A year before the massacre at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue, a security director from the city's Jewish federation came to the house of worship to train its religious school staff and rabbi on how to respond to violent situations. At the time, Stephen Weiss...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis paid tribute Wednesday to Paralympians and refugee athletes, offering his best wishes for a successful Beijing Olympics and calling for sports to "make a more fraternal world." Francis told his weekly general audience ahead of the Winter Games...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Muhi Khwaja Muslims in America There are roughly 3.5 million Muslims in the United States and, as we celebrate and observe the tradition of Hajj this week ending in Eid ul Adha (August 11th this year), it’s important to recognize...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Kristine Ashton Gunnell, Ph.D. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant women reached out to women and children in immigrant neighborhoods, offering opportunities to develop...
As the Philanthropy Journal moves through a second cycle of our editorial calendar, we will periodically republish articles from our archive. Please enjoy this piece on StepUp Ministry that first published in March 2017. Special to the Philanthropy Journal By...
By Cara Lewis Jennifer Copeland is in her fourth year as Executive Director for the NC Council of Churches. Previously a United Methodist Chaplain at Duke University, she taught undergraduate and divinity school classes, served on committees and task forces, and...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Ann B McClenahan, ThD “End of life issues in many ways is like the North Star of Pastoral care.” That was the insight Dr. Phillip Mamalakis of the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology shared with the 150 people who...
By Jack Ahern At a recent Jewish family education class, Sarah Lefton, Founder and Creative Director of BimBam, had a chance to chat with a mom and her ten-year-old daughter. The mother was Jewish (although nonobservant and not well versed in Jewish literature or...
By Jack Ahern If you are lucky a night in November in Illinois is a little on the chilly side, more than likely temperatures will be near or below freezing temperatures. Bridge Communities, in an annual fundraising program “Sleep Our Saturday,” recruit some...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Donna Mickle Addiction effected the childhood of Dr. Ernie C. Mills in a way no child should have to experience. His father, a share cropper in Eastern North Carolina, suffered from constant gout pain and turned to alcohol...
