For years I have served on the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago, an interreligious group that addresses civic issues of common concern. The council began as a coalition of Christians and Jews, under the leadership of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, amid racial tensions surrounding the election of Harold Washington, the city’s first African-American mayor. Soon (...)
February 22, 2013
Books
Our Father
Inheriting AbrahamThe Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity & IslamJon D. LevensonPrinceton University Press, $29.95, 288 pp.
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