Creationtide Book Study Beginning September 9th!

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My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation. Jennifer Howe Peace, Or N. Rose & Gregory Mobley, Editors.  

 

Join Deacon Ari Wolfe for a timely exploration of faith, belief, and encounters with “the other.” 

 

We will meet for discussion via Zoom every week on Mondays, Sept. 9th through October 28th, from 11:00am to 12:30pm PT. Please have a copy of the book and read the Preface and Introduction before the first class on Sept. 9th. A study guide will be posted to Deacon Ari’s website each week with the pages to read and suggested focal points for the upcoming discussion. All are invited to read along, and the Monday sessions will remain open to anyone who would like to join.

 

About the Book (From the publisher):

"This groundbreaking volume gathers an array of inspiring and penetrating stories about the interreligious encounters of outstanding community leaders, scholars, public intellectuals, and activist from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. With wisdom, wit, courage, and humility, these writers from a range of religious backgrounds share their personal experience of border-crossing, and the lessons learned from their interreligious adventures. We live in the most religiously diverse society in the history of humankind. Every day, people of different religious beliefs and practices encounter one another in a myriad of settings. How has this new situation of religious diversity impacted the way we understand the religious other, ourselves, and God? Can we learn to live together with mutual respect, working together for the creation of a more compassionate and just world?”

 

About the Editors:

Jennifer Howe Peace is assistant professor of Interfaith Studies at Andover Newton Theological School and Co-Director of CIRCLE: The Center for Inter-Religious and Communal Leadership Education (a joint venture of Hebrew College and Andover Newton Theological School.) Rabbi Or Rose is Associate Dean at the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College and Co-Director of CIRCLE. Gregory Mobley is professor of Old Testament at Andover Newton Theological School and co-founder of CIRCLE. He is an ordained Baptist minister.