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Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 10.17.24 - Walking up to Walls

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Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 10.11.24 - What is Interfaith For?

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Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 10.2.24 - Southern Crescent Part III

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Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 9.22.24 - Southern Crescent Part II

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Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 9.15.24 - Southern Crescent

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Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 9.8.24 - DEI Criminal Part IV

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Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 8.25.24 - Comparative Religion

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Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 8.18.24 - The Problem with World Religions

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Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 8.11.24 - World Religion Crash Course

Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 8.2.24 - DEI Criminal Part III

Part III: The Gospel According to DEI Read DEI Criminal Part I and Part II A straight, white, Christian dude - ‘tis I! - perhaps more usually the profile of a pundit on fake news calling Kamala Harris a DEI hire than someone you’d find helping lead a university

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Faith in Diversity Update - 7.28.24

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Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 7.19.24 - Interfaith Bridges, from Iraq to the U.S.

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Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 7.13.24 - Action Figure Jesus

Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 7.6.24 - DEI Criminal Part II

Read DEI Criminal Part I If my religious background led me to value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, then professionally Interfaith work led me to engage religion in a DEI framework, before it was the political football it has become in Florida and other states. Hostile legislators and governors have declared

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Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 6.29.24 - The Democratic Diversity of All Things

On Jacksonville, Juneteenth and James Weldon Johnson's Birthday

I wrote this piece this week as part of my subscriber newsletter, but liked it so much, I decided to share publicly. Around the time I moved to Jacksonville, Florida, Dad introduced me to the poetry of James Weldon Johnson, particularly through his collection God’s Trombones and specifically the

Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 6.21.24 - DEI Criminal

Today is the free monthly newsletter for all subscribers. Starting in July, the free newsletter will come on the first Friday of each month. Today’s newsletter begins a special series. These are the beginnings of a book proposal - so I have you to thank for supporting me in

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Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 6.15.24 - Lift Ev'ry Voice

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Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 6.9.24 - People of the Recipe Book

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Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 5.31.24 - None of the Above

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Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 5.24.24 - What's in a Name?

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Faith in Diversity Newsletter - 5.19.24 - Welcome!

Thanks for subscribing! I'm Matt Hartley, and I'll tell you what I have told my students every day for the last two decades: it's good to see you and I hope you're doing well.  Faith in Diversity is an independent publication launched

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Launch Essay: Tables of Unlikeness

Adapted from an essay written in Summer 2022 We gathered after sunset, a mid-spring eve, a week after Pesach and Easter, in the month of Ramadan. I looked around at a table of fifteen university students, mouths stuffed with food, noses sniffing the coffee being passed around as a gourmet

Interfaith Lectionary Preview

This public post is a preview of the Interfaith Lectionary page on my website, available to paid subscribers. This page of the website will provide a brief monthly Interfaith companion to the Revised Common Lectionary, with quotes, commentary, and themes which could be explored to connect with wisdom and neighbors