Meet a religious peacemaker who wants to celebrate our uniqueness
By David Crumm, Read the Spirit, December 2009
Looking to Other Religions, and to Atheism, for Clarity in Faith
By Peter Steinfels, Beliefs Column, New York Times, November 2009
Atheism 3.0 finds a little more room for religion
By Daniel Burke, Religion News Service, USA Today, October 2009
"On the flip side, atheists too, can be a "blessing" for believers, said Samir Selmanovic, co-founder and co-leader of New York's interreligious Faith House Manhattan and author of It's Really All About God: Reflections of a Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian... Atheists are 'God's whistle-blowers,' who keep believers honest and focused on the here-and-now, Selmanovic said. 'Atheism at its best grabs us by the collar and throws us to the ground, demanding to see lives well lived, forcing us to dig deeper and live up to the best of our own religions,' he writes."
Stories from Global Victims of Climate Change — And an Interfaith Call to Action
By Juliet rabia Gentile, GOD'S politics, Sojo.net, October 2009
The 'Emergent Church' - Growing But Hard to Define
By Lisa B. Hamilton, Episcopal Life Online, March 2009
Samir Selmanovic and the Story of Seeing "God In the Other"
By Sheryl Fullerton, ReadTheSpirit, January 2009
"ReadTheSpirit’s central mission is to help you make spiritual connections through media, so today we invited Sheryl Fullerton to share an interfaith story with us. Sheryl is a major figure in spiritual media. She’s the executive editor for spirituality and religion at Jossey-Bass, an imprint of John Wiley & Sons. We asked Sheryl how she sees interfaith work at the moment — and specifically to tell us about a book she has chosen to publish with Samir.
Pastor Creates Interfaith Church Where `Christians are not in charge’
By Nicole Neroulias, Religious News Service, October 2008
NEW YORK -- "A Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Buddhist and an atheist walk into a prayer meeting. Any number of punch lines could follow, but the members of Faith House Manhattan have serious business in mind:...."
Seattle's Interfaith Amigos
By Amy Frykholm, Christian Century, August 2008
"grassroots efforts have sprung up in many places. The old-style interfaith roundtables in which academics or religious leaders gathered to discuss their theological differences in formal meetings have given way to more informal efforts. These are often led or developed by laypeople, as in the case of the Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago, the Faith House in Manhattan, Women Transcending Boundaries in Syracuse and Daughters of Abraham in Detroit."
Faith House Media Advisories
Launch Advisory (September 2008)
Faith House Contacts
Samir Selmanovic, Founder and Christian Co-leader
samir@faithhousemanhattan.org
Juliet rabia Gentile, Islamic Co-leader
rabia@faithhousemanhattan.org
Bowie Snodgrass, Director
bowie@faithhousemanhattan.org
Rabbi David Ingber, acting Jewish Co-leader
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