ITEMS OF INTEREST July 26, 2010 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

with contributions from Nardine Saad, Molly Drobnick

A RABBI, A MINISTER, AND AN IMAM walk into a classroom and it's no joke.

The venerable Claremont School of Theology has taught Methodist ministers and theologians for more than a century, but in the fall they'll try an unorthodox approach: cross-training the nation's future Muslim, Christian, and Jewish religious leaders in classrooms scattered around Southern California as they work toward their respective degrees.

The experimental approach is intended to create US religious leaders who not only preach tolerance in an era of religious strife, but who have lived it themselves by rubbing shoulders with those in other Abrahamic faiths.

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