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Promoting unity among people of faith (or no particular faith) in the 21st Century.

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TnT and former Air Force chapels in ‘The Coastal Star’

August 11th · No Comments · Christian, InterFaith21.com, Jesus, The Coastal Star

Check out the links to my latest InterFaith21 offerings for The Coastal Star newspaper, including: This month’s Coastal Star, First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach’s Rev. Aaron Janklow and the popular TnT — or Twenties ’n’ Thirties — young professionals group he leads: Young minister succeeding on his mission And this month’s Look Inside our Places of Worship, the [...]

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Father-and-son Knights for Guatemala

July 2nd · No Comments · Christian, Delray Beach, The Coastal Star

My latest InterFaith21 offering for The Coastal Star newspaper: Monsignor Tom Skindeleski, of St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church in Delray Beach, leads his 9th annual Knights of Columbus father-and-son contingent in service to students in the rainforests of Guatemala.

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In Memorial: To Love beyond Death and Life

May 4th · No Comments · The Coastal Star, Unitarian Universalist

My latest essay at The Coastal Star.

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‘The Qur’an, the Media and that Veil Thing,’ Delray Book Club’s novel idea: Get Muslim woman’s view

December 31st · No Comments · Muslim, The Coastal Star, Women

A monthly book discussion group at the Delray Beach Public Library has been getting good reviews for addressing engaging topics. The latest theme: “ ‘The Other’ — Other Cultures and How We View Others,” was intriguing. So when I heard the title of December’s featured book, and Googled the author, I knew I didn’t want [...]

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Pastor Ted Bush and his First Presbyterian flock: After 25 years, it’s still about them (and the Cubs)

December 4th · 1 Comment · The Coastal Star

http://thecoastalstar.ning.com/profiles/blogs/church-marks-pastors Church marks pastor’s quarter-century How typical of Dr. Theodore “Ted” Bush: His church congregation was celebrating him. But he was celebrating them. That would be the First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach, whose members assemble at a historic site a block from the ocean, and whose letterhead proclaims it “The Community Church by the [...]

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Choices abound for celebrating winter’s holy days

December 3rd · No Comments · The Coastal Star

That hint to humanity in the annual convergence of winter holidays? It keeps getting louder and louder. This year is no exception. With Thanksgiving and Christmas, Hanukah and the Hajj, Kwanzaa, New Years, Three Kings Day and others in such proximity, conditions are great for all kinds of good.

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Muslim, Jewish communities unite: Twinning mosques and synagogues, JAM & All

October 1st · No Comments · Jewish, Muslim, Rabbi Marc Schneier, The Coastal Star

InterFaith21: Muslim, Jewish communities unite to find common ground By C.B. Hanif Sundown on Friday, Sept.18 marked the beginning of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. The next day, others began observing Eid-ul-Fitr, marking the completion of Ramadan, the Muslim month of rededication. Still others, including Christian friends (some of whom The Washington Post noted [...]

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Gratitude: for Florida Press Club recognition of my InterFaith21 column in The Coastal Star newspaper

September 24th · No Comments · InterFaith21.com, The Coastal Star

Professional awards and other recognitions always are special. Although not the biggest, this one is especially so. Not only for being bestowed by my journalism peers. And in a time of unprecedented change in our profession. But also for coming in a new venue, The Coastal Star newspaper. As well as a new arena of [...]

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Any congregation can: Delray clergy group plans ‘harvest’ dinner (Interfaith21)

July 30th · 1 Comment · The Coastal Star

This was posted this earlier, but here it is as my latest InterFaith21 column at The Coastal Star: It’s something that any congregation — or, better yet, group of congregations — can do. This time it’s the Delray Beach Interfaith Clergy Association. The idea germinated from photocopies of Peace Notes. And the note scribbled across [...]

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President Obama’s Interfaith Message in Cairo…

July 3rd · No Comments · As salaam alaikum, Barack Obama, Cairo, Christian, Dress, Enlightenment, Extremism, Holocaust, Interfaith, Kenya, Ku Klux Klan, Liberalism, Muslim, Quran, Race, Renaissance, Slavery, The Coastal Star, The Huffington Post, Women

this month’s InterFaith21 column, is at The Coastal Star: There he was in Cairo, our president, stealing our lines: Uniting people of faith, or no particular faith, in the 21st century. President Barack Obama bestrode multiple worlds, representing Americans in ways that hasn’t happened since … ever….he not only explained Islam to Americans, and America [...]

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