Report

This toolkit includes resources from CRCC’s work. With it, we seek to guide faith leaders on their journey of reimagining how religion can be lived out communally.

Report

A global team of journalists and researchers at the University of Southern California produced more than 100 stories about people dedicated to working for positive social change as part of the Spiritual Exemplars Project.

Often underreported and unseen, spiritual impulses can move individuals and communities toward justice, equality and compassion.

Tools

Volume 3 of Healing Heartwork, Exploring Joy, will focus on humor and comedy in Islam, alongside other modalities for cultivating joy and lightness of being, both in our everyday lives and in our work in the world. 

Report

As we look back over the 30 years between the civil unrest of April 29, 1992 and Los Angeles’ current cultural landscape, three questions are on our minds: What was Los Angeles like in the years leading up to 1992? What lessons can we learn from efforts to rebuild the city? Who are the agents of positive social change today, especially among organizations rooted in LA’s communities of faith?

Tools

Over the month of Ramadan, AMCLI and Ch. Sondos Kholaki will explore loss in three parts, with each part focused on a relevant Ramadan theme: mercy, forgiveness and safety.

Report

This qualitative study examines how sisters and their organizations use collaboration and identifies ways that the Catholic Sisters Initiative can support collaborative efforts among sisters.

Tools

AMCLI launched a new series called “Healing Heartwork” in Ramadan 2021 focused on introducing Islamic tools for healing, grounding, centering, and exploring the self.

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