interfaith cooperation, especially in an era of global religious conflict?" Final inspiring dimension from history: the people who started those interfaith movements, they're our age,
Interfaith understanding and tolerance are critical.
For interfaith cooperation to become a social norm, it has to be a field and a movement that's as diverse and large and robust as, as any other movement; as environmentalism
of interfaith service.
like interfaith cooperation into things that they're already involved with.
with interfaith cooperation.
an interfaith service, and the President and Mrs. Obama were here and I said, you gotta wait till Air Force One is wheels up.
H uh yeah Interfaith dialogue is a lot easier for me than it used to be uh
hell um and today Interfaith dialogue is
Active in interfaith dialogue, Venerable Thubten Chodron also does outreach in prisons and maintains a busy
It was an interfaith group.
eighth annual Day of Interfaith Service and this year it had eight thousand people, right?
about the importance of interfaith cooperation?
Do an interfaith service project amongst Googlers and, and have it be open to people who, who are Muslim and Jewish and Evangelical and Catholic and Hindu and Buddhist and Humanist
in an interfaith project, right?
I think its called "Interfaith Nation."
I'm also a co-founder of Interfaith , the event that we organized after 9/11.
It's sort of like this interfaith version when Eliot translates it.
It's more like an interfaith Zen then strictly a Buddhist Zen.
So you say that there's this interfaith dialogue in all religion.
looks like when it comes to interfaith cooperation.
I was a member of an interfaith group in college, so I want to thank you for supporting the movement, but one problem we had, or that I observed in our small group, was we had
because as a southern baptist uh my main goal in Interfaith dialogue was to convince other people to become Christians so they wouldn't go to
But then you also said that you see an interfaith dialogue at the core of a lot of religions.
He found his calling through the promotion of interfaith dialogue, making the interfaith conversation as, as important and relevant as the environmental con-, conversation, the
team has made a big impact in terms of fostering interfaith dialogue on college campuses.
academic courses that builds peoples knowledge base and skill set in interfaith cooperation.
And that's the third part of the Interfaith Youth Corps strategy.
For interfaith cooperation to become a social norm, we need to have a critical mass of people who are called "interfaith leaders."
build a community of religion as a force for interfaith bridge building?
and creating an online community of people who believe in interfaith cooperation, given my very real experience of people responding to, you know, frankly, noncontroversial pieces
Nobody's giving me advice on how to build an interfaith movement online!
That's the kind of texture that I'm talking about for interfaith cooperation being a social norm. It means people have a framework of what it means to build interfaith cooperation;
Key strategy number one: We need to spread a message and shape a discourse around interfaith cooperation.
be national and international level org-, interfaith organizations that focus on high schools.
who they are so we have like many congregations around the country a lot of interfaith households and I make it a point of of making the non-jewish
But a church agency will also work with a mosque if you bring in a lot of interfaith groups.
So I talk about that story, and the rise of an interfaith movement among churches here, in churches and synagogues here in New England,
And then later, on I got very involved in interfaith work.
for The Washington Post in a, a blog that deals with interfaith issues. Today, he'll be speaking to us about his work through his non-profit, which is the Interfaith
The Civil Rights movement is an interfaith movement.
What would it look like for interfaith cooperation to have the same clarity of definition?
My 15 year old son or daughter, he or she participates in Interfaith Habitat for Humanity builds four times a year as part of the youth group of our temple.
my 19 year old daughter is on, she's the leader of the Interfaith Student Council.
So, if you have a generation of leaders who are imbued with the importance of interfaith cooperation, who develop some of the knowledge base, who acquire the skill set of interfaith
and to their communities and to their companies; they become interfaith leaders.
and say, "Part of what it means to have an interfaith service project is not just to gather the organic diversity of Google together to, to clean rivers and tutor children, but
Patel: like, we help faculty shape new courses in interfaith cooperation. I just finished teaching a course at Northwestern University called Interfaith Leadership, and we're trying
What's the next chapter in the great story of American interfaith cooperation?
Connect with those who have a different identity, have interfaith dialogues.