Stories Across the Divide
November 9, 2016
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INTERRELIGIOUS CLERGY AND LEADERS CONVENE AT HEBREW COLLEGE COLLOQUIUM: STORIES ACROSS THE DIVIDE
(NEWTON CENTRE, Mass.) — Over 100 local clergy, students and community leaders representing a wide variety of faiths came together on Monday morning at Hebrew College for a Boston Theological Institute colloquium. The gathering was hosted by Hebrew College, Boston University School of Theology (BUSTH) and Andover Newton Theological School (ANTS).
In the colloquium, Stories Across the Divide: Personal Narrative and Interreligious Leadership, participants explored the use of personal narrative for meaningful communication in interreligious leadership.
Featured presenters were Catherine Burns, artistic director of PBS’s Peabody Award-winning The Moth Radio Hour and the Boston Globe’s James Carroll, an acclaimed writer and journalist.
Rabbi Or Rose, director of the Miller Center for Interreligious Learning and Leadership at Hebrew College, and one of the event organizers, commented on the gathering, “Catherine Burns and James Carroll both expertly guided us in the art and craft of storytelling as a vehicle for sharing our core values and commitments, and learning to hear the voices of others. It was an honor to host this event on our campus, and to work with outstanding partners from BUSTH and ANTS in planning it.
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Hebrew College, founded in 1921, promotes excellence in Jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor, personal engagement and spiritual creativity. Its programs include a Rabbinical School, a School of Jewish Music, a School of Jewish Education, and graduate degrees and courses in Jewish studies; community education for adult learners; and a supplemental Hebrew high school and middle school. For more information, visit www.hebrewcollege.edu.