Interreligious leaders can be anywhere—both inside and outside of religious congregations. ICJS equips people in all walks of life to disarm religious bias and bigotry and to champion religious pluralism.
Interreligious leaders can be anywhere—both inside and outside of religious congregations. ICJS equips people in all walks of life to disarm religious bias and bigotry and to champion religious pluralism.
ICJS offers programs for religious leaders—both ordained and lay leaders—to increase their interreligious literacy, build resilient networks with one another, deepen understanding across differences.
At ICJS, a “justice leader” is a community, civic, or nonprofit leader who seeks to understand how the religious diversity of our communities is an asset that can anchor Baltimore’s health and growth.
ICJS provides thoughtful programming and professional development opportunities for Baltimore-area teachers in public, private religious, and independent non-religious schools.
In 2022, ICJS will launch the Emerging Religious Leaders Intensive (ERLI) for Muslim-Christian dialogue. Participants will be emerging Muslim religious leaders who attend Islamic seminaries and learning institutions in the United States and emerging Christian leaders who attend seminary at one of the member institutions of the Washington Theological Consortium.
In 2022, ICJS will launch the Emerging Religious Leaders Intensive (ERLI) for Muslim-Christian dialogue. Participants will be emerging Muslim religious leaders who attend Islamic seminaries and learning institutions in the United States and emerging Christian leaders who attend seminary at one of the member institutions of the Washington Theological Consortium.
ICJS, in partnership with the Washington Theological Consortium, hosts an annual Emerging Religious Leaders Intensive (ERLI) to advance Jewish-Christian understanding amongst rising Jewish and Christian clergy.
ICJS, in partnership with the Washington Theological Consortium, hosts an annual Emerging Religious Leaders Intensive (ERLI) to advance Jewish-Christian understanding amongst rising Jewish and Christian clergy.
In the beginning there was God…and there was water. Although a majority of my mental and emotional realm has always revolved around God and my relationship with God, I had never really taken the time to reflect on water—its relationship to the Divine and its implications for my own relationship to both God and other…
Having studied Comparative Religion as my major in undergraduate studies at George Washington University, I have always had a profound respect and appreciation for all religions, particularly the monotheistic faiths. However, I have never interacted with the other faiths as intimately as I have this last year through ICJS’s Congregational Leaders Fellowship. This experience has…
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. — Hebrews 11:1 (KJV) I remember it like it was yesterday. We were sitting in the hospital room watching television and sharing jokes as we had always done when the surgeon who performed my mother’s emergency surgery just 72-hours before…
One of the mikva’ot of the Lloyd Street Synagogue. This one was built in the early 1900s by the third congregation to worship in the building, Shomrei Mishmeres HaKodesh. JMM 1988.183.004 It may sound like a cliché these days, but I am so grateful for the opportunities I have to learn from the students who…