Be the Leader Your City Needs You To Be – Enroll now for the next ICLA
Throughout New York, clergy members, lay leaders and faith-based activists from every faith tradition are working to create positive change for our own communities and the city as a whole. But all too often we find ourselves working alone — without a strong network of interfaith ties, or knowledge of the city’s civic institutions. In this episode of our #InterfaithMattersPodcast, host Hanadi Doleh talks with three graduates of the Interfaith Civic Leadership Academy about some of the most useful (and sometimes unexpected) aspects of the academy, and what many NYC faith-based activists can stand to gain from participating.
Religious Literacy in New York Public Schools
In this episode, guest host Dr. Henry Goldschmidt talks with New York City Council Member Daniel Dromm, Rev. Mark Fowler, CEO of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, Dr. Pritpal Kaur, Education Director of the Sikh Coalition, and Aniqa Nawabi, Executive Director of the Muslim Community Network about New York City Council Resolution 1257, calling on the New York City Department of Education to offer age-appropriate religious diversity curricula for all public school students.
Whose Faith Matters? Protecting Religious Liberty for Everyone
In this episode, host AJ DeBonis talks with Liz Reiner Platt, director of The Law, Rights and Religion Project – a think tank at Columbia Law School – about ways religious liberty is threatened when it is equated with a single movement advocating for a narrow band of religious views.
Exploring Pope Francis’ Call for a Global “Culture of Encounter”
Rev. James Loughran, SA (Director of Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute) on Pope Francis’ remarkable 2020 Encyclical Fratelli Tutti (“Brothers and Sisters, All”).