is the première on February 2^nd of a new PBS documentary on … Continue reading →