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Surprised by Grace

December 6, 2022 Ann Delorey Category: Reflections

By Rev. Carole A Crumley Some years ago I was in a bicycle accident and broke my left leg at the knee. I went home from the hospital to spend the next six weeks on crutches. I had been accustomed…

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My First Encounter with IFC

November 10, 2022 Ann Delorey Category: Reflections

By Bill Aiken, former IFC Board member My first encounter with the IFC was on an early spring evening in the mid-1990’s, when I attended a springtime interfaith dialogue organized by the IFC on the campus of Howard University.  There…

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Food for Thought

October 4, 2022 Ann Delorey Category: Reflections

By Mandana Dehghanian, IFC Board Member “I don’t know” was my response to my son, when he asked, “What happens when someone dies?” What happens after death? Where do we go? Are we just worm meal?” I don’t know. No…

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What Can We Learn About Faith from Other Spiritual Paths?

September 6, 2022 Ann Delorey Category: Reflections

  By Rabbi Gerry Serotta, Former Executive Director, IFC This year 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the IFC Unity Walk. Living in Washington, DC, we sometimes take for granted that we can walk down a main thoroughfare of our…

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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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