Testimonials
Many renowned religious and educational leaders have praised the Institute's work. Among them are:
"The Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies is the most comprehensive, pioneering combination in the U.S., and, perhaps the world, of advanced thought, clergy involvement, and lay participants..."
Rabbi Irving Greenberg, President
The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership
"The Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies embodies the kind of organizational innovation and pedagogical imagination needed to confront the hostilities which pit one religious group against another."
Dr. William Richardson, President
The Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek Michigan
"The Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies has become a great resource for the faith communities in and beyond the Baltimore area."
William Cardinal Keeler, Archbishop of Baltimore and
President of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops
"To heal the wounds, to enable brothers and sisters to understand each other, to promote a climate of peace and mutual respect while affirming our differences — that is God's work. And the work of the ICJS."
Blu Greenberg, Distinguished Author and Lecturer
"We have enough models of conflict and too few of understanding and resolution: Prosper, ICJS!"
Dr. Martin Marty, University of Chicago, described by Time as the most influential interpreter of religion in the U.S.
"Far and away, in my view, the best program of its type, and certainly the model of what we should be doing in all areas of our country and in Europe as well."
Rabbi Michael Cook, Professor of Early Christian Literature
Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati
"ICJS honors the particularity of faith traditions while fostering a genuine commitment to religious pluralism. Such organizations are vital to the health of religion and to North American society."
Dr. Mary C. Boys, Union Theological Seminary, New York and
Professor Sara S. Lee, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles
"The ICJS provides needed education which breaks through the walls of distrust separating religious and racial groups."
Dr. Calvin W. Burnett, President
Coppin State College
"The ICJS session in which I participated so stimulated me that I wrote a book, John's Thought and Theology, in response to it."
Rev. Daniel Harrington, S.J.
Western School of Theology
