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But if we take a risk and open ourselves to new perspectives—new lenses on our shared life—we will see new places where creative community growth can happen. We will have the opportunity to express our own beliefs and values with others, as well as bring the best of our religious traditions to the task of addressing common problems, allowing others to see the world through our eyes.An interreligious lens is for all of us—for believers and non- believers alike; for those who regularly preach, teach, and lead sacred services as well as those who worship quietly in the back of the sanctuary; for those who nd holiness and meaning in community service and aid to others; for teachers and students in all kinds of classrooms; for neighbors and for strangers. For you and for me.All of us have ethics that shape our actions and worldviews that give us meaning. All of us have dehumanizing blindspots of religious bias and bigotry, which prevent us from fully seeing our neighbors. That is why ICJS works to share the benets of an interreligious lens with several audiences:▪ the general public ▪ congregational leaders ▪ clergy, chaplains, and religious leaders ▪ teachers ▪ civic and nonprot leaders ▪ seminary students and ▪ higher education facultyIf we want to create a multireligious democracy where people of all religions—including no religion—can ourish, we need to be able to see the world, and one another, with an interreligious lens.Irfan Malik Heather Miller Rubens, Ph.D. President, Executive Director and Board of Trustees Roman Catholic ScholarLooking through an interreligious lensIf you’ve ever had an eye exam, you’ve no doubt had the disorienting experience of having the doctor flip through a series of lenses, some blurry and disorienting, others better, until the right one clicks into place and you see the world anew. Interreligious encounters often provide a similar experience. Looking at life through a neighbor’s religious worldview can be like looking through a series of lenses. Some make things look fuzzy, while others provide a clearer perspective.Photo by Laura Urban.A Note of Gratitude from Heather: I would like to express my gratitude to Irfan Malik as he completes his term as ICJS Board President. Irfan stepped into leadership in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic moved us all into our homes and moved ICJS online. Yet thanks in no small part to Irfan’s partnership and guidance over the past three years, ICJS is a stronger organization, better positioned to make our vision of the interreligious society come to life.1

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For the General PublicConfronting Everyday Antisemitism & Islamophobia One need not be an expert on Islam, Judaism, the history of Antisemitism, or Islamophobia to say, ‘That just doesn’t sound right,’ or ‘Could you clarify that for me?’ when you hear someone say something that is ‘off.’ While it’s difficult to disrupt that conversation, you’re doing the work of repair because you’re giving that person an opportunity to change.”ICJS Jewish Scholar Benjamin Sax at the ICJS panel event, “Recognizing and Responding to Everyday Antisemitism and Islamophobia.”“Ben Sax in the ICJS Library. Photo by Bill Hahn.The Manekin-Clark Lecture: American Muslims at a CrossroadsDalia Mogahed of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) delivered the 2022 Manekin-Clark Lecture, sketching a vibrant portrait of an American Muslim community: American Muslims are young, well-educated, entrepreneurial, and religiously engaged.But she also told the gathering of troubling levels of Islamophobia, not just among Christians, but for Muslims as well. For young Muslims, this appears to be the fallout from “growing up in a country that has demonized their identity in popular culture, news media, political rhetoric, and in policy circles. Research suggests that this steady drumbeat of bigoted ideas and state actions has a detrimental impact on the target group’s self image and mental health,” Mogahed said.This level of Islamophobia should concern everyone, said Mogahed. “According to neuroscience, fear makes us more accepting of authoritarianism, conformity, and prejudice. Fear kills freedom,” she said. Dalia Mogahed delivers the Manekin-Clark Lecture at the Islamic Society of Baltimore. Photo by Michael Ivan Schwartz.2

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PODCAST: Charismatic Revival FuryKeen observers of the tumult at the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot would have noticed a number of prominent religious symbols and practices: people offering prayers and singing hymns, others blowing shofars. Who were these people and what did it all mean? ICJS Protestant Scholar Matthew D. Taylor was one of the rst to research and write about the role of Independent Charismatic Christians in the riot and their effort to restore Donald Trump to the presidency. Taylor created an audio-documentary podcast sharing his research called Charismatic Revival Fury (produced by Bradley Onishi) that included groundbreaking reporting and collected contemporary audio clips recounting the history and theology behind this Christian movement that until now has own under the radar of the media and general public.VIDEO: The Crusades in Popular CultureThe Crusades, with images of knights in armor mounted on horseback on a holy quest, seem irresistible. They endure in video games, children’s cartoons, and high school team mascots. But are the Crusades harmless? The concepts and language of the Crusades are weighed down with historical and cultural baggage that could unconsciously—or consciously—encourage religious bias or even violence.ICJS took on this Crusader legacy in a short video with a guide for group discussion. The Crusades in Popular Culture is an MINICOURSE: Who is Allah? Is Allah the same deity that Jewish and Christian adherents worship? Or is the God of the Qur’an totally other? ICJS Muslim Scholar Zeyneb Sayilgan addressed this question in her three-part course.“Oftentimes in interreligious spaces, we are very keen to nd connections and similarities and rush to the conclusion that we are all the same,” Sayilgan said. “The Qur’anic posture of interreligious dialogue is one that afrms sameness, but also maintains difference.”One participant found the discussion challenging, but enlightening: “It gave me a broader perspective of the Islamic concept of Allah and the Christian concept of God. I love classes that surface questions as well as answers.”Zeyneb Sayilgan engaging students in the ICJS Library. Photo by Bill Hahn.Crusader images such as this knight on horseback emblazoned with the Jerusalem cross endure in popular culture. Shutterstock illustration.Christian protesters blowing shofars at the January 6, 2021 Capitol Riot. Photo by Lloyd Wolf.Watch The Crusades in Popular Culture.Listen to Charismatic Revival Fury.150k+Downloads of Charismatic Revival Fury.educational video for congregations, schools, and other venues for group discussion. The study guide raises some tough issues, such as what does it mean when we call one group “civilized” and another “uncivilized?” Is violence justied to protect what we consider sacred?3

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For Congregational LeadersGrowing TogetherCongregational Leader Fellows teamed up to create interreligious events that drew their congregations into the experience of interreligious learning, dialogue, and action. For example, members of St. Francis Episcopal Parish (Timonium), Kol HaLev Synagogue (Lutherville), and Chase United Methodist Church (Middle River) gathered at the Filbert Street Community Garden in Baltimore’s Curtis Bay neighborhood to garden, paint benches, and sing together. In mixed small groups across the congregations, the participants shared what they learned about the surprising power of interreligious dialogue to build community and to increase their own religious self-understanding.Congregational Leaders Fellowship: Mutually sharing religious difference In the 2023 ICJS Congregational Leaders Fellowship, 32 participants from two mosques, two synagogues, and seven Christian congregations gathered regularly for six months, learning about each others’ traditions and exploring how each tradition strives to bring about a sense of belonging and flourishing for all people.Participants at the interreligious gardening experience. Photo by Angela Cava.Congregational Leaders Fellowship members engage in an exercise at the interreligious retreat. Photo by Bill Hahn.104Number of individuals in one of five ICJS intensive fellowships this year who invested at least 30 hours in interreligious learning and encounter.Photo by Angela Cava.I got to learn tons more about my own religious tradition, as well as Islamic and Jewish traditions. And to really appreciate listening and learning, not necessarily changing anybody’s mind, just appreciating who they are, where they are, and what their tradition is, and how we really can understand each other and listen to each other.”Janet Raffetto, a member of St. Francis Epicopal Parish, was a member of the 2023 Congregational Leaders Fellowship.“4

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The Chaplaincy Initiative: Serving Chaplains in Maryland Given the broad spectrum of people they encounter and minister to, most chaplains and spiritual caregivers are interreligious leaders by default. In the past year, ICJS launched the Chaplaincy Initiative after discovering there is no organization in Maryland providing training and networking opportunities to a multi-sector community of chaplains.Top: Alisha Wimbush, ICJS program director for religious leaders. Photo by Chris Hartlove.Right: According to the Chaplains in Maryland report, chaplains working for smaller organizations or in rural settings often feel more isolated and have less access to educational and support resources.Surveying Chaplains in MarylandICJS worked with the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab (CIL) at Brandeis University to conduct a survey to map and assess the needs of chaplains in Maryland. The chaplains surveyed reported that approximately 40 percent of their time is devoted to serving people from religious traditions other than their own. The survey also found that chaplains working in rural Maryland settings often feel more isolated and have less access to resources; chaplains from across the state welcomed opportunities to connect with others in the eld both formally and informally.The Chaplaincy Initiative is working to meet these needs. In one of the rst programs aimed at chaplains and spiritual caregivers, Alisha Wimbush, ICJS program director for religious leaders, led a reection and networking opportunity, Reect and Refresh: Chaplaincy in our Interreligious World. This will be followed by a series of Lunch and Learn events in the coming year that will provide continuing education for chaplains.Funding for the Chaplains in Maryland survey was from The Bunting Foundation.For Clergy, Chaplains, and Religious Leaders40%Percentage of time chaplains report serving people not from their own religious traditions.Highlights from Chaplains in Maryland Survey▪ Most paid chaplains are concentrated in the healthcare sector.▪ Most volunteer chaplains work with state and local police.▪ Chaplains in smaller institutions, with a staff of just one or two, say they need more resources and training.▪ Chaplains say they receive the highest-quality support from other chaplains, and welcome networking opportunities.▪ Chaplains want more continuing professional development in dealing with trauma, interreligious issues, and interpersonal skills.See the Chaplains in Maryland survey here.5

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PROJECT: Creating an Interreligious Classroom LibraryTricia Van Wagner was determined to facilitate productive and comfortable discussions of religion in her classroom of English for speakers of other languages at Digital Harbor High School in Baltimore. Through her ICJS experience, she landed on the idea of creating an interreligious classroom library.The response from her students was enthusiastic, she said, as she described how one of the books, Other Words from Home by Jasmine Warga, quickly became popular because of its beautiful, poetic depiction of the journey of a Syrian refugee.“A few days after I placed the book on the shelf, a Muslim student from Jordan asked if she could take it home. I was thrilled and told her, ‘Yes, please do!’ I want students to experience positive representations of both their own and other students’ beliefs.”Anntasia Brown used ICJS support to respond to an incident of religious bullying in her classroom. Photo by Angela Cava.For Teachers16,500+Number of students impacted by ICJS Fellows (current + alums).Tricia Van Wagner created an interreligious library for her ESOL classroom at Digital Harbor High School, Baltimore. Photo by Angela Cava.Teachers Fellowship: Countering religious bias and bigotryFourteen educators gathered in the 2022-23 ICJS Teachers Fellowship to learn how to build religious literacy in their classrooms. They came from public, religious, and independent schools and teach many subjects: social studies, English, English for speakers of other languages, religion, and even probability and statistics. As part of their fellowship experience, each educator prepared an interreligious project for use in their own school or classroom, two of which are included here.PROJECT: Addressing Religious Bias in the ClassroomIt wasn’t long after joining the ICJS Teachers Fellowship that Anntasia Brown found she needed immediate help from her fellowship cohort. She was a new teacher in a Baltimore City middle school classroom when she heard a student making sounds and hand gestures to suggest throwing bombs and shooting guns— all directed at one of her Muslim students.After rst intervening to make sure her student felt safe, the rst-year teacher turned to her more experienced peers in the Teachers Fellowship to get feedback on the incident and her response to it. Together they discussed and strategized short- and long-term responses to religious bullying in the classroom that Anntasia is working to implement.Read Anntasia Brown’s Voices essay.6

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For Civic and Nonprot LeadersJustice Leaders Fellowship: Supporting religious diversity in the civic arenaDoes religion have a place outside of religious institutions? Absolutely! The ICJS Justice Leaders Fellowship is the program that equips nonprofit and community professionals to bring an interreligious lens to the work they are doing in the public square.Relentlessly curious; Extremely encouragedTorrey Snow is a host for the Torrey and Dan Show on WBAL News Radio and an ICJS Justice Leaders Fellow. He shares his reections on the fellowship experience:One of the things that I appreciate about this fellowship is that I get to talk with people that I know have fundamentally different perspectives. I am relentlessly curious and so every month I just feel like I’ve gathered something new.Most specically, I heard a presentation about how Judaism approaches issues like social justice and even heard about the diversity that exists within Judaism. It’s extremely encouraging to know that we’re all trying to work through these issues and trying to gure it out and coming up with solutions, and at the end of the day, hopefully working to improve things.Building interreligious capacity at nonprotsWith the support of the T. Rowe Price Foundation, ICJS launched a Capacity-Building Grant program for alumni of the ICJS Justice Leaders Fellowship (JLF) to equip these nonprot and community leaders to create a new interreligious initiative within their sphere of inuence.The awardees included Kathleen St. Viller Hill, a 2018 JLF alum and the executive director of the Elijah Cummings Youth Program in Israel, a leadership development initiative for high school students. Her project furthered the work of her organization through a youth-led podcast called “Justice is Not Just Us,” which facilitated conversations with teens about how they experience their intersecting identities, including race, religion, nationality, and gender.Torrey Snow in the studio. Photo courtesy of WBAL news radio.Kathleen St. Viller Hill reports on the results of her JLF Alumni Grant. Photo by Bill Hahn.89Number of fellows since JLF program inception in 2016.7

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Despite the diversity around us, we rarely have the opportunity to speak with other faiths so vulnerably, respectfully, and extensively. I am walking away with a clearer sense of the challenges, urgency, and hope interreligious dialogue entails.”Alex Malanych, Jewish student, Reconstructionist Rabbinical CollegeThis program is essential in training future leaders in the art of positive dialogue and sets a foundation for their future interfaith work.”Eamaan Rabat, Muslim faculty, RabataFor Seminary StudentsSeminary students learn the art of interreligious dialogueBuilding on a decade of success, ICJS expanded the 2023 Emerging Religious Leaders Intensive (ERLI) to include leaders-in-training from all three Abrahamic faiths—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. (Previously, the program focused on either dialogue between Jewish and Christian or between Muslim and Christian students.) This is important and necessary work because few seminaries offer such interreligious experiences. Participants described the ve-day, residential 2023 ERLI as intense, challenging, and transformative.Carrying out the course was made much more complex by including students of three faiths. “Doing a true tri-faith, or ‘Abrahamic’ dialogue is challenging, because there are so many issues and historical tensions among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. But this experience was all the richer for it,” said ICJS Protestant Scholar Matthew D. Taylor.The experience featured long days of discussion, interreligious experiences, informal conversations, and moments for prayer and reection.The 2023 ERLI included students from all three Abrahamic faiths—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Photo by Chris Hartlove.178Number of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish students who have participated in the Emerging Religious Leaders program since its inception in 2014.enjoy a breakfast conversation at ERLI. Photo by Laura Urban.““8

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Harvard Divinity School Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., delivers rst Silber-Obrecht LectureIn April 2023, ICJS launched the Silber-Obrecht Lecture as the rst endowed lecture in Interreligious and Interfaith Studies. Harvard Divinity School professor and Jesuit priest Francis X. Clooney, S.J., the inaugural lecturer, is a leading gure in comparative theology and Catholic-Hindu relations.In his lecture, Clooney provocatively asked the audience what theological insights come from reading the Christian Bible through a Hindu lens. To offer an answer, he juxtaposed 9th century Tamil poetry with passages from the Christian Bible. In her response, Shubha Pathak, Ph.D., Ph.D., of American University asked the audience to explore how humans deal with cosmic concerns, inviting us to explore tales from the Mahābhārata, a revered Hindu epic, and the Iliad, an ancient Greek poem. Together Clooney and Pathak highlighted the possibilities and challenges of interreligious textual comparisons.5Silber-Obrecht lecture partners: Goucher College, the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Loyola University Maryland, Morgan State University’s Center for Religion and Cities, and St. Mary’s Seminary & University.For Higher Education FacultyICJS FACULTY SEMINAR: Faiths & FerocityICJS brought together scholars working in the eld of interreligious studies with others specializing in genocide studies for an intensive week of study and fellowship at the rst annual ICJS Faculty Seminar. The seminar, titled Faiths & Ferocity and co-led by ICJS Jewish Scholar Benjamin Sax and Kate Temoney of Montclair State University, was designed to deepen scholarship, improve teaching, and bolster class syllabi with additional sources. Through long days of individual presentations and discussion, the scholars worked to deepen their understanding of the complicated role of religion in both fomenting violence as well as bringing about reconciliation in interreligious encounters.Faculty Seminar participants Kate Middleton (left) and Julia McStravog (right). Photo by Chris Hartlove.Francis X. Clooney, S.J., lectures at Loyola University Maryland. Photo by Michael Ivan Schwartz.WORKSHOP: Considering the QuestionsIn conjunction with the Silber-Obrecht Lecture, a group of university faculty and graduate students convened in the ICJS Library for a day-long workshop with Francis Clooney, S.J., and Shubha Pathak, Ph.D., Ph.D., to consider big questions generated from the lectures: What is the role of autobiography in determining identity? What happens when we focus too much on our own narratives and journeys? How do we make room for other people’s journeys and stories?The Rev. Francis Clooney, S.J., center, engages fellow scholars at the Silber-Obrecht Workshop. Photo by Chris Hartlove.It gave me new insight of how to ‘cross over’ into other traditions to learn about and value them while still being able to ‘cross back’ into one’s own tradition.”Participant at post-lecture workshop for university faculty and students (survey response)“9

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Irfan Malik PresidentBonnie Clarke Vice PresidentArun Subhas TreasurerKristen S. Kinkopf SecretaryTrusteesRev. Scott AdamsNancy BryantMeghan K. Casey, Esq.Lisa K. BudlowAnthony DayAlan EdelmanRobert J. HallockTazeen Hashmi, M.D.David KuntzRev. Brent Laytham, Ph.D.Most. Rev. Denis J. MaddenLarry MoscowImam Tariq Najee-ullahAnna-Maria Gonzalez PalmerFarah Shakour-BridgesS. Qaisar ShareefLee ShermanThe Right Rev. Eugene T. SuttonOmar Zalatimo, M.D.Emeritus TrusteesJean Harvey BakerPatricia BatzaTaylor BranchThomas M. BrownEllen M. HellerLee HendlerKenneth KarpayJoseph M. LangmeadArnie RichmanRev. John E. RobertsPaula RomeRabbi Steven SchwartzSanford UngarLifetime TrusteesGeorge L. Bunting, Jr.George B. Hess, Jr.Charles F. ObrechtRabbi Mitchell WohlbergSTAFF Heather Miller Rubens, Ph.D. Executive Director and Roman Catholic ScholarAngela Cava Communications and Development AssociateFatimah Fanusie, Ph.D. Program Director for Justice LeadersChristine Gallagher Head of Programs Program Director for Teachers and SchoolsChristine Krieger Program Director for CongregationsJohn Rivera Director of Communications and MarketingBenjamin Sax, Ph.D. Head of Scholarship Jewish ScholarZeyneb Sayilgan, Ph.D. Muslim ScholarMatthew D. Taylor, Ph.D. Protestant ScholarLaura Urban Director of DevelopmentAlisha Wimbush, Th.D. Program Director for Religious LeadersCatey Yost Operations AssociateMelissa Zieve Senior Director for Program, Scholarship, and OperationsTrustees and StaffANNUAL REPORT CREDITSDesign Glenn Dellon, Dellon DesignText John RiveraCover Illustration Stephanie ShaferICJS.ORG

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ICJS VALUESDIFFERENCE Religious difference is integral to life in the United States. Each religious tradition and community exists within a mosaic of cultural, historical, social, ethnic, and racial contexts. We believe engaging religious difference is necessary and transformative.EQUITY We engage religious difference in a society marred by inequities rooted in race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, abilities, socioeconomic status, and other differences. These inequities should have no inuence on how we value each other. However, our religious traditions continue to be complicit in the perpetuation of these inequities, and interreligious dialogue often reects them. We refuse to privilege any individual’s or community’s perspective or to interpret their experiences for them. We commit to fostering a culture of equity and inclusion in interreligious conversations.DIALOGUE Dialogue invites us to bring our commitments to each conversation and calls for patience, humility, curiosity, and courage. The outcome of dialogue does not require agreement, and meaningful relationships can exist even where there are irreconcilable differences. We believe that dialogue around religious difference deepens understanding and is an essential tool for connecting communities.LEARNING We use scholarly and educational resources to challenge religious bigotry and to confront the historical injustices that have divided our religious communities. Through the give-and-take of learning together, our understanding of ourselves and others expands through a process of encounter, translation, interpretation and/or misinterpretation; and clarication. We endeavor to create learning spaces where productive discomfort stretches us toward mutual discovery and deepens relationships.COMMUNITY Responsible civic life requires more than tolerance and coexistence. It requires participation in community, respectful dialogue, mutual understanding, and exibility with resources and positions. We build robust interreligious communities that interweave the civic, educational, and religious dimensions of our lives together.ICJS.ORG

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