The New Mexico Interfaith Dialogue’s 2017 Colloquium — Prophets and Mystics: Ancient Light for Today’s World — was a resounding success. The event sold out, and about 200 people attended. Our three knowledgeable speakers provided though-provoking presentations and participated in a panel discussion fielding audience questions. The speakers were Rabbi Paul Citrin, one of the co-founders of the Jewish-Catholic Dialogue, […]

We have good news, and we have bad news. Interest in the New Mexico Interfaith Dialogue’s Spring Colloquium is so high, registrations have already reached our maximum seating capacity of 185. Any registrations received after today, February 21, will be held for a waiting list. The online PayPal option has been removed from the Colloquium web […]

Albuquerque’s faith communities can help their congregants get an important conversation started around Advance Care Planning and health care decision making. Having these conversations before someone is seriously ill can help families and loved ones make better decisions with guidance from their trusted clergy. On Wednesday, February 22, faith leaders from multiple religions will come together at the New […]

The University of New Mexico School of Law will host the highly acclaimed international exhibit, “Lawyers Without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany under the Third Reich” from Tuesday, February 7, 2017 through March 11, 2017 pm in the Forum at the Law School, located at 1117 Stanford NE. Jewish lawyers in Nazi Germany were one […]

Albuquerque, NM — On Tuesday, January 31, the Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque (JCC) received a telephone bomb threat, which was part of a wave of similar bomb threats to 55 JCC’s across the United States over the past four weeks. “JCC gratefully thanks the Albuquerque community, including law enforcement agencies, for the support and […]

In a time of marked polarization and incivility in American public life, universities have a particularly important role to play as sites of civil conversation. The UNM Dialogue on Faith Traditions and Tools to Confront Hate will offer a panel with insights from the moral traditions we call ‘religions’ to confront polarization, incivility, and intolerance. […]

New Mexico Interfaith Dialogue Holds 23rd Annual Spring Colloquium A rabbi, a priest and an imam meet up and… no, this is not a joke. Rabbi Paul Citrin, Father Richard Rohr and Imam Taha Hassane are the featured speakers at the New Mexico Interfaith Dialogue’s annual Spring Colloquium on the theme “Prophets and Mystics: Ancient […]

The Congregation Albert Brotherhood will hold a Sunday morning potato latke brunch with an interfaith panel discussion on “Being Non-Christian in Albuquerque” on December 18 at 10:00 a.m. This timely program, a week before Christmas, features leaders from Muslim, Sikh, Hindu and Buddhist communities in Albuquerque speaking and answering questions. The brunch menu includes those […]

After the divisive, angry, hateful words thrown about during the 2016 presidential election, it is going to take some time and attention to heal. Here are three passages from the Torah, the New Testament, and the Qur’an that offer some ancient light on our modern times. Gail Rubin, the secretary-treasurer of the New Mexico Interfaith […]

Communities across the country are now gearing up for Conversation Sabbath 2016 – an interfaith celebration of the importance of sharing our unique preferences for end-of-life care. Clergy play a vital role in helping families navigate these difficult conversations and congregations are a safe and supportive environment for engaging in crucial conversations about end-of-life wishes. This […]