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This minicourse introduces participants to Howard Thurman, arguably the most important 20th century African American religious leader before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , in the contexts of African American religious and cultural activism. In person and online options.
Dr. Walter Earl Fluker, an internationally recognized expert on Howard Thurman’s life and teaching, will deliver the 2023 Manekin-Clark Lecture on Monday, October 23, 2023 at 7:00 PM. Learn more about the lecture and other Manekin-Clark events.
Uncover the goals of the Christian movement that is a threat to the American values of democracy and pluralism. Through podcasts, articles, courses, and videos, Matthew D. Taylor shares his research and storytelling.
The ICJS Justice Leaders Fellowship is a 10-month intensive program for local community, nonprofit, and civic leaders to study and dialogue together. The fellowship draws on the rich resources of diverse religious traditions to inform and inspire a more just Baltimore and to discover how religious pluralism is key to a democratic society.
ICJS fellowships make space for justice leaders, congregational leaders, and educators to learn interreligiously. But at ICJS, we want interreligious practitioners to take what they have learned beyond the classroom and apply an interreligious perspective to their work in and around Baltimore. This past year, with the support of the T. Rowe Price Foundation, ICJS…
“Interreligious experience” is an incomplete—and even ambiguous—phrase. The experience itself can take many forms, from having a respectful, open-hearted dialogue with someone of a different faith to experiencing spiritual growth that comes from worshiping together and sharing our beliefs and traditions. But the term interreligious experience can also captures tense moments of misunderstanding between people…
On a recent educational tour of Egypt, while driving through the sizzling summer sands from Alexandria to Cairo, my group stopped to visit the St. Macarius monastery, a Coptic Orthodox religious community founded in 360 A.D. A friendly resident monk gave us a tour of the grounds and the interior chapels. Unexpectedly, he recited a…
My experience in the ICJS Justice Leaders Fellowship has prompted me to think deeply about economic justice issues in Baltimore and around the country. Prior to applying for this fellowship and being advised that economic justice was going to be the focus of the program, the topic about the digital divide came to mind. My…
“In my late 20s I didn’t think it was possible to be gay and Jewish, ” says Marc Wernick, Justice Leader Fellow alum and a a member of Faith Communities of Baltimore with Pride.