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New Film Explores Life Of Key Figure In Catholic-Jewish Relations May 12, 2021
Abraham Joshua Heschel, far right, marches with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and others in Selma, Ala., in 1965, which is featured in Martin Doblmeier’s 2021 documentary “Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story.” Heschel was a moral theologian and expert on the prophets who also played a key role in Jewish-Catholic relations and the Vatican II document on that topic. (Photo: CNS/courtesy Journey Films)
NEW YORK When filmmaker Martin Doblmeier considers the interfaith growth between Catholics and Jews, Pope Francis’ October 2018 Angelus prayer for the 11 victims of the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh comes to mind.
Tennessee s latest anti-protest bill is an assault on our freedom to pray | Opinion
Fifty-eight Tennessee pastors sign on to a letter calling on state lawmakers to reject a bill that would increase penalties for street protestors.
58 clergy men and women from across Tennessee
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The 58 clergy men and women represent congregations in East, Middle and West Tennessee. Scroll down to read their names.
(Editor s note: On Tuesday, the Tennessee State Senate sent this legislation to summer study, but it still could be considered during the 2022 legislative session).
An open letter to Lt. Governor Randy McNally, Speaker Cameron Sexton, and Tennessee state lawmakers:
.This is a movie poster for Martin Doblmeier s 2021 documentary Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story. Heschel was a moral theologian and expert on the prophets who also played a key role in Jewish-Catholic relations and the Vatican II document on that topic. (CNS photo/courtesy Journey Films) .This is a movie poster for Martin Doblmeier s 2021 documentary Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story. Heschel was a moral theologian and expert on the prophets who also played a key role in Jewish-Catholic relations and the Vatican II document on that topic. (CNS photo/courtesy Journey Films) .Martin Doblmeier interviews Susannah Heschel, featured in Doblmeier s 2021 documentary Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story. Susannah Heschel is a professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College and a daughter of Abraham Joshua Heschel, a moral theologian and expert
Even if the movement for reparations someday transforms the profound economic disparities that fall along racial lines in this country â addressing income disparities, the wealth gap, housing and health care inequities, and unemployment disparities â a fundamental problem of anti-Black racism still wonât be solved.
What remains is a fundamentally
ontological problem: the reality of the
being of whiteness, and its denial of Black humanity within white racist America.
White privilege, white immunity from systemic racism, white forms of racist habitual embodiment, white claims to âinnocence,â gatherings of white religious practitioners at monochromatic white places of worship, and predominantly white institutions where white students walk around their predominately white campuses feeling wanted and at ease â these are manifestations of white ontology, white modes of being.