What is the the Qur’an? An Agnostic Jew Speaks. Lesley Hazelton at TEDx

My buddy Eboo Patel had several profiles done on him for his outstanding work in Interfaith community building. It’s a credit to him, his amazing staff, and the vision they are creating. An Effort to Foster Tolerance in Religion For a guy who is only 35 and lives in a walk-up apartment, Eboo Patel has already racked up some impressive accomplishments. A Rhodes scholar with a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, he has four honorary degrees. His autobiography is required freshman reading on 11 college campuses. He runs a nonprofit organization — the Interfaith Youth Core…

Mapping Religious Life in New York, Block by Block – NYTimes.com. Tony Carnes and I met for breakfast at Penelope, a homey little cafe across Lexington Avenue from First Moravian Church. Penelope sits one block north and three avenues east of Marble Collegiate Church, where Norman Vincent Peale preached for 52 years, and it is a 2.8-mile drive from Sons of Moses, the tiny Lower East Side synagogue where you can still hear Lithuanian Yiddish.  This is how Tony Carnes sees New York City. A Texas native, who came to New York as a young man to study at the…