Timothy Knepper

On May 13, from 2:30 – 5:30 pm, Masjid an-Noor (1117 42nd St, Des Moines) will host an Eid party and open house. Come meet the rich, multi-ethnic Muslim community […]

On April 20 at 7:00 pm, in the Reading Room of Cowles Library, Zhange Ni, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature at Virginia Tech University, will lecture on “Gender, Sexuality,

On Sunday, April 16, we will celebrate the annual holiday of Vaisakhi from roughly 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm with the Sikh gurdwara in West Des Moines, the Iowa Sikh

On Thursday, February 23, from 7:00–8:30 pm, in the Reading Room of Cowles Library, we host our first scholar lecture of the semester in our “Transhumanism, Religion, and Immortality Series.” Gereon Kopf, Professor of Religion at

On Sunday, February 19, from 3:00–5:00 pm, we kick off our Spring 2023 programming with “Roads to Religion,” a two-hour open house at which visitors can meet members of 30 local religious communities collectively representing

On May 11, from 7:00–8:30pm in the Reading Room of Cowles Library, we host the third lecture of the semester, “Sexbots Playing the Imitation Game: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and the Turing Test

Our Meet My Religious Neighbor series resumes, this time in collaboration with the Des Moines Area Religious Council and Interfaith Alliance of Iowa. Please join us on Saturday, September 14th at

On Wednesday, July 17th, The Comparison Project and the Des Moines Area Religious Council begin our third annual “Interfaith Youth Leadership Camp,” with 26 youth campers of different religious (and

Please join us on Sunday, April 7th at 9:30 a.m. for a visit to St. Demetrius Serbian Orthodox Church (4655 NE 3rd St, Des Moines). Although the priest is ill