http://www.jesuit.org/blog/index.php/2011/11/interreligious-dialogue-and-ecumenism-needs-to-be-priority-for-society-jesuit-says/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.jesuit.org/blog/index.php/2011/11/interreligious-dialogue-and-ecumenism-needs-to-be-priority-for-society-jesuit-says/comment-page-1/#comment-8680 Rabbi Abie Ingber Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:49:31 +0000 http://www.jesuit.org/blog/?p=4460#comment-8680 I am very heartened by this conversation. Our Jesuit university (Xavier, Cincinnati OH) has a formal Office of Interfaith Community Engagement. I am privileged to serve as its founding director. We are not the office of the "other", rather our leadership and our program attendees represent the broad spectrum of spiritual journeys and faiths at Xavier. More than 50% of our student leadership is Catholic, reflecting the fabric of the university. I was inspired in this work by two Jesuits - Fr. Edward Brueggeman of blesssed memory, and our university's president, Fr. Michael Graham. But the words of Fr. Hans Kolvenbach in his address at Xavier still resonate with me - "How can the dialogues of life, action, religious experience and theological exchange assist and deepen your experience as educators so that you might admit and take advantage of ethnic, racial, gender and religious differences among you?" That is indeed the core question; at Xavier University we are discovering answers each day - and a few more questions. I am very heartened by this conversation. Our Jesuit university (Xavier, Cincinnati OH) has a formal Office of Interfaith Community Engagement. I am privileged to serve as its founding director. We are not the office of the “other”, rather our leadership and our program attendees represent the broad spectrum of spiritual journeys and faiths at Xavier. More than 50% of our student leadership is Catholic, reflecting the fabric of the university. I was inspired in this work by two Jesuits – Fr. Edward Brueggeman of blesssed memory, and our university’s president, Fr. Michael Graham. But the words of Fr. Hans Kolvenbach in his address at Xavier still resonate with me – “How can the dialogues of life, action, religious experience and theological exchange assist and deepen your experience as educators so that you might admit and take advantage of ethnic, racial, gender and religious differences among you?” That is indeed the core question; at Xavier University we are discovering answers each day – and a few more questions.

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