Tag: religious literacy

While Gonzaga hosts a screening of a climate change documentary and 350 Spokane Interfaith Committee wants to help churches and faith communities really understand the climate crisis, the Carl Maxey Center announces their acting executive director, the Spokane Police Department gains a refugee volunteer officer, Sravasti Abbey hosts a Sharing the Dharma Day, and so much more in this week’s Religion News Roundup.

While diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are radiating into large and small companies alike, religion is severely underrepresented in these initiatives at a ratio of 34:1. It is often still the expectation to “leave religion in your place of worship,” not only in American offices but in the democratic public sphere as well.

I don’t ever want to be tolerated; I want to be accepted. Who doesn’t?