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Go to the Speaking of Faith: Religion and Our World in Crisis. Image captions: Left: An Afghan boy reads the Holy Qur'an with a teacher at a mosque in Kabul. (Photo: SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) Right: A Tunisian rabbi reads the Torah at a synagogue in Djerba. (Photo: FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images)
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"Predicate Theology" by Rabbi Schulweis
[http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/skirball/schulweis-predicatetheology.shtml]
This excerpt from the forthcoming Godliness: Translating God, by Harold Schulweis, concentrates on the religious language one may use in exploring a fruitful dialogue with non-believers and religious doubters.

Writings by Rabbi Schulweis
[http://www.vbs.org/rabbi/hshulw/]
Valley Beth Shalom features a collection of sermons and articles by Rabbi Harold Schulweis on topics ranging from interfaith dialogue to addiction.

Scholar of the House
[http://www.scholarofthehouse.com/]
A repository of academic papers and articles Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl ranging from commentaries on the Qur'an to issues of marriage and divorce.

Al-Maeda
[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/005.qmt.html]
This fifth surah of the Qur'an pointed by Dr. Abou El Fadl — titled Al-Maeda, The Table or The Feast — explicitly warns people not to corrupt and destroy the earth.

Tikkun Olam in Contemporary Jewish Thought
[http://www.myjewishlearning.com/daily_life/GemilutHasadim/TO_TikkunOlam/Contemp_Tikkun_Thought.htm]
A solid article presenting the thoughts of Jewish thinkers and social activists who have given new meaning to the Jewish concept of "repairing the world.".