Word: interfaith
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...with religious conflict during the holidays. Operating on the premise that students will feel more comfortable in their houses if their religious symbols are present, houses have begun to place menorahs and, less frequently, Kwaanza lamps, alongside Christmas trees. Unfortunately, this does not serve to foster any sort of interfaith exchange or greater House community...
...these holidays share a great deal in common. But students of all three faiths were offended because the event mushed everything together and blurred important boundaries. This sort of format works for a content-less holiday party but is inappropriate when it serves as the basis for a substantive interfaith discussion...
Second, we must learn to respect the differences between religions. This should not be an impediment to interfaith events. For example, last year the Interfaith Forum and Hillel sponsored a model Passover seder. The event walked through many of the rituals of the meal, allowing time for discussion. Many connections between Easter and Passover were drawn, and students of both faiths learned a great deal about each other and themselves...
...event also could have included a run-through of the rituals and liturgy of Easter. The key is that the integrity of different rituals must be maintained. The experience of the Dunster House Harvest Moon Festival should not discourage future interfaith events; of all the attempts to deal with religion in the houses, it is the only one that has tried to tackle the issue in an honest and substantive way. It would have worked had it allowed time for each religion to present itself...
...flags, Texaco's stockholders did next to nothing. They could have put serious pressure on the company to clean up its act, but until Texaco's racial climate became a public embarrassment, most of them ignored the issue. For the past four years, New York City's Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, an ecumenical group that invests in companies so that it can have a voice in their policies, has introduced resolutions to make Texaco more accountable by disclosing data about its employment practices. But, says the I.C.C.R.'s Gary Brouse, such efforts have failed because "we couldn...