John Merkle, Ph.D.
Office: Quad 263
320-363-3925
Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning
P.O. Box 2000
Saint John's University
Collegeville, MN 56321
Retracing Jewish Roots on the North Dakota Prairie:
Stories and Lessons about Life, Family, and Faith
Presentation by Rebecca Bender
Monday, September 13, 2021, 4:30 to 5:30 PM
Qud 264, Saint John's University
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“Religion and race. How can the two be uttered together? To act in the spirit of religion is to unite what lies apart, to remember that humanity as a whole is God’s beloved child. To act in the spirit of race is to sunder, to slash, to dismember the flesh of living humanity. . . . As a standard of values and behavior, race operates as a comprehensive doctrine, as racism. And racism is worse than idolatry. Racism is satanism, unmitigated evil.”
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
National Conference on Religion and Race
January 14, 1963
All are welcome to view Visual Prayer,
an exhibit created by the Interfaith Artists Circle and sponsored by our center in collaboration with the Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies at the University of St. Thomas and the University of Minnesota Libraries.
"Why Christians Can Be Enriched
Through Interfaith Engagement"
Recent article by the center's
director John Merkle in the
journal Interreligious Insight
Please visit the website of the Jay Phillips Center at the University of St. Thomas
John Merkle, Ph.D.
Office: Quad 263
320-363-3925
Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning
P.O. Box 2000
Saint John's University
Collegeville, MN 56321