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Niebuhr recommends two books: One Nation After All, Alan Wolfe and Religious Literacy by Stephen Prothero.
5:57 PM Nov 18th
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Pew Centers say that 70% of Americans believe that God is present in other religions.
5:50 PM Nov 18th
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Jesus said, "The poor you will always over have with us." The intolerant we will also always have with us.
5:43 PM Nov 18th
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Violence is easy to quantify, but conversation and relationships are not. So the interfaith movement doesn't get much coverage in the media.
5:41 PM Nov 18th
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This is not about tolerance. Tolerance is when you stop your fist from hitting someone's nose. This is about engagement and respect.
5:39 PM Nov 18th
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Camus wrote: Henceforth, the only honor will lie in obstinately holding to a formidable gamble: that words are stronger than bullets.
5:22 PM Nov 18th
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As a citizen of a continent nearly broken by Nazis, Camus wrote against killing and for dialogue. His tone is urgent.
5:20 PM Nov 18th
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Niebuhr interviewed a Unitarian minister who greeting him with a tract: Essays by Camus about the future. One called Toward Dialogue.
5:18 PM Nov 18th
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The movement starts with individuals and with exposure. Listen to a Sikh, Muslim, Hindu and come away knowing that this is human being.
5:13 PM Nov 18th
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When the mosque came under attack from a politician, the synagogue built its sukkah at the mosque. Jews and Muslims decorated it together.
5:09 PM Nov 18th
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Then, they agreed to talk about Jerusalem. By then, it was okay to disagree and argue over coffee and doughnuts.
5:07 PM Nov 18th
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Synagogue and mosque on Long Island: Agreed not to discuss Middle East. Talked about life events, God, immigrant experience for years.
5:06 PM Nov 18th
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This decentralized movement involves the desire to be part of a community, the desire to overcome fear. Socially entrepreneurial.
5:01 PM Nov 18th
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Frank Hubbard, an Episcopal priest in South Brunswick, NJ, helped organized protection for the Muslim community and interfaith conversationl
5:00 PM Nov 18th
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Grassroots interfaith movement begun by awareness of American pluralism and accelerated by September 11.
4:55 PM Nov 18th
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Not a backlash: a movement of volunteers keeping watch over Islamic institutions and American religious liberty. That story wasn't told.
4:51 PM Nov 18th
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The story of 9/11 made it imperative to write about interfaith relations. Around the US, people rallied to protect Islamic institutions.
4:50 PM Nov 18th
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Gus Niebuhr was on the last train into Penn Station on September 11, 2001. At NYT: primed themselves for anti-Muslim backlash in US.
4:47 PM Nov 18th
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The social movement of people speaking across faiths was hard to cover as a journalist. It's hard to write stories about people talking.
4:44 PM Nov 18th
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Gustav Niebuhr--religion journalist, author, and professor of media--at Trinity Cathedral now. Left NYT to write about interfaith issues.
4:44 PM Nov 18th
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