Sacred Seeds: Children of Abraham Reading Text Together

Since 2008, ECRA has sponsored ongoing interreligious gatherings called "Sacred Seeds" in Edgewater. At each event, local leaders of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities discuss a chosen shared sacred texts and their tradition's understandings of the images, metaphors and purpose of these stories. So far, several hundred people from the neighborhood have been richly blessed by these encounters. Download some videos here.

Serving through Delegate Responsibility on Ward Zoning Committee

ECRA is a delegate organization to the 48th Ward Zoning & Planning Committee.

Care for Real

Check out the devoted and diligent outreach of our neighborhood's food and clothing pantry, Care for Real, which ECRA founded. It is now a program of the Edgewater Community Council.

Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service

ECRA Thanksgiving Service
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Time:
4:00pm - 7:00pm

Location:
Episcopal Church of the Atonement

On Sunday, November 22nd, at 4pm, the Edgewater Community Religious Association joined together in our annual interfaith Thanksgiving Prayer Service. This great annual event provides an opportunity to learn more about religious traditions represented in Edgewater (Jewish, Muslim, sometimes Buddhist, Catholic, Protestant, and more) and to gather with our neighbors of faith. The service features music and readings and stories from different religious traditions.

Bearing Witness Against Hate

Our "counter-protest" of love and tolerance when Westboro Baptist picketeers arrived in Edgewater.

Commitment to our Neighborhood

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Sharing Our Story of Interreligious Work

We shared some of our rich experience of interreligious encounter at the National Workshop on Christian Unity in 2008.