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Monday, February 18, 2013

DOUG PAGITT OF SOLOMON'S PORCH HOSTS "INTERFAITH STUDIES" WITH RABBI JOSEPH EDELHEIT

    Since about January 2011, the emergent Doug Pagitt of Solomon's Porch and the "Yoga Sanctuary" in Minneapolis, Minnesota has been in dialogue and conversation, (as emergents are known for), with Messianic Jews and non-Messianic Jews, such as rabbi Joseph Edelheit, and as shown in a previous post of ours of the 2006 YouTube video about "Synagogue 3000" at:


    This was first reported by Apprising.org here: http://apprising.org/2011/02/03/doug-pagitt-excited-about-interfaith-powwows-at-solomons-porch/.
    We are adding the applicable YouTube videos of Pagitt, Edelheit from Pagitt Radio on the "Progressive Radio" station (Love 105) in Minneapolis, for the world's edification and information to show the willingness of "Christian" and Jewish emergents to mesh their commonalities, if any, and if possible. The desire for these is "engagement" in an ecumenical sense to counter religious extremism in its varied forms, making "religion work through religious leaders who bring 'vision' to the text of Scripture", and "finding a new way of being religious", without giving up true Christianity and true Judaism as they interpret them, as heard here:

Edelheit's problem with Christmas submerging Hanukkah in an "assumed" Christian culture: