MHSA Honoree Spotlight: John Rosenthal

For the next three weeks, the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance (MHSA) will profile on its blog the honorees of the upcoming MHSA spring event Home For Good: Solutions Start Here. We'll share these profiles with you here on the SAM blog as well. Each year MHSA honors people and agencies in our community who have made outstanding contributions to ending homelessness. Click here for more information about this event.

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Humility and Interfaith Social Action

Do collaborations across religious boundaries exclude those whose belief systems value religious or philosophical certainty?

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Social Action and the Eastern Orthodox Church: Where Do We Go from Here?

In this week’s guest blog post, D. Vasilis Schairer, a graduate student at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, reflects on the history of Eastern Orthodox involvement in social issues and poses an interesting question: if a religious tradition places value on the “transformative relationship between two persons,” what challenges does that raise for religious communities in collaborating with nonprofit or government programs?

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Federal Budget Update: FY 2011

This update on the proposed FY 2011 budget was published today on the blog administered by the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance (MHSA).

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A Call for Guest Bloggers!

Last week, we began a conversation about how the language we use can help create—or at times hinder—social action efforts that are welcoming to people of all faiths and no faith at all.

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What’s in a Name? Help Us Reflect on SAM!

In recent posts, we’ve explored what it means for social action to be truly interfaith, and we’ve touched on some of the questions and challenges that arise in this work.

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Interfaith Social Action: A Common Denominator or an Opportunity for Understanding?

Interfaith work brings us into contact with people who follow the example of different religious figures and leaders, who believe in the truth of different scriptures and who follow diverse norms for religious practice.

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