Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Appetizers and sweets at 6:00 pm
Lecture
at 7:00 pm
Being
Religious in an Interreligious World
Interfaith encounter is the spiritual
adventure of our era. Rabbi Fuchs Kreimer will share her interfaith odyssey, which began in 1974 with Jewish-Christian
dialogue. Today, she is on a "steep learning curve" as she reaps the spiritual rewards of new friendships
with Muslims even as she confronts the challenges of Muslim-Jewish Relations. Through it all, she has been a teacher
of rabbinical students, searching for better ways to prepare Jewish leaders for a world of religious diversity. She
will talk about how this work has shaped her Jewish faith and the ways each of us can become more knowlegeable and active
in affirming the dignity of religious difference while working to heal our fractious world.
Fuchs Kreimer is the Director of Multifaith Studies and Initiatives and Associate Professor of Religious Studies
at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia. www.rrc.edu
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| Photo by Lorraine Chittock, PADIA, and Saudi Aramco. |
Sunday, March 29, 2009
"Friends
Talking," the Rector's Forum, 10:00 am
During early discussions
about her appearance in the lecture series, Rabbi Fuchs Kreimer asked about meeting Prof. Mohja Kahf, whose novel The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf the Rabbi uses in her classes. That query led to what promises to be
an especially lively Friends Talking presentation, as the two women are joined by Rev. Lowell Grisham for an interfaith dialogue
in real-time.
Mohja Kahf is an associate professor of comparative literature
at the University of Akansas.
This event is free and open to the public. Childcare is available in the church nursery. For additional
information about this event or about the McMichael Lecture Series, visit the church’s website, www.stpaulsfay.org or call (479) 442-7373. St. Paul’s
is located at 224 N. East Avenue, at Dickson Street, in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
