In an era where religious experiences often take place at venues and where concerts have replaced ritual, Rowan Williams, the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, came to Fordham University Church to make an argument for the relevance of the liturgy in today’s world. Archbishop Williams made his case in a lecture, “Liturgical Humanism: Orthodoxy and the […]
Month: October 2014
Challenging Extremism: A Religious Perspective
Introduction Imam Shamsi Ali, a Muslim leader who emigrated from Indonesia to New York founded the Nusantara Foundation in this city with its headquarters at 4 West 43rd Street in Manhattan in 2008. He invited me to a panel discussion on Tuesday, September 24, 2014 on the challenge of extremism. The discussion included some of […]