Word: interfaith
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought this would be a very effective book for Christians. Soloveitchik is one of the greatest mystical thinkers in the United States." Catholic enthusiasm for the book is also significant because in 1964, during the Second Vatican Council, Soloveitchik announced his opposition to theological discussions between Jews and Christians. Interfaith talks, he wrote in one of his rare essays, must be limited to secular topics. Though his policy encourages some contact with Christians, it still limits theological dialogues...
...hours late, or because there were so many things to bitch at. Without having accomplished anything in five hours on the streets, she was looking forward to hearing Jesse Jackson speak at the Tent City that night. He cancelled however, and she was disappointed. Then, that night at the interfaith service, she shocked me when she learned over to me and said: "I'm going to take some of those voter registration cards to where I work...
Throughout the week, the debate reverberated widely. In New York City an interfaith group of national religious leaders called a news conference to decry the "serious erosion" they detected in the principle of church-state separation. Disturbed for months by the school-prayer discussion and then alarmed by Reagan's Dallas speech, members of the group nevertheless phrased their joint statement in nonpartisan terms: "The state should not behave as if it were a church or synagogue. It should not do for citizens what, in their rightful free exercise of religion, they are perfectly capable of doing for themselves...
...says Bishop Trevor Huddleston, a leader of the anti-apartheid movement, director at the International Defense and Aid Fund (IDAF) and South African resident. The IDAF provides legal aid to South Africans challenging the legality of elements of the apartheid system. Timothy R. Smith, the executive director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, which coordinates $8 billion in investments held by a group of American churches, adds. "It is clear that over the past year the presence of American companies hasn't helped the South African situation. It has actually deteriorated. Blacks still do not have the vote...
Despite the current building slump, many church architects are very busy. Judith A. Miller, administrative assistant of the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture, a professional association of theologians and designers of religious institutions, points out, "They are designing small buildings on small budgets. Church and synagogue design is no longer a matter of architectural theatrics, but of economy and liturgy...