Resources for Human Flourishing
Partnering with the Center for Interfaith Relations, we are a proud supporter of the The 24th Annual Festival of Faiths, held April 25-27, 2019 in Louisville, Kentucky, and this gave us the opportunity to create a special resource list for conference attendees and our online community.
Festival of Faiths
The 2019 festival will explore wisdom present at the intersection of faith and science; ancient and modern questions at the heart of human existence; and space where reason and revelation co-exist.
Dialogue, music, poetry, film, and art with spiritual leaders, teachers, and practitioners.
Sacred Cosmos: Faith and Science
Partnering with the Center for Interfaith Relations, we are a proud supporter of the The 24th Annual Festival of Faiths, held April 25-27, 2019 in Louisville, Kentucky, and this gave us the opportunity to create a special resource list for conference attendees and our online community.
Study of Spirituality in America Advisory Group
The advisory group for the Fetzer Institute Study of Spirituality in America convenes to review qualitative research conducted late 2018 and early 2019 as they begin to formulate a fielded survey for summer 2019. This study seeks to explore how Americans view and practice spirituality within and outside traditional religions, including how they exercise their spirituality in civic life.
Courageous Pluralism on College Campuses
Eboo Patel, founder of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) has devoted his life to the promise of a pluralistic American society, a potluck of flavors to nourish us all and stimulate taste buds beyond a bland melting pot of assimilation. Community and collaboration are at the heart of this vision, Patel asserted at the close of a recent IFYC training for campus leaders. Their schools will be paired for an 18-month exploration of “courageous pluralism,” supported by the Fetzer Institute and the Charles Koch Foundation.
Spirituality and Community
What spiritual presence or practice do you bring to the communities you belong to and why? Fetzer gathered people from various traditions to talk about how they nurture the spiritual dimension while in community. View the whole series, here.
Where Science, Spirituality, and Storytelling Meet: Introducing the Study of Spirituality in America
Recent research has led to a narrative that church attendance in the United States is decreasing, and that more and more people consider themselves “spiritual.” But what does this mean—and why does it matter?
We know there is more to the story, but there is little research into the range of perspectives behind these words and what this means for our personal, communal, and societal wellbeing. So, in the spirit of inquiry and embracing the unknown, we are working on our inaugural Study of Spirituality in America.
Rabindranath Tagore on faith
In your darkest moments, how has your sense of something greater—whether the divine, in whatever form that takes for you; love; or nature—lifted you?
Nobel Peace Laureates: Adolfo Esquivel on Silence, Meditation and Light
The Promise of Inclusion, the Power of Love: Pursuing Global Understanding, Reconciliation, and Change
The Parliament is the oldest, largest, most diverse and inclusive global interfaith event. Join us in Toronto for The Promise of Inclusion, the Power of Love: Pursuing Global Understanding, Reconciliation, and Change. Fetzer is title sponsor for the Sacred Music Concert on November 4; our program staff will be presenting in sessions on democracy and spirituality; and we will be supporting our partners throughout the conference. Look for live-streaming details.
Study of American Spirituality Advisory Group Meeting
How do people in America view and practice spirituality within and outside traditional religions? How do we exercise our spirituality in American civic life and in our ongoing needs and challenges? Advisors gather to develop a study to aid in understanding the language of religion, faith, and spirituality and the role it plays in daily life in America.