interfaith

Personal Practice—Feb. 15, 2010

Nigeria is not neutral terrain. The Nigeria I know is the people I care about, over a dozen of whom recently gazed back at me from their seats in a hotel conference room. Muslims and Christians, women and men, participants converged from across the country, looking interested, curious, nervous. This was the final phase of a professional exchange program I'd originally helped coordinate during grad school. Public Conversation Project's own Dave Joseph invited me to co-lead a final workshop for the group here in Abuja. Topic: designing and facilitating interfaith dialogue.

The Charter for Compassion — Nov. 17, 2009

Have you ever heard of TED (not the short-lived low-cost airline brand of United Airlines)?  TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading." 

The Pastor and the Imam—Nov. 13, 2009

All of us at the Public Conversations Project were delighted to hear of the Chirac Foundation's recent 2009 award of its first-ever Prize for the Prevention of Conflicts to Pastor James Wuye and Imam Muhammed Ashafa, of Kaduna, Nigeria.  The Pastor and the Imam, as they are known, were honored for the work of their Interfaith Mediation Center toward interfaith understanding and coexistence in Nigeria.  In May, 2009, the Pastor and the Imam visited the

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