It is finished. The battle is over. Yesterday, January 12, 2019 I put my book "Dialogue in Diversity--- Christians in Conversation with a Multi-faith World" out into the world. It has been a slow process, and am thoroughly glad it is over. That being said, I now feel trepidation at putting it out for all …
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St. Francis of Assisi and his trip to Cairo to meet with Sultan al Kamil is a very interesting chapter in a very ugly story (the Crusades). Part of what I like about it is that it involves dialogue between two people who were passionate about what they believed, while still being able to respect …
A presentation of various rules, principles, guidelines, or attitudes that inform effective interreligious or interfaith dialogue.
Each year in my Dialogue with Asian Relgions class, I have my students visit a local mosque. I also have them visit the Sikh temple and the Budhist temple. And sometimes other places are visited. The Sikh temple has been the favorite so far. But I especially want them to visit the mosque and the …
A section of my book "Dialogue in Diversity." The first very rough draft is basically complete and will be reviewed by my students in "Interreligious Dialogue class. According to Martin Buber: “The presupposition of genuine dialogue is not that the partners agree beforehand to relativize their own convictions, but that they accept each other as …
Years ago I had a long discussion with a member of the Bahai faith. It was interesting in many ways, but also rather frustrating. The individual would like to say that all religions in essence agree with each other-- that all religions give the same answers. He would say that, and I would point out …
"“Dialogue has to be about the question of truth, even if no agreement about the truth can be reached. For consensus is not the goal of the dialogue. . . . If two people say the same thing, one of them is superfluous. In the interfaith dialogue which has to do with what is of vital and absolute …
David Hesselgrave, in his book "Communicating Christ Cross-culturally," has an interesting figure in Chapter 9 called "The Contextualization Continuum." Here is a version of it. I find the figure interesting in some ways, and even useful. However, there are some aspects of it I disagree with. 1. One part of the figure I disagreed with …
I have recently, finally, started working on my book on Inter-religious Dialogue (IRD). I should not have been so slow. I will be teaching the course starting in October (2018). This is the third time I have taught the course, but this will be the first time with my own text. I hope to have …
I teach a class in Inter-religious Dialogue (IRD). Since I am a Missions professor at an Evangelical missionally-minded seminary, I like to challenge the notion that IRD is anti-evangelistic. IRD is not preaching (1-way communication to change someone's mind) or apologetics (2-way communication to change someone's mind). IRD focuses on understanding, but I point out …