“What I’m trying to do in my book project is a much broader cultural history about who is invoking religious freedom, who controls the definition in public discourse and for what purposes.”        

February 2012 Videos: (require Adobe Flash Player) After Babel: A Jewish theology of interfaith Truth & translatability The face of the other: The curious nature of biblical narrative Making Space: Does the Judaic model make sense in Christianity & Islam?

  1. Ravi Junior College, Nagpur, Maharashtra (January 12‐14, 2012) 2. KLE Society’s Law College, Bangalore (February 21‐22, 2012) 3. Banipure Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Banipure, West Bengal (April 21‐22, 2012) 4. Govt. Zirtiri Residential Science College, Aizawl, Mizoram (April 24‐25, 2012)   HRE Program report, June 2012 (PDF illustrated, 23 pages)               […]

Jos, NigeriaOctober 21-24, 2010 From the project website: “This hopeful documentary gives voices and faces to 200 courageous Muslims and Christians – diverse young women and men – who unite successfully in Jos, central Nigeria. “Refusing to be enemies, they are together during days and evenings of the 2010 International Conference on Youth and Interfaith Communication. […]

  Source: The Economist ‘Graphic Detail’ blog  (“If some of the overall findings might seem odd, then part of the appeal of the [Global peace] index is that readers can examine each of the variables in turn and think about how much weight to add to each. It is available to play around with..”)   […]

An around-the-world journey celebrating our Sacred Earth “Six-years in the making… seven continents… 24 countries” (C) Sean F. White Photography & Films      

2012 Annual General Meeting of the IARF British Chapter19 May 2012, Unitarian Church Croydon, London “Challenges to Civil & Religious Liberty Today” (350th Anniversary of the Great Ejection of 1662) Rev. Andrew Hill spoke on The Great Ejection in 1662, of two thousand Puritan clergymen from Church of England, which eventually led to the foundation of […]

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Baroness Warsi of the Conservative party summarises the situation, and the arguments. Forced marriage has always been a crime in spirit