In 2014, Rabbi Hayim Herring, PhD and Ellie Roscher co-edited Keeping Faith in Rabbis, a wonderful compilation of essays focused on what is involved in developing rabbinical leadership in the 21st century. One of those fine essays, “Preventing Clergy Sexual Abuse” by Rabbi Ellen Lewis, seems extremely timely and relevant these days in light of […]
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Mualla Selçuk, Halis Albayrak and John Valk announced a number of months ago that their book ( An Islamic Worldview from Turkey: Religion in a Modern, Democratic and Secular State) would soon be published. They would now like to announce that it has been published and is available for purchase, either as hardcopy or ebook. Furthermore,
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The McKnight Foundation of Minnesota seeks a multimedia storyteller. The newly created position reports to the communications director. The position creates and oversees the development of varied digital content types and message channels to promote McKnight’s credible influence, share insights from our staff, and offer transparency and clarity about our goals and activities. This is
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The McKnight Foundation in Minnesota is seeking to hire for a newly created staff position focused on learning. The Strategic Framework and our approach to emergent learning and adaptive action demonstrate the foundation’s deep commitment to strategic learning as a means to achieve its core values of accountability, integrity, innovation, and respect in pursuit of
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Dear Colleagues: Nazareth College, Hickey Center for interfaith Studies and Dialogue is pleased to announce its 5th international conference on Sacred Texts and Human Contexts: Religions and the (De) Legitimization of Violence on July 29-31, 2018. The Conference is open to scholars in religious, theology, women and gender studies and social scientists from US and
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At our recent meeting in St. Louis, the REA Board decided to encourage people to write letters informing the US government about our concern over the travel ban. Several members of our association were not able to be with us in St. Louis — one in particular had a visa denied — and we all
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We are beginning to post photos from our recent meeting at our facebook site. Please send us photos! We’d love to have more to use, both on our website and in our eREACH newsletter. You can send them (via email, dropbox link, and so on) to Mary Hess, our Networking Coordinator.
REA member dr. K.H. (Ina) ter Avest is guest editing a special issue of the journal Education Sciences. She invites people to respond to the call for papers, noting the December 15th deadline. More information is available online.
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The call for papers for the upcoming Association of Practical Theology meeting has just been released. You can find the entire call online, but note that the theme of the biennial meeting to be held at Yale from April 13-15, 2018 is “Making Justice: Practical Theology, the Arts, and Transformation.” Deadline for submissions is December
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The 221st (2014) General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) adopted a resolution titled “The Global Crisis for LGBT People and Their Families: A Presbyterian Church (USA) Response.” The resolution acknowledges the illegality of homosexuality in 81 countries and the persecution LGBT persons face across the globe. The resolution also encourages Presbyterians to hold in
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