Interfaith Dialogue

The modern ecumenical movement initially sprang from the missionary movement. This led to considerable struggle within the ecumenical movement over embracing interfaith dialogue as a main focus of its ministry. This focus was eventually accepted, and since then the ecumenical movement has done much to promote interfaith relations at the local, national, and global level; to struggle with the theological issues such dialogue presents for the Christian faith; and to collaborate with other religions to reflect on common issues faced by the global community. Current Dialogue has played a major role in promoting the dialogue concern.     

Obama's Interfaith Service Challenge: A Call for a New Theology of Service in American Higher Education

Abstract : President Obama's recent Interfaith Service Challenge issued to colleges and universities in the United States encourages schools to commit to year‐long interfaith service projects that engage constituencies across campus, across faith traditions, and across the wider local community. While they were included in pre‐challenge planning, university chaplains and religious life staff were omitted from the list of partners. This omission challenges college chaplains and campus ministers to articulate a theology of interfaith service that represents their enduring priorities to engagement across faith lines and in service to others. For Christians, such a theology could be based on the three key principles of imago dei, theologia crucis, and faith active in love.     

感恩

“你们要以感谢为祭献与上帝,又要向至高者还你的愿。”     

春雨的叮咛

今天是农历正月初九,玉皇大帝的圣诞日。雪从昨晚开始,一直下到今天中午,大约有两寸多厚。大地铺上了一张洁白的地毯,落了叶光秃秃的老树,挂满了想象,真有“冰柳垂腰迎远客,莲蓬玉立傲苍松”的意境。东北人见惯了玉树琼花,并以此为荣。西北人在干旱的季节里,见此情景,自然平添了许多欢乐。白天念经一直到晚上,感觉有点累,但是,看到这“瑞雪兆丰年”的美景,早把疲劳忘在了九霄云外。出家入道,就要坚定信仰。坚定的信仰会给你无穷的力量,这种力量,支持你去做分内分外的事,在付出之中,享受无尽的快乐。认定自己的所作所为,是应该做的,就不会后…     

感恩与祝愿——记福建省连江县基督教城关牧区大学生感恩崇拜

38位刚收到大学录取通知书的准大学生戴着红花，和他们的家长及各堂点教会的负责人，坐在教堂的前几排参加了隆重的首次大学生主日感恩崇拜。这是8月21日发生在福建省福州市连江县城关基督教会中的一件大事。它将成为城关教会历史上值得纪念的日子。     

The Integrity of Interfaith Dialogue

Since the second half of the last century, not only has there been much talk of interfaith dialogue but also meetings and activities aimed at promoting interfaith dialogue in general and Christian-Muslim dialogue in particular have become common phenomena. Despite the modest gains made through dialogue in promoting better understanding between people of different religions, dialogue has become increasingly vulnerable to popular mistrust in the eyes of many in the Western, but even more in the non-Western, worlds. Dialogue is perceived by many as an attempt to undermine faith in order to preserve interfaith harmony and to promote peaceful co-existence at the expense of honest engagement and discussion. To build confidence in dialogue amongst people from the non-Western world, I have identified five main issues that need critical re-examination, namely: theological issues and the general notion that truth claims are the main stumbling blocks to dialogue; the relationship between mission or propagation and dialogue; the challenge of inherited traditions in relation to the negative and hostile depictions of the Other; the burden of the past and the need to be honest with ourselves and partners in dialogue; and facing the challenge of re-examining our presuppositions about the Other in light of existential realities.     

Interfaith Dialogue and the Science-and-Religion Discussion

The science-and-religion dialogue has so often assumed that the key issues for discussion are those that have arisen within the Western Christian religious and intellectual tradition that little interest has been devoted to the possible insights that the presence of non-Christian voices in the dialogue might bring. In the following I explore the benefits of a truly multireligious dialogue on science and religion and offer a model for integrating various religious perspectives into the science-and-religion dialogue. Of course, taking the multifaith perspectives of the religions seriously also means making a dialogue between religions a component of the science-and-religion dialogue, and I discuss how such a dialogue might unfold along with key ideas that might emerge in ever more interesting ways once the dialogue begins.     

Interfaith Spiritual Care: A Systematic Review

Journal of Religion and Health - Although knowledge on spiritual care provision in an interfaith context is essential for addressing the diversity of patients’ religious and spiritual needs,...     

Interfaith etiquette in an age of Islamophobia

Islamophobia represents one of the greatest moral dilemmas of our time. Anti‐Muslim hostility and hatred, driven by racism, has manifested itself in exclusionary, discriminatory, and violent actions toward Muslims and those perceived as Muslims. By most metrics, Islamophobia in the United States is only getting worse. This article draws on Krister Stendahl's rules of interfaith engagement as a means of offering Christians a blueprint for how to reach out and engage with their Muslim neighbors in an age of Islamophobia.