Challah Rising in the Desert celebrates the history and people of New Mexico’s unique Jewish community.  In this new feature documentary, braided Challah bread represents five waves of settlement of New Mexico’s Jewish community including Conversos escaping the Spanish Inquisition 400 years ago, German Jewish pioneers of the Santa Fe Trail in the 1800s, scientists of the […]

The 2018 New Mexico Interfaith Dialogue Spring Colloquium “The Nature of Evil: What is Our Response?” was a big success! If you missed the event, you can still benefit from our speakers’ words of wisdom through these videos below. Please support the work of the nonprofit New Mexico Interfaith Dialogue with a tax-deductible donation through our […]

Tune in on Monday, January 22 at 12:15 p.m. MT for The Archbishops Hour on Catholic Radio to hear all about the NM Interfaith Dialogue’s Spring Colloquium. Host Mary Woods will interview Msgr. Bennett Voorhies, Director of the Office of Ecumenical & Interreligious Affairs for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, and Gail Rubin, past president of […]

The docudrama, The Sultan and the Saint, about Muslim-Christian peace-making, will air tonight, January 2 at 7:00 p.m. on New Mexico PBS channel 5.1 (KNME-TV). It will re-air on Friday, January 5 at midnight on channel 9.1. The Sultan and the Saint tells one of the great, lost stories from history — of Francis of Assisi and Sultan Malik […]

What is a saint? The concept of saintliness is understood differently in various religious communities. We use the term loosely in common language, such as saying my saintly mother.  Many towns have “Saint” in their names, but have they lost any connection to the saint for whom the community was named? Jews have a very […]

The next monthly New Mexico Interfaith Dialogue meeting will take place in the parish hall at the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church on Thursday, June 22 at 5:30 p.m. The church is located at 9502 4th St NW, at the intersection with Alameda Blvd. in Albuquerque’s North Valley. Look for this statue of […]