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White House’s Melissa Rogers affirms religious diversity as interfaith group expands
By Adelle M. Banks — May 10, 2022
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘There’s so much that unites us if we are only willing to look for that unity and work side by side,’ Rogers said at the event launching Interfaith America.
Doug Emhoff highlights Black interfaith contributions as new project launches
By Adelle M. Banks — February 24, 2022
(RNS) — As the Black Interfaith Project launches, Emhoff said his interfaith marriage with Kamala Harris followed the discovery that their joint values were rooted in their different faiths.
Putting Black at the center of interfaith
By Frederick A. Davie — June 11, 2021
(RNS) — Interfaith partners have often ignored the struggle for racial justice facing Black and brown neighbors and their religious leaders.
Interfaith ‘vaccine ambassadors’ take up Biden’s Month of Action
By Eboo Patel, Mary Ellen Giess, and Paul Brandeis Raushenbush — June 3, 2021
(RNS) — Two thousand volunteers of diverse faiths will engage people through their religious communities.
Eboo Patel says $6 million gift to IFYC will jumpstart ‘Interfaith America’
By Bob Smietana — August 7, 2020
(RNS) — An unexpected multi-million dollar grant will help jumpstart IFYC's new Interfaith America campaign to address racial justice.
As pandemic wears on, faith leaders dig in on life or death decisions
By Silma Suba — July 21, 2020
(RNS) — Pastors, imams and rabbis are balancing their faiths’ core values with their communities’ sometimes fractious feelings about reopening.
From King to Gandhi, racial justice brings faiths together
By Eboo Patel — July 16, 2020
(RNS) — Racial equity is a movement where people from different faiths meet, are inspired by one another and advance a cause that we view as a sacred command.
12 Black faith leaders who shaped America
By Carr Harkrader — July 2, 2020
(RNS) — As we approach our national Independence Day this year, I’m inspired to look at the holiday as a chance to commemorate the past, but, even more importantly, to demand a better future.
From ‘Judeo-Christian’ to ‘Potluck Nation,’ Eboo Patel pleads for religious pluralism
By Yonat Shimron — August 30, 2018
(RNS) — 'At a potluck, you don’t want everyone to bring mashed potatoes,' says the founder and president of the Interfaith Youth Core.
12 atheist books you may have overlooked: Part 2
By Chris Stedman — June 18, 2014
A critical look at race and atheism. An answer to the question, "Why was I born?" An atheist response to "day-to-day unhappiness." Here are six more atheist books you may have overlooked.
2013: Atheism’s 10 defining moments
By Chris Stedman — December 31, 2013
Atheism was in the headlines perhaps more than ever before in 2013. To highlight some of atheism’s defining moments and trends from the last year, I worked with a panel of ten writers, scholars, and activists to come up with ten major moments or currents in American atheism from 2013. Their contributions are below. Godless […]
Nearly 1 in 4 alums of leading U.S. interfaith organization are nonreligious
By Chris Stedman — December 30, 2013
Earlier this month, Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC)—a leading interfaith organization in the United States that works with college and university campuses to equip young people for cooperative service and dialogue around shared values—released intriguing numbers about the alumni of their programs. According to their survey results, nearly 1 in 4 IFYC alums identify as atheist […]
Parliament of the World’s Religions survives financial crunch
By Adelle M. Banks — April 16, 2013
(RNS) With the help of pagans, Jains and people of a range of other faiths, the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions has raised more than $144,000 in two weeks in a desperate bid to overcome a financial crisis.
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