Here’s something from Rabbi Andy Bachman’s blog about the interfaith, anti-war service at a Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Fort Greene.

Growing up in Milwaukee, I always admired that the rabbi and cantor
of one of our Reform synagogues had an exchange with an African
American church in the city that consisted of the rabbi preaching and
the cantor singing in the church on Sunday a year with the pastor and
choir of the church doing the same in the synagogue on a different
Friday.

Last week, at the invitation of my new friend Rev.
Daniel Meeter of Old First Reformed Church, I was a guest at Brown
Memorial Baptist Church in Fort Greene for an ecumenical anti-war
religious rally. There was Jewish (moi) Christian and Muslim
representation in the pulpit that night. I was invited to give a
“meditation” on Psalm 24 which was a terrific honor.

I can’t
emphasize enough the importance of these gatherings in this day and
age. I know interfaith services are an “old idea” in American religious
life but you know what? We could use a few more of them these days. We
need the mileage we get out of them for building a more tolerant and
open society.

I had to run out after preaching–we had a board
meeting at Shul–so I couldn’t hear everyone, unfortunately. But if I
may share a word about my own experience of speaking from the pulpit in
a context in which there is every expectation of “call and response,”
allow that word to be EXCELLENT.

Jews: you are put on
warning. I want more responses, more amens, more “that’s right, Rabbi,”
from you all on Shabbos because I’m liking the feel of that. It
enlivens the inspirational moments of preaching and brings Sinai down
to earth in a way I had never quite experienced before.