Non­fic­tion

Get­ting to the Heart of Inter­faith: The Eye-Open­ing, Hope-Filled Friend­ship of a Pas­tor, a Rab­bi and a Sheikh

Pas­tor Don Macken­zie, Rab­bi Ted Fal­con, and Sheikh Jamal Rahman
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By – September 9, 2011
These three authors reflect the hopes of so many peo­ple through­out the world. When will we learn to respect and even tran­scend our reli­gious dif­fer­ences in a way that ends war and divi­sion? How can we mature in our faith through expo­sure to oth­er reli­gions with­out los­ing or demean­ing our own? These authors coura­geous­ly address those who are indif­fer­ent or even opposed to such inter­com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Each spir­i­tu­al leader shares his per­son­al sto­ry of learn­ing tol­er­ance through meet­ing and under­stand­ing sim­i­lar­i­ties, and dis­cuss­es what he wants oth­ers to know about his faith that will yield a shar­ing spir­it. No top­ic is off-lim­its, par­tic­u­lar­ly the ones that nor­mal­ly add to dis­sen­sion rather than uni­ty. The book con­cludes with dis­cus­sion ques­tions that are designed to pro­duce mean­ing­ful learn­ing, shar­ing, appre­ci­a­tion of all faiths, and deep­en­ing of one’s own faith as well.
Deb­o­rah Schoen­e­man, is a for­mer Eng­lish teacher/​Writing Across the Cur­ricu­lum Cen­ter Coor­di­na­tor at North Shore Hebrew Acad­e­my High School and coed­i­tor of Mod­ern Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture: A Library of Lit­er­ary Crit­i­cism, Vol. VI, pub­lished in 1997.

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