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Secondary school educators will learn how teaching about religion can help disarm religious bias and bigotry.
The 10-month ICJS Teachers Fellowship provides professional development opportunities for educators to explore how to provide students with an informed appreciation of the religious diversity that contributes to civic life.
Over five days of mutual learning, challenging discussion, and blossoming friendships, a group of more than two dozen emerging Muslim and Christian religious leaders recently engaged in an innovative intensive course in interreligious dialogue. The Emerging Religious Leaders (ERL) course, held in early June on the campus of Virginia Theological Seminary, is a groundbreaking program…
The Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS) mourns the lives of our brothers and sisters who were murdered in Buffalo, New York. ICJS strongly condemns the racism and bigotry behind this hate crime, and we stand in solidarity with Black communities who are experiencing deep pain, grief, hurt, and fear. The perpetrator of…
As a first-generation immigrant and Spanish teacher in Baltimore, the process of putting together my presentation for the other teacher fellows was quite challenging. The multiple reasons for the difficulty of this task ranged from incorporating the topic of religion in a language class (Spanish) to presenting a religious topic in a non-religious school. However,…
My paternal great-grandfather emigrated from Germany in the mid-to-late 19th century. From an early age, I was told by my father that we had Jewish “roots” but were not actually Jewish. That line of heredity had been broken sometime in the distant past. However, my feelings towards Jewish people were always positive and remain so.…
I surround myself with creative people, but I usually do not consider myself to be creative. So I was shocked that I volunteered to work one-on-one with a storyteller to tell my Teachers Fellowship cohort a story at our Fellowship retreat. I am a preacher and a teacher, but I have never done something like…
Can our religious differences be a powerful force for good? How do we not just envision, but in fact build an interreligious society in the United States? How can ICJS inspire the American public to champion religious pluralism? A healthy, functioning democracy is necessary for the interreligious society to flourish and currently our democracy in…
High school teachers serve as unintentional interreligious leaders, as they navigate classrooms with diverse students and teach history, politics/government, literature, art, religious studies,and language that regularly intersects with religion. ICJS equips secondary teachers to meet the challenge to transform classrooms into places of interreligious literacy and understanding.
How can our religious diversity become an asset that anchors our shared civic life? ICJS offers public events plus a cohort-based study year for nonprofit and community leaders interested in considering how Christian, Jewish and Muslim traditions can enrich their justice-making work.
Religious leaders from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim congregations can rely on ICJS to help them build their congregation’s capacity to disarm religious bias and bigotry and to build resilient networks across diverse houses of worship.
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