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Rabbi to speak at St. Thomas luncheon

American Jewish World by American Jewish World
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Rabbi David Wirtschafter will present “Responding to Contradictory Critiques of Contemporary Religion” as part of a lunch and learn program 12 to 1:15 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22 in the Fireside Room of the Murray-Herrick Campus Center at the University of St. Thomas, 2115 Summit Ave., St. Paul.

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A light buffet lunch will be provided free of charge by the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning, the program’s sponsor. Reservations are not required.

“Progressive approaches to religion are frequently attacked from opposite ends of the religious spectrum,” Wirtschafter said in a press release. “Staunch traditionalists accuse progressive believers of compromising essential truths of faith in the name of science, while impassioned secularists accuse them of not admitting that science invalidates religion of any sort.”

Responding to these attacks, Wirtschafter will defend the progressive view “that religious teachings need to evolve, and that religion and science can be complementary influences rather than competing ideologies.”

Raised in Minneapolis, Wirtschafter graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in English literature and from Hebrew Union College in New York with a master’s in Hebrew literature. He serves as rabbi of the Ames Jewish Congregation in Iowa and is actively involved in interfaith dialogue, social justice and community service.

For information, visit: www.stthomas.edu/jpc.

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