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Religious identity: Who decides?
Sightings, a University of Chicago/Martin Marty Center publication, writes of the thorny dilemma currently being lived through in England around admissions to Jewish schools. Who gets to decide, when the competition is steep, who is Jewish? Is the test for that decision a practice-oriented test or a test of belief or a test of matrilineal…
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Pressing challenges panel
I’m very excited to announce that on Tuesday morning, November 9th, the REA Forum on Religious Education in Academic Disciplines and Institutions will host a plenary panel discussion (and then mini-plenaries, with one speaker per room) on emerging questions and pressing challenges in the field of religious education. We have a wonderful line-up of presenters…
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BSG at the UN
I’ve been trying to coax Ronald Moore, who is the producer of both Battlestar Galactica and Caprica, to come to our November meeting and talk about it. So far, no success (but he hasn’t turned us down yet!). In any case, for those of you who have no idea what Battlestar Galactica is about, you…