Tag Archives: dialogue
Parliament set for October in Salt Lake City
The Parliament of the World’s Religions, a global interfaith assembly whose roots go back into the late 19th century, will convene once again this coming year in Salt Lake City, Utah from October 15-19. This is the first time since … Continue reading
ING site promotes series on First Principles
During this month of Ramadan, which ends around Sunday, July 27, ING, the nation-wide educational organization with its founding offices in San José, has been publishing a series of reflections on “First Principles of Religion.” Along with their educational Islamic … Continue reading
Baptists and Muslims in conversation
Earlier this month, I went to “Common Ground,” a gathering at the American Baptist Seminary of the West aimed at bringing American Baptists in the Bay Area together with local Muslims for the first time in a formal way. This … Continue reading
Welcome a new Interreligious Council
On Sunday, March 6, the San Francisco Bay Area will welcome its newest interfaith organization, the Silicon Valley Interreligious Council. Though the South Bay has a long history of collaborative work and mutual appreciation among the varied religious communities in … Continue reading
Celebration and Prayers for the People of Egypt
Many in the Bay Area have followed recent events in Egypt closely, watching as the Egyptian people came together to topple the government of Hosni Mubarak. Among the stories coming out of that effort were scenes of Egyptian Christians and … Continue reading
“Tolerance” is not enough
Rajiv Malhotra writes in the Huffington Post: Tolerance was a political “deal” arranged between enemies to quell the violence (a kind of cease-fire) without yielding any ground. Since it was not based on genuine respect for difference, it inevitably broke … Continue reading
SJSU students discuss religion in multifaith panel | News@SJSU
A panel at San Jose State University on Wednesday, December 1st, included representatives from Hindu, Sikh, Zen Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity. Two people representing Islam closed the discussion and the panel led a question and answer session. SJSU students discuss … Continue reading
Texas Evangelical calls for interreligious conversation
Evangelical Christians are often missing from interreligious dialogue- too often, dialogue is the meeting place for people on the liberal ends of all the various religious traditions. But in Northwood, Texas, about ten miles northeast of Ft. Worth, pastor Bob … Continue reading
Conference calls for Christian/Muslim “Crisis Group”
A follow up on last week’s note about the Christian/ Muslim discussions in Geneva- Reports are in from the “Transforming Communities: Christians and Muslims Building a Common Future” conference. The conference met November 1-4, 2010, and was convened by the … Continue reading
Muslims and Christians together
Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, recently called for closer cooperation between Muslims and Christians. He declared, “The changing geopolitical contexts provide more opportunities for various political actors to mobilise religion in power … Continue reading
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