Accessibility Adjustments Help

Toggle High Contrast

This button will darken the page's background color to black while making all text white. This high contrast will make it easier to read the website's content.

Toggle Page Zoom

This button will increase the size of all elements on the page.

Toggle Focus State

This button adds a visible focus state to all interactive elements when using the keyboard. This allows the user to know exactly where they are on a site while tabbing through with a keyboard. Note: this will only affect sites that do not currently have visible focus states.

Toggle Link Highlights

This button will add an outline to all links and buttons on a page that a user can interact with.

Accessibility Checker Help

Check Images

This triggers a check of all images on a page for either an 'alt', 'title', or an 'aria-label' attribute. Images that are purely decorative or do not include any information to convey to the user do not need alt text. In these cases, the alt attribute should still be present but should be left empty. Our checker will still flag empty alts as an error just in case.

Check Color Contrast

This triggers a check of all text to ensure that it's color has a high enough contrast against the color of the background it is on. In some cases our checker will flag contrast errors for text that is on top of an image or when either the text or the background element has a position of 'absolute'. In these cases it is up to the site administrator's discretion to determine if the text is legible.

Check Links & Buttons

This triggers a check of all the page's links and buttons. Links and buttons without text or an aria-label describing what the link or button accomplishes will fail. Without text (including hidden screen reader only text) or an aria-label, assistive technology will not be able to determine the purpose of the link/button.

Check For Duplicate IDs

This triggers a search for all IDs on a page. Duplicate IDs will be flagged as an error. Duplicate ID errors are known to cause problems for assistive technologies when they are trying to interact with content. SVGs tend to be a major source of this failure. It's beneficial to remove all IDs from SVGs before placing them on a page.

Manekin-Clark Annual Lecture

Inspiring the public to champion religious pluralism

The annual ICJS Manekin-Clark Lecture presents leading thinkers, scholars, and practitioners to help the public better understand religious diversity, and champion its importance to our shared public life.

The lecture is named in honor of two long-time Baltimore civic leaders, Bernard Manekin and A. James Clark, in recognition of their interreligious friendship. The lecture is made possible by endowment funds from the A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation and the Manekin family.

All lectures are free and open to the public.

The Manekin-Clark Lecture is an expression of the beliefs of Bernie Manekin and Jim Clark that we belong to one another despite our differences, that people of all faiths (or no faith) can challenge one another to live in ways that deepen our respective commitments, strengthen our communities, and respect the dignity of every person.

Heather Miller Rubens

ICJS executive director and Roman Catholic scholar

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Manekin-Clark Archives

Wake Up Running: A vision for connection and transformation

In his address, Dr. Walter Fluker shared his insights into the life and teaching of Howard Thurman, the challenges facing our democracy, and the call to congregate, conjure and conspire at the crossings.

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American Muslims at a Crossroads

Dalia Mogahed presented results from the American Muslim Poll, which places the opinions and demographics of American Muslims in the context of other religious communities. October 2022

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Recapturing the Prophetic Tradition

Dr. Susannah Heschel offered a friendly critique and challenge of interreligious dialogue, drawing on the legacy of her father, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, whose work and writings on the prophetic tradition offer a model to irspire and sharpen future dialogue. December 2021

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Religion & Politics in Transition:
The End of White Christian America

Robert P. Jones, Ph.D. Founder and CEO, Public Religion Research Institute, December 2019

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White Supremacy, Power, and the Role of Interfaith

Beverly Mitchell, Ph.D., Professor of Historic Theology, Wesley Theological Seminary, June 2018

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Banning Sharia

Anver Emon, Ph.D., Professor of Law and History; Canada Research Chair in Islamic Law and History; Director, Institute of Islamic Studies at University of Toronto, April 2017

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