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Denied a Seat so We Built Our Own Table

August 1, 2022 Ann Delorey Category: Reflections

    From my perspective, faith based conversations, events and collaborations have almost always involved men making the decisions and setting the agenda. Majority of the time, women weren’t consulted or were considered lower tiered personnel who didn’t have a…

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Connection and Community

July 4, 2022 Ann Delorey Category: Reflections

By Anne Golightly, IFC Board Member For nearly the past three years, as a member of the Temple Open House planning committee of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I’ve been inviting people in the metro area to…

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Living Life Inside Out

June 6, 2022 Ann Delorey Category: Reflections

    I am a practicing Sikh, mother of two young adults, and a MD based Montessori educator. Life’s Progress directed inner work has been a subject of perennial interest for me. We all are living a fast paced life…

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Interfaith Was More Than What I Thought

December 16, 2021 Ann Delorey Category: Uncategorized

Growth occurs most often when there is pain. I don’t think I would be mistaken by suggesting that every language and culture has a saying or phrase that reflects this reality. In English, it is said “No pain no gain”.…

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Lead Kindly Light: An Interfaith Encounter in Jerusalem

October 13, 2021 Ann Delorey Category: Uncategorized

(Photos of Church of St. John the Baptist, Jerusalem, taken by the author) One cherished interfaith experience occurred when I spent a semester studying at Brigham Young University’s Jerusalem Center For Near Eastern Studies. One day a group of five…

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Practicing Hope in a Fractured World

August 30, 2021 Ann Delorey Category: Reflections

Each generation has its moments of historical reckoning that we remember and will never forget. Think for a moment about the momentous events that defined your life. Where were you, and who were you, when the world changed? In the…

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Bob the Interfaith Bridge-Builder

June 1, 2021 Ann Delorey Category: Uncategorized

By Bill Aiken June has arrived (along with a lot of noisy cicadas). A difficult school year is coming to a close as we emerge (like the cicadas?) from a lengthy underground hiatus brought on by the Covid pandemic. We…

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Race and Faith: Some Reflections Following on the Verdict in the Chauvin Trial

May 19, 2021 Ann Delorey Category: Uncategorized

By Rabbi Gerry Serotta, Former Executive Director, IFC The same week as the guilty verdict was handed down in the Chauvin trial, I had the opportunity to join faith leaders from several traditions at Masjid Muhammad, The Nation’s Mosque in…

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What I Learned from My Internship

April 21, 2021 Ann Delorey Category: Reflections

I will always remember what my mother told me before I started applying for my first internship. She said, “Izzy, a good internship provides you with experiences, lessons, and tools you’ll need to get a full-time gig in the future,…

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Rev. Dr. David Lindsey’s Concluding Remarks MLK Program 2021

April 14, 2021 Ann Delorey Category: Uncategorized

“As we head on our way, I want to encourage and challenge all of us on this call to take away at least one thing we heard today. It could be a moment that touched your heart; it could be an…

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A Message from IFC’s President

It is now that most every major faith celebrates this season as a time of rebirth and personal and collective reflection. We, at the IFC, are at a similar moment in our own journey. Read more

 

 

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