Franklin College Interfaith

05/15/2014

The grand reopening of our meditation room was tonight! Thanks to all that came out for it.

05/09/2014

Our member Torie Zeiner gave a presentation at today's IHE Symposium on the hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. It was standing room only! Congrats on your hard work this semester, Torie!

05/07/2014

Meeting in our newly renovated interfaith meditation space, work still in process, we will have a re-opening on May 14th!

05/06/2014

Franklin Interfaith is building an interfaith library on campus, and we want your help.

Which books relating to religion, secular beliefs, and interfaith have you wanted to read or recommend to others? We'll buy it, so you can read it!

04/18/2014

Wow, check this short clip of spoken word poetry out, its powerful.

They were raised to see each as "the other." So they're performing together?

04/10/2014

Franklin College has collected more than 50 signatures pledging to stand against religious intolerance for Better Together Day. Will you stand with us? Stop by our table across from Jazzman's before 1 p.m. or visit http://www.ifyc.org/beblue!

When you pledge to on April 10th, you’re standing up for your friends, family, and neighbors of other beliefs by helping to change the narrative that different religious and non-religious traditions are doomed to fight. Being blue is a small action that makes a big statement: we’re all bette...

03/27/2014

Take this quiz see how you stack up against the rest of the nation in interfaith literacy http://www.pewforum.org/quiz/u-s-religious-knowledge/

How much do you know about religion? And how do you compare with the average American? Take our short, 15-question quiz, and see how you do in comparison with 3,412 randomly sampled adults who were asked these and other questions in the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey.

03/18/2014

Photographers captured these great shots of this year's Holi, the Hindu festival celebrating the end of winter.

Photographers capturing people celebrating Holi, the Hindu festival held every spring. What festivals have to photographed this year? Share them as comments. See more galleries: St. Patrick's Day Festivities | Rio Carnival

03/08/2014

Interfaith doing some great
planning for the rest of this semester !

03/03/2014

Happy Religious Emphasis Week! Here is a schedule of events.

Franklin College will celebrate Religious Emphasis Week with a series of events from Monday, March 3 to Thursday, March 6 in the sanctuary of the Richardson Chapel. Religious Emphasis Week is designed to raise the campus and community’s awareness and participation in religious activities and events....

02/24/2014

Some state contractors could discriminate against employees based on religion, under a provision slipped into a property tax bill today in the Indiana House.

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02/24/2014

At 11:00 a.m. tomorrow in the chapel, Dan Buttry will be speaking. Dan focuses on peacemaking and has worked worldwide in interfaith efforts and conflict resolution.

Also consider attending his peacemaking and conflict resolution workshop at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the chapel.