interfaith dialogue

Tyler Mayfield offers a fresh look at Cain, Ishmael, and Esau.

Tal Howard offers a carefully researched history, from the Mughal Empire to Nostra aetate and beyond.

The dialogue was good. The meal was even better.

Both Amir Hussain and Eboo Patel model interfaith bridge-building in their writing.

Our collective panic is hurting us. Can faith help?

“According to Islam, Jesus always speaks the truth. The question is how we understand it.”

Canadian pastor Brian Arthur Brown presents the sacred scriptures of four Eastern faith traditions alongside critical essays about the texts.

What's the biblical God's essential characteristic? According to Cobb, it's the loving care a mother or father gives an infant.

We were seated on chairs arranged in a circle in the aptly named Hospitality Room, men and women from Iran, Indonesia, Egypt, Japan, and the U.S. We were reading the Qur’an. Some were Muslims who many people would not consider Muslim; others were Christians who many people would not consider Christian.

"Buddhism has not just provided the flashlight with which I have discovered what was in the Christian basement. It has also added to that basement."

It was the shortest Vatican II document but among the most influential. Whatever its limits, it was a watershed in Christian-Jewish relations.

Muslims have been in our town for a while, but the mosque is new. Last spring our church paid a call on our neighbors there.

Engagement in serious, respectful conversation with other religious traditions is important and urgent. Leo Lefebure details why it’s also difficult.

"I hope the shootings in Oak Creek will lead to interfaith education around the state," says Scott Anderson, director of the Wisconsin Council of Churches. "There is a hunger for this kind of engagement."

Following the attacks of 9/11, the congregation I serve became aware that though it has a longstanding relationship with a nearby synagogue, it has had no ongoing connection with Muslims.